Barb - I may well be wrong, but that looks more like a female MacGillivray's
Warbler to me. The bill looks quite long and heavy, and appears pale at the
base. It seems to show a distinct broken eye ring. The legs look pink.
The gray on the head appears to form a fairly distinct hood, while the rest
of the body seems quite yellow below. These all add up more to MACW in my
view.

MacGillivray's would be very unusual at this time of year in Washington
State, however.

Does anyone else want to go out on the same limb as myself?

== Michael Hobbs
== www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
== BirdMarymoor at frontier.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Deihl
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 4:46 PM
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Backyard Warbler ID? - 2/10/14

I put out a tub of "Bark Butter" (suet dough) on a table in my backyard - it
was old and I wanted to see if any critters would be interested in eating
any. First to scrape away at it were squirrels and/or rats (tooth marks
were the telltale signs). Then last week, I started seeing this warbler
feed only from this tub, never on any of my other hanging feeders. A
ruby-crowned Kinglet has been nearby, on 'regular' suet feeders
simultaneously with this yellow-green warbler. With some help from some
bird guide books, internet images and a WildBirds Unltd employee, I am
pretty certain this bird is an Orange-crowned Warbler. Not sure about that
though, so I'm enlisting your help. Also would like to know whether it is
female or male. I think it is an adult...

If any of you is interested in trying for a sighting in my yard, of this
warbler, contact me and we can arrange something - it has seemed to be
around mostly in late morning, noonish, or in the afternoon, both early or
mid-. I haven't really monitored it much, but each time I have walked
through the yard, I seem to have seen it. Today, upon deciding to try to
photograph it, I went out there and immediately, the little bird flew in and
started pecking at the suet. After I had taken a half-dozen shots, and put
away my camera, the bird left...

Here are some photos (a few, fairly heavily-cropped) - full disclosure !
Actually, the most-cropped one looks a lot like an acrylic painting, so I
guess it would fall in the category of nature art as opposed to nature
photography? Yes, I've just been doing that Audubon survey that Trileigh
Tucker posted - VERY provocative - I'm still trying to sort through what I
think and where I draw my own personal line.

So, the link to my OC (or?) pics: "OC Warbler, Bark Butter & Unrelated
Shelf Fungus" - 2/10/14:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjSe9pgr


Barb Deihl

North Matthews Beach - NE Seattle

barbdeihl at comcast.net


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