That was my conclusion as well. The bill is wrong for an OC and matches
the MACW. The pink legs and the whitish broken eye ring clinched it for me.

Tom


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:15 PM, <birdmarymoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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