This bird was here this morning. I'm guessing Yellow-rumped Warbler except that my book claims that we only have YRWs in the winter. Two weeks ago I had a Black and White Warbler though and we're only supposed to see them in the winter too. Just want to confirm. What do you think I have here?
1st of 4 bad pictures -- some just of parts!
Tail shot
Whole bird but in the deep shade.
Last one -- top of the head.
Doesn't look like Myrtle (Yellow-rumped) Warbler to me; in particular the wingbars are too bright. Almost certainly Pine Warbler.
Sibley has Black-and-white Warbler mapped as breeding in TX, so you should get those in summer.
Resin
Well, the map I was looking at for the black and white is thumbnail sized, and it looks borderline. I've never seen one in the summer before, but good to know. I haven't seen him again.
Pine Warbler eh? Good to have one back here. Hope it sticks around.
While I was looking in the book, I may have solved an old mystery. I drew a pic of a bird that I saw and I couldn't place it. I'm sitting in near darkness and my book has a pic of an immature female Cerulean Warbler that reminds me of my drawing. It might just be the darkness sapping the color out of the photo. I'll have to go look that up.
Thanks for your help!
It looks like a female Pine Warbler to me too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Warbler
edited to add the link to Bird Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/40/
This message was edited Aug 7, 2010 9:18 PM
Thanks for the links and the ID plantladylin. The wikipedia map indicates that Pine Warblers only winter here. I guess there aren't hard and fast rules for birds. Hence the orange-billed nightingale thrush in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Thanks for the links and the ID plantladylin. The wikipedia map indicates that Pine Warblers only winter here. I guess there aren't hard and fast rules for birds.
