[obol] Another Tennessee Warbler ... in Benton County

[Alan Contreras]

At Malheur we were seeing every conceivable form of Orange-crown, but the
proportion of gray-headed birds was pretty high.

The Tennessee could blend in pretty well with the Orange-crowns in shaded
spots, but when it came out in the sun, it was a different shade of green -
grass green instead of moss green? - and the breast was a purer yellow
trailing down the flanks a bit, with white under the tail and up between the
legs.  The face had more of an eyeline and less of that Orange-crowny
eye-crescent look.  But a very subtle set of differences.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
acontrer at mindspring.com


> From: Joel Geier <jgeier at attglobal.net>
> Reply-To: <jgeier at attglobal.net>
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:55:38 -0700
> To: Oregon Birders OnLine <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
> Subject: [obol] Another Tennessee Warbler ... in Benton County
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> Doug Robinson reported a TENNESSEE WARBLER at the Vanderpool Tract
> (Willamette River) greenway in NE Benton County this morning. Joe
> Fontaine was able to see the bird later on (around noon).
> 
> This makes at least four Tennessee Warblers in the state this week,
> including the one Bill Tice found at Suttle Lake (Jefferson Co.) and the
> one along Antone Rd. (Wheeler Co.) over the weekend, plus at least one
> at Malheur NWR (Harney Co.) reported by Daniel Farrar et al. Seems to me
> there was one reported somewhere else -- around PDX? It might be worth
> checking all those "Orange-crowned" Warblers closely.
> 
> It's also interesting that unusually high numbers of migrant OCWAs were
> seen over the weekend in east/central Oregon. I was seeing a fairly high
> proportion of "gray-headed" OCWAs in Wheeler Co. Was that the pattern
> elsewhere these flocks were encountered?
> 
> Good birding,
> Joel
> 
> --
> Joel Geier
> jgeier at attglobal.net
> 
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