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Date: | Fri, 10 May 2013 14:18:57 -0600 |
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This morning (Friday, May 10) between 10:30 a.m. and noon, three companions
and I had excellent views of a singing male Yellow-throated Warbler at
Whitewater State Park. The bird was in mature hardwoods and white pine
around the parking lot for the state park nature store, as well as in the
adjacent picnic area across the Whitewater River from the swimming beach.
The bird was white on the belly with a bright yellow upper breast and
throat, with distinct black markings on the sides of the yellow throat and
breast. It was gray on the back and crown, with a black facial patch, a
white patch behind the black patch, and a distinct white line over the eye.
It had two white wing bars. Its song was atypical of this species, although
somewhat reminiscent of a softer, quieter Louisiana Waterthrush song,
especially in that it ascended at the end, although it did not descend at
the beginning and middle of the song like a Louisiana Waterthrush song
would. This species was not on Bob Janssen's Whitewater State Park bird
list, so it appears to be a new species record for the park. I have seen
this species once before in 31+ years of birding in Minnesota, but numerous
times while living for 3 years in Indiana as well as while birding
elsewhere in the eastern and southern U.S. -- Dave Zumeta, Minneapolis
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