The Girl Can't Help it!
I lied! I can't help it! Look what showed up on the pole in our back yard. How could I not post that?
Not only that, but my all-time favorite Warbler also did a fly by and stopped to check out an orange slice that some other bird had hoisted up into the tree. (I left that orange slice on a plate near the ground and still can't figure out who dragged it up to that branch! This is a Cape May Warbler.
And then this little Sweetie showed up and got me all confused. After much pondering, and looking at several different pictures, I decided it was a Vireo. 
He was bright, bright yellow under the throat and on the chest.
Next post will be on the new afghan knitting project, I promise!!
5 comments:
I'm sure intrigued.
It looks like a little warbler - (hermit?)-
we don't have many warblers around here. I did see a yellow rumped warbler up on the snake river once.
I need to do some serious bird watching. Next time I'm coming with you!
Hi, Pamela,
You are so kind to always visit regularly! I was torn on that little yellow guy between Pine Warbler and yellow throated vireo. The books suggest that the vireo is recognizable because of spectacles. (Although the pine warbler has a line above its eye and a slight circle too. Breast is dimly streaked - back unstreaked. What do you think?)
Pamela,
I 've just been lucky - I'm usually a terrible bird watcher - we don't have any leaves on the trees yet this year, so it has been easier than usual!
Bird pictures are lovely and the birds in your garden are so pretty, not a bit like the awful Magpies I get in mine scaring everything in sight!
I think you are right. It's the yellow throated vireo.
I saw a yellow warbler on my walk yesterday. Just as soon as I say I never see any -- then ta da.
I think I'm going to start saying all sorts of birds I never see.
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