FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] G-W Warbler-Great Falls 9/01/03

[Dendroica@xxxxxxx]

What a way to wrap a great warbler weekend!  At about 4 PM today, I found a 
female Golden-Winged Warbler foraging in my overgrown perennial garden.  I 
observed that it had yellow wingbars and cap and a dark face patch outlined in 
white before it flew across the lawn into a tree where it joined a foraging 
Magnolia warbler.  I slowly approached the tree and was able to get excellent 
views 
of its gray throat patch, its white undersides and a hint of yellow on the 
upper breast.  It was probably a first fall bird, not unlike the first fall 
female illustrated in Peterson's Warblers Field Guide.
Earlier in the afternoon, a Northern Warbler, displaying its finely-striped 
throat, investigated the length of the artificial stream I have connecting a 
couple of bird pools. Other warblers in the yard today were species I have 
previously reported this fall--Tennessee, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, 
Blackburian, 
Black-and-White, Redstart, Ovenbird, Wilson's and Canada. Some I believe are 
holdovers.

A walk through Riverbend Park meadow this morning produced at least nine 
previously reported warbler species, but not the Mourning Warbler seen 
yesterday 
by the Winters. There were also Scarlet Tanagers, Baltimore Orioles, 
Yellow-billed Cuckoos (one calling incessantly for at least 2 hours), and 
Pewees among 
today's migrants.  

Ralph Wall
Great Falls, VA



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