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["Bob Reilly" <rjreilly@xxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Nashville warblers are are only here in migration and are always uncommon, 
i.e., a certain amount of luck is required, and you're very unlikely to see 
more than one at a time.  No chance of confusing one with a goldfinch or 
yellow-rump if seen in binocs, nor of having one visit your feeders on 
purpose.

Bob

P.S. No straightforward accounting for common names.  Got to go to the 
southwest to see Virginia's warbler etc.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Blowers" <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Nashville warbler at 1st Landing State 
park this morning


> We've been getting a lot of catbirds, too. There were four at one time
> near our feeder. They were feeding on our suet, preventing a downy
> woodpecker from getting there. The catbirds had handsome dark gray
> markings and a sprightly tail-up posture reminding me of the other
> mimids, mockingbirds and thrashers. I didn't know that the catbirds were
> getting banded. I will have to look for bands in the birds in our back
> yard.
>
> The strangest part about Nashville warblers is that they are not from
> Nashville! At least according to my bird book, the region around
> mid-Tennessee is white.  We had been getting yellow-rumped warblers, and
> more recently a goldfinch, but I wonder if some of these could be the
> Nashville warbler instead.
>
> Jim Blowers
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Reilly
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> Subject: [va-richmond-general] Nashville warbler at 1st Landing State
> park this morning
>
>
> Heard and got an excellent look at a beautiful Nashville warbler at 1st
> Landing State Park this morning.  The place was overrun with catbirds!
> Banded 16 this morning.  A yellow-crowned night heron was hanging around
> the
> station all morning and was observed choking down a large crab.
>
> Bob Reilly
>
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