Somehow mouse on my laptop jumped down to the "send" button by mistake. So see
below about several other sightings of Yellow-throated Warblers if interested.
One particularly easy to see yesterday at River Bend on the Trace.
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:06 AM
To: MISSBIRD
Subject: [missbird] Yellow-throated Warblers
I had my first Yellow-throated Warbler singing at Noxubee refuge last Friday,
March 18, but didn't have time to try to locate it and get a look at it. Terry
and I together were able to locate what was probably the same bird the next day
and get a look at it. On Sunday afternoon, March 20, we had one singing along
the entrance road to Columbus lock and dam. Jeff Harris got to see that one
also and found another one on Section Line Rd in Columbus later that afternoon
and then 2 more at Noxubee refuge even later that day.
Yesterday I had to make a trip to Jackson and drove down the Natchez Trace and
stopped a couple of places just quickly listening to birds and heard
Yellow-throated Warblers in 4 different locations. At River Bend north of
Jackson-Ridgeland (mile marker 123), there were two of them singing back and
forth, and one of them was easy for me to see as it foraged in low branches of
a tree near the first parking area there near the Pearl River. They are
strikingly beautiful birds with a beautiful song, and I was glad to see they
are evidently being successful in many locations.
Marion Schiefer, Starkville area
