[TN-Bird] Re: Mystery warbler

After several helpful replies and some sleep, l feel fairly confident that the 
bird is a hatch year male common yellowthroat.  The plumage is a good match.  
While observing the bird, it seemed larger, less chuncky, the bill was too 
long...it just didn't have the right shape for a common yellowthroat.   
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan and Laurie Mooney 
  To: TNBIRDS 
  Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:47 PM
  Subject: [TN-Bird] Mystery warbler


  We get a fair number of 'confusing fall warblers'  in our yard each year.  
The water feature we installed 6 years ago generally lets us get pretty good 
looks so that we can identify 99% of what shows up.  Today we had a visitor I 
do not recognize.  It may well be a first fall Kentucky warbler, but some of 
the field marks are absent.  I did manage to get a few pictures of the bird.   
They can be seen at: http://www.birdnerds.com/Yardbirds/uknwarbler/index.htm

  These are photos straight from the camera, not cropped or edited in any way.

  The lack of yellow in the lores, supercilium, and around and behind the eyes 
bothers me.  The amount of black and gray above the eye is also bothersome.  A 
few of the pictures also show a brown crown patch.

  Confused in Knoxville
  Dan Mooney

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