[TN-Bird] Connecticut Warbler - Robertson Co.

From: Tony Lance <tonylance@xxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 14:33:53 -0500
This afternoon, while tending bees in a friend's backyard, I had a  
Connecticut Warbler pop up within a few yards of where I was working.  
I had just finished capturing and installing a swarm I found this  
morning hanging on a tree in the backyard, and I was putting my  
things away in the shed when a nearby bird at the edge of the woods  
caught my eye. (Several others, including a couple of Swainson's  
Thrushes and a Magnolia, also seemed interested in all the buzzing  
bees flying around.) I looked and even without binoculars I could see  
it was Connecticut. Wanting better looks, I risked losing the bird to  
go to my Jeep and get my bins. When I returned he was still in the  
same area and even sang twice. He then hung around for nearly 30  
minutes, occasionally plucking caterpillars from the undersides of  
leaves, giving me some of my best looks ever at this species. This  
sighting is notable for me for several reasons. Although I've seen  
more than a dozen Connecticuts, having lived on the East Coast for  
the past 20 years this is the first one I've seen in the spring (they  
appear there only in the fall), and the first time I've heard their  
song, which at least in this case was surprisingly soft and  
inconspicuous. What's more, this is one of the few adult birds I've  
seen. A swarm of bees and a Connecticut in the same day—it doesn't  
get any better than that!

Tony Lance
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