Hi Jim,
It sounds like it might be a Pine warbler:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id ;
<https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id>
Does that look like your bird?
Lewis Barnett
blbarnett3@xxxxxxxxx
On Jan 30, 2017, at 2:06 PM, James Blowers <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just saw an unusual bird in our back yard. It had a brilliantly yellow
head, epaulettes on its wing (I think 3 of them), and looked sort of like a
sparrow in its back area.
It is not a goldfinch because its head was brilliantly yellow (a goldfinch at
this time of the year would be a dull yellow) and because it had no black cap.
It is not a female Baltimore oriole because they inhabit mostly coastal areas
at this time of the year (or did one stray a two-hour drive from the beach?).
It is not a yellow warbler because they are in Mexico and farther south at
this time of the year – here it is a summer bird.
So what is it?
Jim Blowers
