OK, my peeps. Let's have a fall warbler quiz! I photographed this bird a few days ago in my yard in southeastern Ohio. Yes, it's a wood warbler and it's in non-breeding plumage.You could even say it's a CFW: a Confusing Something Warbler. Or maybe the F just stands for Fall.
Please send in your best guess via the comments section below. I'll crown a winner in the next few days. The prize is bragging rights, baby.
Good luck and may the best bird watcher win!
17 comments:
I'm taking a crack at it, even though I'm terrible at CFWs: pine warbler? I've had some tricky ones here in the Black Hills, and since we're typically on the edge of migration paths, I doubt myself even more.
Looks like a Blackpoll Warbler
to me.
Hap in New Hope (MN)
Looks more like a Bay-breasted Warbler to me - warmer greenish-yellow overall than I would expect for a basic-plumaged BLPW. It also does not have any streaking below, which is good for BBWA. Lastly, there seems to be a very faint wash of buff on the sides.
-Neil G.
Oh, geez, Bill - you couldn't start with something easier?
My first guess was Pine, but after reading comments 2 & 3, I remembered the "bay-poll" warbler debates from last fall at Lake Erie.
Ugh - OK, put me down for one guess at Pine, but like the first commenter, I doubt myself.
~Kathi, the konfused
One of my birding mentors taught me "if it is yellow and you can't figure it out, it is probably a Pine Warbler".
I'm also going to call it a Bay-breasted Warbler.
Fall warbler works just fine for me.
looks like a pine warbler hey bill keep posting quiz birds keeps me studying thanks for your efforts
CFWs, the nemesis of bird watchers!
I'm gonna guess Bay-breasted Warbler because its legs appear darker than a Blackpoll Warbler's would be.
chestnut sided???????? with all the years, i still am not fond of fall warbs
Can I just say Baypoll Warbler? :)
I'd have to go with Bay-breasted Warbler.
Definitely a Bay-breasted
Definitely a warbler. ;o)
And the winner IS Neil Gilbert!
This is a bay-breasted warbler.
Thanks to all who played.
I'll post a fuller answer and explanation soon.
More ID Quiz Birds coming, too.
Aw gee, too late for the prize! Well, that, and the fact that I figured pine warbler too... Oops.
Great feature--keep 'em coming!
Very beautiful bird. Nice photo. :)))
One of three; I guess Blackpoll But a number of years ago my brother was banding birds on monomy point with two Phd Ornithologist. One bird in particular the two ornithologists were sure of their identification—yet they disagreed. My brother picked the third, A Blackpoll. This individual was hand held. Next spring the individual was caught again and turned out to be a Blackpoll.
So it goes. Who really know. But I am bidding on the Blackpoll.
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