Sitting at my office window looking at the many Ruby-Crowned Kinglets,
Yellow-Rumps, nuthatches and others - when a bird I first took as a
kinglet landed on a branch not 10 feet from me. Several chickadees
were at the feeder but this bird was not interested in seed. It was
much calmer than a kinglet and with its back to me, it seemed less
greenish as it was grayish and uniformly so - no chevrons or marks on
the wing. It hop turned to face me and its belly and flanks were pale
yellow - clearly yellow. It was yellow on the breast also and there
was a faint "necklace" of broken vertical streaks. A comparison with
a kinglet that landed nearby was distinctly different save for the eye-
ring. I had it as a Nashville at first reaction before I could really
look at it as it seemed that size and composure but the head, back and
belly were just off and paler - and then there was the necklace. I
only had about 5 seconds of close scrutiny before it fled. It was
branch hopping - not on the ground.
I ran about the house window to window trying to find it and even ran
outside but could not relocate it.
I am still vibrating at the excitement of it being an early warbler
and not a Myrtle.
Any ideas, conjecture or observations of hallucinations?
Thomas Maiello
Angel Environmental Management, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
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