Tough bird to find in Scott Notes from my ebird report:
Singing male. Trilling first heard and initially thought it was a chipping sparrow, so I continued onto the water to scope waterfowl. On way back I played the pine warbler tape to make sure and did some phishing. There is a short oak tree near the pines where I saw the yellow rumps. I continued to phish and then saw the pine warbler. Yellow warbler with muted blackish wings and clear white wing bars. Got a great look at its bright yellow split eye ring. I tried to get photo but could not with my small camera I use for digi-scoping. It eventually flew back up to the pines. I was able to see it clearly with my binoculars and knew it could not be a different warbler species such as yellow, orange-crowned, or non-breeding blackpoll or bay-breasted. It did not call while feeding on the oak tree Directions: From main lot walk the asphalt road 500 yard to wide grassy opening on left.. Follow the trail towards the water until seeing the last stand of pines on the right.. When I got back to lot, I heard more trilling on the spruces near the lot, but I had to get back to work so I did not investigate. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
