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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: winz on May 15, 2016, 02:14:40 PM

Title: Backyard warbler
Post by: winz on May 15, 2016, 02:14:40 PM

This is the first warbler that I have seen in my backyard.  Is it a Magnolia Warbler?

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/26964606431_3cb61f7a81_z.jpg)

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Backyard warbler
Post by: Pat Hodgson on May 15, 2016, 02:17:54 PM

Yes - the dark tip of the underside of the tail is diagnostic.  This bird is not in full breeding plumage, maybe a <1 year old bird.

Title: Re: Backyard warbler
Post by: winz on May 15, 2016, 02:39:04 PM

Thanks Pat.  I was at Lake Wabukayne this morning and saw one there.

Is this a breeding plumage male?

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7655/26939362612_901e23cd49_z.jpg)

Title: Re: Backyard warbler
Post by: Pat Hodgson on May 15, 2016, 08:40:58 PM

That one looks like a female, male would have larger/brighter white patch in wing and solid black mask all the way from the bill to the back of the head.

Title: Re: Backyard warbler
Post by: Drpepper on May 17, 2016, 01:08:07 AM

Lake Wabukayne is a great place for birding right now. Lots of birds in the area! Do you have feeders up to attract the warbler into your backyard?

Title: Re: Backyard warbler
Post by: winz on May 17, 2016, 06:46:13 AM

Quote from: "Drpepper"

Lake Wabukayne is a great place for birding right now. Lots of birds in the area! Do you have feeders up to attract the warbler into your backyard?

I have tube feeders with seeds and peanuts and a hopper feeder with Black Oil sunflower seeds.  Nothing really to attract warblers in particular.  It landed in my Corkscrew Willow tree and gleaned a few insects before taking off.  I thought it was just another American Goldfinch, but quickly realized it wasn't  :D