Outdoor Ontario
Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Napper on August 15, 2023, 04:32:51 PM
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Today activity really picked up at the Feeder, Chickadee's up to 8 at a time, RB and WB Nuthatches plus a Downy Wood pecker. I noticed movement in our small White Pine tree and I snapped a bunch of Pics. after I found my camera.
I thought it might be a Kinglet but it has no colour underneath and it has stripes. I looked all over the place but I Can't find a match. Tanks in advance
(https://iili.io/HDgMEGV.jpg)
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I guess that it's a Cape May warbler. Having good peripheral vision is a wonderful thing. There are a lot of Cape May warblers around lately. If you could collect them all and line them up front to tail they would stretch all the way to .... well, all the way to Cape May. I had one of them in my cereal this morning just before I woke up. I think that I may have seen one just seconds before I took the picture of the juvenile Blackburnian posted in "Walk in the Park". The light was poor so I could make out the model number. I can't imagine that they were both Blackburnian. Actually there must have been a half dozen warblers but most were too high up in the unlit gloom of the canopy.
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Tanks
I would have never guessed that. We had Cape May's last summer, they had a lot more colour and blacker stripes.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cape_May_Warbler/photo-gallery/64516201
Cheers!
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Many juvenile Cape May warblers do indeed show a little more colour in late-summer or early fall but some can be quite drab, especially females. The parts that might otherwise be a pale, yellow wash, seen between the gray streaks, tends to present as merely lighter gray instead of yellow. Tell you what ... just do a net search of juvenile Cape May warbler (images only) and there will bound to be some pretty drab birds among them. I remember seeing some really drab examples at Ashbridges a few years ago. That sighting too occurred in August. The only other warbler with a face like that that might be passing through this early is a Pine warbler. The off-white discontinuous eye ring and line through the eye also resembles an juvenile Orange-crowned warbler but they wouldn't be passing through until Octoberfest, or later. I always leave a little beer out for them ever since one visited my garden. "Prost" Noch ein bier, bitte.