Spit - Sat April 27 - Blue Grosbeak, White-Eyed Vireo
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Spit - Sat April 27 - Blue Grosbeak, White-Eyed Vireo

rickeckley

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The White-Eyed Vireo remains in the wet woods. Actually,  I strongly believe there are 2 of them.  I saw one and ID'd it very clearly and it had another bird with it, working in tandem, that looked identical in all the ways I could see.  I could not make a certain ID on the second bird, but what else might it be when it looked so very similar?

Also, the Blue Grosbeak is still at the Spit.  It was in plain view for quite a while in the sand on the Lake side of the new Visitors Centre around 2:30.  It then flew off toward the Wet Woods. It seems to be a male, not a female as earlier reported.

As for the rest of what I saw, you can check the other report from American Redstart in an earlier post, which I added to.

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A Blue-headed Vireo looks similar.  There are a few around now.  They are a bit bigger, have no yellow on the head, and from my recollection, tend to move more slowly.  (I haven't seen a White-eyed in a few years, but it seems to me they've almost as active as a kinglet.) Their song is also completely different.  

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