Winter Warblers

[Steve Hood]

These were from Sedgewick Forest in Oakville this morning.  My first warblers of the year.  


Yellow Warbler?


Nashville Warbler

[Rotarran]

Wow that's unbelievable that warblers are there in the middle of winter.  Does anyone know if Sedgewick park has always been a good place for overwintering warblers (due to the nearby water treatment plant I'm guessing) or is this something of a recent phenomenon that these birds just discovered?  Or is it a place that birders just discovered?

[Steve Hood]

This was my first time going there but I see that there have been online reports of winter Warblers at this location since at least 2009.  There were reports of a Tennessee Warbler this past week so that probably gathered more interest than usual.

[thouc]

Your first bird is the Tennessee Warbler. It's more yellow than usual, but greenish back, strong line over eye and white undertail coverts are diagnostic.

/Thomas

[Steve Hood]

Thanks Thomas.  I didn't have any clear shots of the undertail and I wasn't sure about the line over the eye.

[thouc]

Great pictures too, I was there today and the warblers weren't exactly posing, mostly hiding in the thickets and very difficult to get a clear view of. I spotted Nashville, Tennessee, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped. Missed the Wilson's.