Saw my first fall-migration warbler in the dense vegetation skirting the perimeter
of the hospital parking lot. When pushing someone in a wheelchair there is very little
respite from the dreary halls of a hospital without venturing outside looking for a
lifeline of green space. Designers never considered an indoor closed-circuit parambulatorium,
let alone a path through greenery outside the premises because doing so might result in fewer
$16.00 a day parking spots. The parking lot is mostly empty on a holiday and that allowed
me to push the wheelchair close to the woods and low-and-behold, a fleeting glimpse of a warbler.
Just then, the only moving car in the whole lot drives by to the exit barrier thus spooking the
warbler. Then the driver realizes that the barrier is non-operational and backs up for a second
pass just as the warbler returned only to send it away completely. Didn't get a really good look
at it but I'm guessing it was either a juvenile Magnolia or a Nashville, probably the former.
No other moving car appeared during the whole excursion because no other bird was sighted.
