[NatureNS] Vireo or Warbler sp.?

Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:01:58 -0400
From: Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca>
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Foraging along with a female N. (Baltimore) Oriole in our apple trees 
this a.m. was an un-IDed vireo or warbler.  We had only a few quick 
looks at it, thus it's mystery status.  It was very small, had no 
wing-bars, green back, white breast but pale yellow on upper breast, 
darker stripe through the eye with white supercilium.  Although when I 
first saw it I thought 'Red-eyed Vireo', it was too pale overall, too 
small, head did not seem grey and the yellow on the upper breast said 
'NOT a Red-eyed Vireo.  Weren't able to get a good look at the beak, or 
the undertail coverts.  It was moving slower than most warbler species, 
which made us think of vireos.  We are vacillating between a 
Philadelphia Vireo and a Tennessee Warbler.  Any suggestions?

Lois Codling
L. Sackville

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