[NatureNS] BELL'S VIREO in Spryfield

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:33:17 -0300
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All:

The BELL'S VIREO was still present at ca. 11:00 in the morning  
showers, at the bottom of the path across from the Thornhill Drive  
Baptist church leading down to  the green "valley." It was first  
spotted by Fulton Lavender at my side in the multiflora rose thickets  
immediately to the right (south) of the bottom of that path. After a  
couple of minutes it disappeared into impenetrable foliage further to  
the right along the green "valley."

I don't know if it has been mentioned before, but it is clearly of the  
eastern subspecies _bellii_, with brighter greenish and yellow plumage  
and more limited tail pumping than characterize the  s.w. subspecies.  
More photos to document this subspecies would be useful.

Cheers, Ian

Ian McLaren


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