Saturday morning, Nov. 28, on the Chemung Valley Audubon Society field trip along the Chemung River in downtown Elmira, we caught three glimpses of a warbler which, after considering other possibilities and pooling what we had seen on our very brief sightings, concluded was a Yellow Warbler. I found the bird for one more brief, but good viewing Sunday afternoon at about 4 p.m. Because of the apparent lack of streaks and wingbars, I think that the bird is an immature female. The only field mark to go with the pale yellow underparts and greenish upperparts is the prominent yellowish eye-ring. All of the sightings were in Riverfront Park, along East Water Street and east of the Clemens Center Parkway. The bird was first seen diving into a Yew hedge. Then it was seen in the middle of a leafless Paper Birch. Yesterday, we last saw it about 15 feet from the top of a 50-foot evergreen -- a Douglas-fir, I think. Sunday, it was foraging in the group of Red Pines immediately east of the Clemens Center Parkway bridge. This probably constitutes the latest sighting of a Yellow Warbler in Chemung County.
Other highlights of the trip were a Common Raven, a Cooper's Hawk, an adult Bald Eagle, an immature Bald Eagle, and a male American Black Duck paired with an wing-injured female Mallard. -- Bill Ostrander -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
