Yellow-rumped Warbler

[MHW <pooder at xmission dot com>]

Fellow Birders:

Well, sometimes I'm a bit slow, but I've been struggling to identify a 
bird that has been visiting my yard all winter here in the East 
Millcreek area.  I initially thought it was a vireo, Cassin's or 
White-eyed, and had a hard time getting a good look at it.  Today, with 
all the rain and the bird hanging out under a grape arbor for several 
hours, I've been able to get a much better look.  (At least when the 
Robin isn't chasing it away.)

After carefully looking through Sibley's Guide and ruling out most any 
other similarly sized and colored birds, it appears to be a 
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's variety.  The yellow crown gives it 
away.  But, the thing is, Sibley indicates it as a Summer visitor, not 
winter or year-round.  I searched through the past 1 1/2 years of 
birdnet/birdtalk that I have filled away on the bottom-less hard-drive, 
and found a bunch of your sightings of the Yellow-rumped Warbler.  Most 
of the birdnet/birdtalk sightings have been during May through October.  
As I say, this bird has been visiting my yard all winter.  Albeit, only 
a single bird, but it's here every few days, at least.  Have others of 
you seen this Warbler species year-round?  If not, maybe this is a first...

Say, if you have not visited Ted Steinke's Bald Eagle photos, that 
Milton posted about earlier today, at: 
http://utahbirds.org/featarts/BaldEagles.htm, they are quite good and 
worth having a look-see.

Yup, birdin's great!

Matthew


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