A.W.Birder: Always on the lookout for fine birds...: Yellow-rumped Warbler

Sunday, 16 February 2014

Yellow-rumped Warbler

It's been a busy week at work so today was the first chance I got to get up to Durham for the Yellow-rumped Warbler that's been about for a few weeks (but only became available last Sunday). The bird appears to be a first winter male Myrtle Warbler. Will be worth another look if it can be tempted to hang around for another couple of months!

The bird was easy to find, as it was coming to a set of bird-feeders put out to stop people looking into gardens and hopefully make the bird easier to connect with, this worked very well. Unfortunately it was mainly a case of looking into the sun so I didn't get any decent shots - a couple of poor record shots below. The bird did show well though and was quite vocal and easy to pick up on call. First time I've seen one of these since I was in Costa Rica.