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Looks like one but I'm not sure:

https://i.postimg.cc/brPhxFJh/warbler-01.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/HsdYz1r8/warbler-02.jpg

Jill <--- in Southern South Carolina
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:45:13 -0500, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:

Looks like one but I'm not sure:

https://i.postimg.cc/brPhxFJh/warbler-01.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/HsdYz1r8/warbler-02.jpg

Jill <--- in Southern South Carolina

They have yellow heads, both male and female.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id
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On 11/18/2024 3:28 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:45:13 -0500, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:

Looks like one but I'm not sure:

https://i.postimg.cc/brPhxFJh/warbler-01.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/HsdYz1r8/warbler-02.jpg

Jill <--- in Southern South Carolina

They have yellow heads, both male and female.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id

They mostly look yellowish-olive green to me. Not sure what this bird
is. Similar markings on the wings and beak type. Any idea?

Jill
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:12:38 -0500, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:

On 11/18/2024 3:28 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:45:13 -0500, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:

Looks like one but I'm not sure:

https://i.postimg.cc/brPhxFJh/warbler-01.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/HsdYz1r8/warbler-02.jpg

Jill <--- in Southern South Carolina

They have yellow heads, both male and female.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id

They mostly look yellowish-olive green to me. Not sure what this bird
is. Similar markings on the wings and beak type. Any idea?

Jill

Try here, maybe?

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
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On 11/18/2024 9:01 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:12:38 -0500, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:

On 11/18/2024 3:28 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:45:13 -0500, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:

Looks like one but I'm not sure:

https://i.postimg.cc/brPhxFJh/warbler-01.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/HsdYz1r8/warbler-02.jpg

Jill <--- in Southern South Carolina

They have yellow heads, both male and female.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id

They mostly look yellowish-olive green to me. Not sure what this bird
is. Similar markings on the wings and beak type. Any idea?

Jill

Try here, maybe?

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

Thanks! A local bird watcher suggested it's an Eastern Phoebe and that appears to be correct:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Phoebe/id

Jill
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jmcquown wrote:

A local bird watcher suggested it's an Eastern Phoebe and that
appears to be correct:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Phoebe/id

I'm certain that's not a Phoebe. Body shape is entirely wrong. Phoebe
has much bigger head and bill, longer tail, and not a trace of yellow,
whereas the bird in your photos has a pale but distinct wash of
yellow.

I'm inclined to go with your original guess, Pine Warbler, probably
either female or juvenile. Someone commented that they have "yellow
heads" -- and they do, sometimes. Usually in the Spring, during
breeding season. Like many other species, they adapt more subdued
colors in the Fall.

FWIW, I used Peterson's and Nat Geo's field guides to look this one
up. NG has a drawing of an immature PW that looks very much like your
bird.

Photographs of birds -- at websites, or wherever -- can be misleading,
due to lighting issues and other stuff outside the photographer's
control. I think field guides illustrated with drawings are a much
better way of id'ing birds than photographs -- but that's just me, of
course.

Nice that you got to see one, whatever it is :)
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Lane wrote:

FWIW, I used Peterson's and Nat Geo's field guides to look this one up.
NG has a drawing of an immature PW that looks very much like your bird.

Photographs of birds -- at websites, or wherever -- can be misleading,
due to lighting issues and other stuff outside the photographer's control.
I think field guides illustrated with drawings are a much better way of id'ing birds than photographs -- but that's just me, of course.

I'm inclined to concur.

I happen to have a book printed locally in 1976 that seems to cover
local avian fauna pretty well; used the drawings in there some time ago
to identify an Eurasian coot (Fulica atra L.), a species I don't think
I've ever seen before. Aside of the author's "nope, not going to delve
into that in this book" stance regarding Passeriformes, and the changes
in fauna since the book was published due to climate change, it feels
like a good enough id guide.

I've contributed several photographs of birds to Commons in the past, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Gyft_Xelz
but I generally photograph "on the go", without stopping for long in
any particular place, regardless of how conductive it might be to bird watching. As such, I've mostly been doing landscape photography for
years. (Not to mention accumulating several years worth of unuploaded
backlog due to other commitments.)

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