It is often during an ongoing period of drizzling spring precipitation that I notice a yellowish male pine warbler on the ground, among the juncos pecking at the sunflower chips below the hanging bird feeders.
Pine warblers, when they arrive early April, go largely unnoticed because their appearance so closely resembles the winter plumage of our goldfinches. But these migrating small birds just up from the Deep South have a slightly greener tinge than our now molting male yellow finches that remind us of “wild canaries.”
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