MacGillivray's Warbler this afternoon

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Posted by Toe on 21:58:43 11/30/12

I watched and heard it from 4:00 - 5:00 this afternoon, never moving more that 30 feet from the same spot, and yet it never allowed me to take a photo despite getting pretty decent looks with the binocs. What a sneaky little bird; it makes Swainson's Warblers seem easy! It seems to prefer the thick brushy area just to the right of the berm just before the stand of Australian Pines. It called repeatedly. To me the call sounds like a more liquid and higher-pitched version of the Black-throated Blue's tap, but given in a series of double notes: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap....


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