Hello,

About 4:00 this afternoon I saw an Orange-crowned Warbler out my back
window, in the next pine tree over from where I saw it 3 weeks ago.  I'm
assuming this is the same bird as before--I am so happy it survived the
brutal winter weather!  This time it flew away after only 30 seconds or so,
so I wasn't able to get any photos.  But I did get my binoculars on it, and
observed the exact same coloration as before--olive-yellow overall, no
wingbars, faint streaking on breast blending into bright yellow undertail
coverts (very bright with the low-level sunlight), the grayer head and light
supercilium.  It was feeding just as energetically as it was during the
snowstorm on Feb.13th when I last saw it.  Definitely a hardy bird.  I've
had suet out there for about 2 1/2 weeks now, but not a single bird has
touched it as far as I can tell.  There are a lot of houses around and I can
see why not many birds forage around here.  That just makes an
Orange-crowned Warbler sighting here seem so much more unusual and out of
place.  But who am I to tell a bird where he/she should and shouldn't go!!

-Nate Nye
Hilliard, OH

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