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    I joined my friend Lauren Blyth for some gray, drizzly, birding this morning at Highbanks Metro-park (located on route 23 just south of Polaris Pkwy, powell road). We walked the dirt dog-path trail I guess it is, that heads east from the nature center. We found large foraging flocks of the usual species plus a lot of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS and a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARB. Also here and there were groups of both RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. Sparrows included White-throated and Song Sparrows. So we get done with this path and I'm leaving the nature center when right there in the shrubby area where all the house sparrows hang out, up pops an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. It was hanging out in the Golden-rod that was right in front of the bushes. It flew towards the trash can on the end and I followed where I then got very close views of it and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet picking at the Golden Rod. I had great looks, it was a very gray looking bird overall, wit faint streaks at the sides of the breast, dark eye line, split whitish eye-ring with slightly lighter eyebrow - only barely noticable, with nice yellow undertail coverts, and of course the shorter pointy bill. It was pretty cool, and typical - after walking all that way, of course right when you get back to the car is when you see what you were looking for, haha. 



       Good Birding, 

               - Ben Warner

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