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Pine Warbler
Pine Warbler

Featured Image Credit: “male pine warbler” by Patricia Pierce is licensed under CC BY 2.0

To hear songs, learn identification information, migratory patterns, and some fun facts, check out the Pine Warbler page offered by one of my favorite resources: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology »

I just spotted a female Pine Warbler yesterday (the 2nd of February) sitting on the windowsill eating a seed. From what I understand, they overwinter a bit south of here (very southern Virginia and into the Carolina’s etc) but right when early February rolls around they return to just north of their wintering range – which is basically right where I am. Cool! I wonder if she had just arrived.

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