Participant Photo: Rare visit by a Yellow-throated Warbler

For the last three years, I have had brief visits by a Yellow-throated Warbler at this time of the year — for all I know it could be the same bird. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, these visits began respectively on March 24th, April 14th, and April 1st. The bird appeared at my feeders for only three or four days and then was gone. I keep track of the dates so that I can refer to them in order to watch for visits from birds that spend such short amounts of time around my feeders. It pays off. I was giving extra attention to my feeders since the latter part of March in hopes that the warbler would come back for another visit, and just over a week later, there it was.