Hi everyone, I had a rather surprising first-parulid-of-year-in-Sapsucker Woods just now: a PALM WARBLER. I saw the bird in the clump of alder shrubs/trees through which the boardwalk cuts, leading to the platform over the water to the south of Kip's Barn (the big white barn north of the Lab of O building). I only briefly saw the bird, seconds after my attention was drawn to a warbler chip note. The bird flew up at about eye level and while I only had maybe 2 seconds of clear view (half of that wasted while my brain processed the fact that I was not looking at a Yellow-rumped Warbler), I'm reasonably confident that it was a brown-form Palm Warbler. I think that I heard the bird chipping nearby subsequently just to the west of the boardwalk, so it might linger in this general area for a while.
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