After an early evening meeting at City Hall there was still daylight, so I biked to Stewart Park. Ann Mitchell wrote that she had seen a Yellow-rumped Warbler at the Swan Pond this morning, so I looked very carefully. I kept hearing a vague trill, always from the opposite side. Finally on my second circuit I found a warbler, but instead it was a Palm Warbler, perched in bushes beside the lake, bobbing its tail constantly. Although the light was getting poor, I could see a yellow wash all below, strongest on the throat through upper central breast, but the markings on the side of the breast did not seem rufous, so I don't know whether it qualifies as Eastern. Some years I have had trouble tracking down a Palm Warbler, so I feel particularly fortunate finding an apparent year first for the basin.
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