I have a line-up of posts I can’t wait to get to you but I wanted to drop this quick one due to its radical nature.

Two awesome discoveries last night to accompany an overall great night of birding the Serengeti region of Lime Hollow Nature Center.  The first was an American Woodcock egg that had been pecked and eaten. It was about as cryptic as the parent.  Then, as I was heading to my car, bee buzz buzz buzz –I was like no friggen way…Golden-winged Warbler two years in a row on the property.  The bird popped up about 10 feet from me and wouldn’t you know it, it was a Brewster’s Warbler.  This Blue-winged Golden-winged hybrid exhibits dominant features from each species.  The bright yellow cap of the GW, the dark eye-stripe of the BW, and a little wing bar from each… two distinguishable gold wingbars opposed to the two white wingbars of BW and ’solid’ gold wingbar of GW.  A rather sharp bird.

So i figure this to be a “quazzi Life Bird” in the same veign as Oregon-race Juncos.

I’ll post some more details on this “genetics in action” case in the near future.

If you live in the northeast, and you don’t bird every day, try not to think of all the birds you might have missed.

Ry