[mou] Otterail warblers & a puzzling one

[Jeff and Amy Drake]

I'll start with the puzzle.  The bird was in a grassy area/pasture within a 1/4 mile of water.  It seemed to be about waterthrush size, had the whitish, striped sides & eye stripe of the waterthrush or oven bird but had a rusty cap like a palm warbler and distinctly yellow chin/throat area and under the rump (not quite as bright as the yellow warbler in those areas but close).  Any ideas?  I really can't seem to find any matches in my bird book.  My closest guess is the "western" palm warbler but it seemed larger and the sides were more heavily striped.  I don't remember if it bobbed it's tail or not.  Any ideas?  I may try to relocate it this weekend.

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We found a nice bunch of warblers on Sunday in our area  (our yard & a side-road somewhere along Dead Lake).  Not too many species but a great many individuals - particularily the 1st two on the list.

palm (not at all afraid of the car, we were afraid we'd run them over!)
yellow-rumped
yellow
Wilson's
redstarts
ruby crowned kinglets


also:
solitary sandpiper (FOY:  1, of course)
coots
northern shovelers
mallards
wood ducks
canada geese
common tern
Forster's tern
ring-billed gulls
red winged blackbirds (females here too)
Brewer's blackbird (FOY)
grackles
starlings
crows
horned larks
baltimore orioles
northern waterthrush (2, FOY)
barn swallows
tree swallows
loons
cardinals
blue jays (8! in our yard at once)
mourning doves
song sparrows
chipping sparrows
white-throated sparrows
clay-colored sparrows
Harris' sparrows (FOY - Tues. morning)
house sparrows
robins
bluebirds
ovenbird
rose-breasted grosbeaks (FOY)
goldfinches
house finches
purple finches
chickadees
yellow-shafted flicker
downy woodpeckers
hairy woodpeckers
white-breasted nuthatches
red-breasted nuthatch
red tailed hawks
turkey vultures
kestrels


Amy Drake
Richville, MN (Ottertail county)
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