The report of a Brewster's Warbler at Weston Bend Saturday interests me --
particularly the fact that it was a backcross. Some will remember that I
found a 1st generation Brewster's at Weston Bend May 5, 2000 near the gas
line crossing considerably south of the toilets. The bird came in to a tape
of a Blue-winged Warbler song.  I refound the same bird by the same means at
the same location May 9, 2001, but when I played the tape on May 4, 2002, at
that location, a male Blue-winged Warbler came in. I am speculating that
this 2003 backcross found at a different location is a descendant of the
2000-2001  bird and a female Blue-winged Warbler with which it mated.

I am not sure whether the 2002 bird was a first generation bird or a
(white-breasted) backcross. If anyone knows, I would be interested to learn
that.

Bob Fisher
Independence, Missouri
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Subject: Brewsters at Weston Sat., New warbs. at Watkins


>      If this has already been reported I apologize for the duplication.
> On Saturday morning at Weston Bend SP, a Brewsters Warbler was sighted
> by a group of birders about 100 yards directly south of the toilets in
> the bike trail parking lot. It was a male F2 backcross as described in
> the Dunn/Garrett book of Warblers. It was singing a Blue-wing song. It
> eventually retreated farther south into the ravine with the tall
> cottonwoods.
>      Sunday mornings rain brought 4 new warblers to Watkins Mill SP:
> Blackburnian
> Magnolia
> Black-throated Green
>      (All 3 around the cove near bridge #7 on the southeast part of the
> lake)
> Chestnut-sided
>      (Where the main trail meets the dirt trail to the Boy Scout camp)
>
>      There were an additional 10 warblers on the premises, either
> already reported or of the common variety. The best of the lot were the
> Prairie, Palm and Blue-winged.
> Who knows what I may have missed. The lighting was, as Jed Clampett
> would say, "Piiiitiful, just pitiful".
>
> Steve Dillinger
> Excelsior Springs
> Ray County
>
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