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Jun 17Liked by Laura Erickson

Thank you. I will use the three p's for this and other nemesis birds. They are infrequent to rare nesters in Pennsylvania. Usually seen sulking under bushes in fall migration, they are considered "Rare. Migrant." in my area in Birds of the Lehigh Valley and Vicinity (2014). They here are also found in brushy areas, overgrown fields, and forest edges. They can be confused with Mourning and Hooded Warblers, Common Yellowthroats, and even Yellow-breasted Chats if seen at a glance scurrying underbrush, so if you think you saw one of these, maybe it was a Connecticut unless you heard it!

Talk about lucking out, I was in downtown Allentown one morning looking at birds hawking insects in the floodlights of a skyscraper from a cemetery. At dawn, down came a Summer Tanager, a Black-and-White Warbler, and a Canada Warbler chasing insects and each other around!!

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