Excerpted from a forwarded email from Gary Zylkuski received at 1:30pm –

“About 11am today I saw a Connecticut Warbler on the trail to Nuclear Lake. I got a 10-12 second outstanding look at it as it perched in the open, then was able to see it intermittently for the next 20 secs or so as it walked on the ground through the brush. I was unable to see it thereafter. I stayed there for a half hour trying to relocate it to no avail. I saw the warbler at the same time a mixed flock of warblers/kinglets were moving southward through the trees and shrubs around it, so I am not sure if it moved on with them.

The location I saw the bird was on the right hand side of the trail/road as one walks toward the lake. It was about a tenth of a mile up the trail from the locked cable stretched across the road and was within 20 feet of the trail when I saw it. I have put an “x” with 2 crossed sticks at the location were I saw it, if anyone is interested in looking. As I said, I looked for it for about 30 mins after I first saw it, to no avail. It could very well have moved on with the mixed flock of Parulas, B-T greens, Canadas, Blackpolls and Red-eyed Vireos that were all around it when I first found it.”

Please let us know your results if you decide to look for it!
Good Birding.

Deb Tracy-Kral, Rare Bird Coordinator
RT Waterman Bird Club

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