Black-and-white Warbler
This morning, on the last full day of winter – though winter weather has been a distant memory for several weeks now – a Black-and-white Warbler sang its high, sibilant weesa-weesa-weesa in a wooded area near a creek. It was the Black-and-white Warbler to appear this season here in our neighborhood. It was too far away and backlit by the sun, so I could only see its silhouette as it crept over branches and flew from tree to tree, but once it paused on a short stub of a branch, lifted its head, parted its bill and sang again.