

If accepted by the Vermont Birds Records committee, this would officially be the 11th record of the species in the State of Vermont. Though this species has a normal Northern range that ends about the latitude of the New York/Pennsylvania border, it is know for semi-regular vagrancy into the north. Overwintering this far North is somewhat less well precedented, however.

The timing of finding this bird was fortuitous as it placed it inside the count-week window for the Middlebury Christmas Bird Count. And this Yellow-throated Warbler has been a gift that keeps on giving. Since Dec, 18, it has been re-found by many other birders. The crowds of birders looking for this bird also brought to light how long it has been in the area. Peter Voorhees, who lives nearby, heard about the birders looking for this bird and remembered he had seen a bird that had a yellow throat that he didn’t recognize on November 29. He took a picture of it but only managed to get it from behind, but the picture shows enough to confirm it was a Yellow-throated Warbler.