Date: 6/9/25 10:16 am From: Bill Lafley <blafley...> Subject: Re: [MASSBIRD] Lawence's Warbler likely breeding at Fowl Meadow, Milton
Hello,
Good point Glenn. On a related note about Golden-winged/Blue-winged Warblers, yesterday AM while conducting my 3rd visit for the Trustees Grassland Bird Survey at Jewell Hill in Ashburnham I heard a buzzy song that took me a bit to figure out since I had not heard it in 20+ years. I tried to enlist the help of my Uncle Merlin but he ignored it. Finally concluded it was a Golden-winged song and luckily with some persistence I found the bird and it was a Blue-winged Warbler perched 15-20 up in a tree singing away. Earlier that AM in another area of the property I had a Blue-winged singing its typical bee-buzz song. I remember one of my early birding mentors telling me when you hear one of these birds singing either song always try to get a visual. That was in the days when encountering a Golden-winged was not quite as rare as it is seems to be today.
Bill Lafley
New Salem
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> On Jun 8, 2025, at 8:50 PM, GLENN D'ENTREMONT <gdentremont1...> wrote:
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> Attached is an ebird report with images of Lawrence's Warbler which is a hybrid backcross with a Brewster's (first generation hybrid) and a pure Golden-winged (simplistic probability 1 out of 16 eggs) as this is the recessive genes.
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> The images show a bird holding food which means confirmed breeding. I am not sure where this is in Fowl Meadow, but anyone birding the area should pay attention and see with what this bird is paired.
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> Glenn
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> awrence's Warbler (hybrid) (Vermivora chrysoptera x cyanoptera (F2 backcross)) (1)
> - Reported Jun 03, 2025 08:55 by Ethan Ripperger
> - Fowl Meadow, Norfolk, Massachusetts
> - Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-71.1313248&<ll...>,-71.1313248- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S246297180 > - Media: 7 Photos
> - Comments: "I was scratching my head for awhile on this one. After wracking my brain for awhile the blue-ish wings made me think of a Blue-winged/Golden-winged hybrid. Some additional googling led me to Lawrence's."
> Glenn d'Entremont: <gdentremont1...> Stoughton, MA
