Date: 4/20/26 8:31 am From: Shirley Maas via groups.io <dtmsem2006...> Subject: Re: [NEBirds] Swainson's Warbler
With all these new sightings it might behove us to survey the sites we just drive by. Ie Fush Crow
A Quick 5 minute survey with my friend Merlin can turn up birds and locations we just don’t normally visit. We are creatures of habit going where we always went before.
I’ve been trying this locally in Mesa with some surprising results.
Don MaasMesa. AZMaricopa County
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government then you are doomed to live under the rules of fools. Plato“You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of reality.”
Don & Shirley MaasThe Maas’s have migrated to the Valley of the Sun in Mesa, AZ from Choctaw, Ok for the winter.
On Sunday, April 19, 2026, 6:16 PM, Marsha via groups.io <marshanyffeler...> wrote:
Hello NEBird people, I have not posted in literally years, but I thought a Swainson’w Warbler sighting is worth reporting. On April 18, 2026 I found a Swainson’w Warbler in our private property in Polk Co, Nebraska near Osceola, Nebraska.
I had a very long and fairly close view of this bird, as I did not recognize it I spent considerable time watching it. I have pictures and videos but only had my cell phone and tablet - so the pictures are not great. This bird was very active only on the ground, flipping leaves over in search of bugs. I observed that as it foraged it would “shimmy” its rear, it reminded me of the jerky tail wag of the waterthrushes. This bird had a very distinctive brown cap, white eyebrow line, brown eye line, strong heavy beak, the entire body was very plain,: brown back, buff lower body, no wingbars, or any sort of barring on any tail feathers. I realize that this bird is far from its normal range, and pretty early in the season. Maybe blown to nebraska on a strong wind! I did not find it today when I went back to see if it was still around..
Marsha Nyffeler
Lincoln, NE
