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On a blue-sky morning in early January I went outside to find the air snapping with cold. A sharp, abrupt check came from the maple tree. I knew that sound; it is distinct among bird calls.
It was a Yellow-rumped Warbler, until recently called Myrtle Warbler. Finally, I saw the little bird — 4 3/4 inches long — as it darted through the elegant tracery of the outer twigs of the maple tree and flew toward the honeysuckle thicket in back of this property.
The Yellow-rumped Warbler is one of the few members of its family to winter in the United States; most warblers are now in the American tropics. It is unusual to see one in winter so far inland.
These warblers occur by the hundreds along the Virginia coast where they constantly Cc T check and feed on waxy, white fruits of the bayberry or myrtle shrubs. It is because of this food preference that this warbler was named Myrtle Warbler and called so
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