ID please? (confirmed Orange Crowned Warbler) New Orleans City Park Feb 2015 (2 Viewers)

[andrewslack]

Can anyone identify this? It seems a sort of greeny grey on top and creamy/light underneath, but the lighting and exposure weren't great. It doesn't have prominent wing bars though there is some different colouring at the front of the wing. It has a thin white eye ring, which is obscured by a foreground leaf in one photo. Between the umpteen flycatchers, phoebes, pewees, vireos and warblers found in the park, and the possibility it might be a female and/or juvenile, I'm stumped. It's probably really obvious but I'm not that up on US birds. ID suggestions appreciated, particularly with reasoning/identifying features! Original photos and sharpened ones attached.

thanks in advance

Andrew

 

[birdmeister]

Nice photos of this Orange-crowned Warbler! Solid greenish uppers, dull pale yellowish underparts (no white visible), lack of strong streaking, and that small yellowish eye ring (split) are good marks for Orange-crowned. Tennessee is similar but would be much rarer there in February.

I forgot to add that the thin bill is a big pointer towards warbler over flycatcher, vireo, etc.

 

[qwerty5]

I agree with birdmeister

 

[andrewslack]

Thank you very much, yes I can see it now. I had other photos of OCW that day but I hadn't made the link.

 

[Microtus]

Orange-crowned Warbler