Wilson's Bird

Bell15.08 by Earl Plato

We were eating our bag lunches on the Upper Trail at Marcy Woods. It was early spring. Naturalist Ernie Giles, biologist Debbie Magnus and myself ere enjoying the beautiful setting. Ernie lifted his finger to his mouth. “Sh, sh.” To my left we heard the chattery staccato sound of a bird not far away on the ground. Only less than ten feet away was a small bird with a bright yellow chest. Ernie replicated the bird’s call. An amazing man. It came closer to us scratching te ground. It’s a Wilson’s warbler,’ whispered Ernie. Warblers are seen briefly in the Point Abino area during migration time. It was my first Wilson’s warbler named for famed Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson (1766-1813). Visit Marcy Woods?