This warbler gave me absolute fits in identifying it. Not a Tennessee, but close. Not a Warbling Vireo, but close. I totally gave up on it for a while there. I did not dare post it under any name! Then this morning I decided to flip through Ken Kaufman’s ”Field Guide to the Nature of New England, just on the off chance that I had overlooked something common enough to be in his selection of common New England Warblers, and it jumped right out at me. I had not been looking at female birds! This is the female Black-throated Blue Warbler, photographed at Magee Marsh in Ohio during the Biggest Week in American Birding. And a nifty bird it is. Subtle pattern and color, but elegant and beautiful. Totally worthy of a full plate in any field guide!

Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 600mm equivalent. Shutter preferred. 1 /640th @ ISO 2000 @ f7.1. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet. Assembled in Pixlr Express.