Late warbler

This fellow is Number Forty-Two on our Kitchen Window List.

(Yes: we have a "List." We didn't used to but it just gradually came into being. Now I feel a competition with myself.)

It's not a very sharp picture but enough to identify him: a Yellow-throated warbler. He showed up for some suet early this morning.

I was half-expecting him. He had been visiting a suet feeder a couple of hundred metres away from us a few days ago. And one of the flickers had chopped up lotsa suet for him from the suet holder above. Those flickers are pigs but the other birds appreciate it.

Even though it is mid-December, the weather's been mild and there are a half-dozen warblers who have apparently decided to try their luck to spend the winter around this town, St. John's, Newfoundland, when all their relatives decamped a couple of months ago for more southern climes.