The bright yellow spectacles, throat, and breast of this vireo are distinctive. Its wings are dark gray, with 2 bold, white wing bars. The crown and back are olive, rather bright, contrasting with ...

Yellow-throated vireo: Breeds in the eastern part of the state above the coastal plain and in parts of the Hill Country. Yellow throat and yellow eye spectacles.

It’s a shame that the Yellow-throated Vireo is more often heard than seen, as its bright yellow throat gleams! This vireo is a bird of the treetops rather than thickets and tangles.

The diet of the yellow-throated vireo, although heavily dependent on caterpillars, includes aphids, beetles, cicadas, crickets, mosquitoes and berries. The birds mostly forage for food high in the ...

Yellow-throated Vireo notes are more burry or hoarse and sound like “ee-yay (pause) ee-year (pause)”, etc. etc. Red-eyed Vireo’s notes are more musical and less hoarse. Name Origin: The genus name ...

Adult Yellow-throated Vireo with caterpillar COURTESY: Jeff Osborne. Males arrive a few days before females, and assess possible nesting sites, then mark them with a few pieces of plant materials.

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Mass Audubon: Reports last week were punctuated by several late ruby-throated hummingbirds, as well as modest numbers of Connecticut warblers, eastern wood ...

Four more species of Warblers and the last Vireo species, the Yellow-throated Vireo, will arrive, bringing final additions to the April springtime song.

Also, blue-winged, yellow-throated and black-and-white warblers were at the Pine Hollow area in Virginia Kendall, as well as yellow-throated vireo, rose-breasted grosbeak and scarlet tanager ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, a Barnum resident, is the author of several books, including “Butterflies of the North Woods,” “Spiders of the North Woods,” “Webwood” and “In a Patch of ...

Middlesex County: A yellow-crowned night-heron at the Amelia Earhart Dam in Everett, three glossy ibises at Nine Acre Corner in Concord, single red-throated loons at the Horn Pond Recreation Area ...