Winter Wren and Two More

An excellent  day of birding. We spent a long morning with our friend Arn, at the Stebbins Refuge in Springfield, where we saw the male yellow warbler in the extras, among other things (e.g. at least two great crested flycatchers).  Then on to Mount Tom, for the winter wren above--a tiny bird, just four inches long (the same species as the only wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) found in Europe (there it's called simply "wren").  We also were surprised to find a hooded warbler while looking for a worm-eating warbler which can usually be found at Mt. Tom.  The hooded was well seen, but too far to get a good photo. Then late in the afternoon we went back to Fort River (our fourth successive day). There I saw a woodcock (in the second extra)--an uncommon bird that is not often seen during the day. Note its superb camouflage. (According to Sibley it measures 11 inches--bill tip to tail tip.)  At the end a pileated woodpecker put on a brief show--and I was able to get a pretty good 30-second video.

The map is marked for the wren, on Mount Tom. (As has been mostly the case it is keyed to the GPS in the Canon 7D Mark II which I use with my 100-400 mm lens.)