Behaviour Photo Doc.

Cropped Pix

Yellow-rumped Warbler YRWA (Setophaga coronata)[bottom ]

eating pulpy flesh of fruit of our native hawthorn

 

Black or Douglas Hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii)

 

Very interesting to see a warbler eating something besides insects!

 

 

Pendray Farm (Private Property)

North Saanich

(Saanich Peninsula)

 

Capital Regional District

Vancouver Island

British Columbia

 

 

American Goldfinch AMGO (Spinus tristis)

perched preening above

 

 

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Subspecies

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle sub.sp.) YRWA (Setophaga coronata coronata)

 

AKA "Myrtle Warbler"

 

>>by white throat apparent in 1st photo

 

 

From Wikipedia

These birds are insectivorous, but will readily take wax-myrtle berries in winter, a habit which gives the species its name

 

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This particular individual could be an intergrade.Audubon'sxMyrtle.

Throat feature wraps around to towards back of auriculars...but auricular dark line not that strong

Done