Jeffco mythical warbler.....confirmed

[Migrant]

OK, you're off the hook, the lot of you. I was convinced that you had created a gigantic conspiracy involving phony eBird records, fake Cobirds reports, photos taken in Pennsylvania in June, etc., etc.....all for the purpose of keeping me looking for an obviously non-existent Pine Warbler at Denver West. Today, on my (and I am not making this up) fifteenth attempt, I finally got the bird, which had been giving me the bird for the past six weeks. I was getting beyond annoyed; if there were two of me, I'd have been paranoid......but, like I said, the truth will out, and so did the bird.
There were also a nice flock of waxwings, the bushtit flock, a yellow-rump and a single red crossbill, type 22. That is the Catch-22 bird, designed to keep aspiring birders ever in the hole. When a person feels that they might finally be attaining a certain level of competence, the aforementioned conspirators create numerous, indecipherable-to-the-normal-human subcategories of birds, so that we can go back and start all over again. This bird was one of those.....

Norm Lewis
Lakewood (and it feels like) Denver West Office Park

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[Ira Sanders]

Norm,

You give the rest of us hope.

Ira Sanders

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Ira Sanders

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