I can't tell you the story. I found this sad little yellow corpse when I went out to change the sugar water in the humming bird feeder mid-morning. I think it's a - was a - warbler, probably an orange-crowned warbler; too startling a yellow for a female yellow warbler, and the back was a deep olive green, which rules out a male yellow warbler, most likely. It's too early in the fall for a goldfinch, and in any case, it has a long warbler beak. Happy to take advice.
But what happened?? At first I assumed it had flown into a window, though it was several feet away from the house, and I'd heard no thud. And then - it seems to have been eviscerated. There's some rusty blood visible on the feathers, and it's - well, empty. I'd heard some strange noises on the roof earlier, which could have been a hawk; there was a raven gargling in a tree for a while, who could have chewed it post-mortem. It was a sad sight, whatever - and I gave it a careful and reverent burial.
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