Yellow-throated Vireo, Babcock

I had a little bit of time to myself today, so I grabbed the supertelephoto lens and headed to the Babcock Ridge Preserve to see if maybe, just maybe, those Pileated Woodpeckers would be cooperative. Alas, they weren't. Once again, the best I could manage was a very fleeting glimpse of one of those great birds fleeing deeper into the woods—a view that happened too fast for me to raise the behemoth and lock in on the woodpecker for a shot. But my luck proved better with this bird, which I heard singing the buzzy phrases of what I was sure was some kind of vireo. With the modest telephoto I own, the best I could have done was take a very blurry shot of a bird high in the canopy and maybe, just maybe, I could have matched characteristics with the call. With the supertelephoto, however, I could capture enough of the vireo to give it a definite name: a Yellow-throated... no doubt about the identity of this handsome newly returned migrant.