Black-and-White Warbler breeds in northern and eastern North America and winters in Florida, Central America, and the West Indies down to Peru. One of its calls is so high pitched I need my hearing aids to hear it:
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-and-white_Warbler/sounds
This one was passing through Central Park.


Sherry, what’s this?!!! An American who uses the words “West Indies” instead of Caribbean?!! But wait, you are New Yorker. Of course!
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Very funny. To get technical on you, the West Indies is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Yep. I was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I’ve lived in St. Lucia, Barbados, and Antigua. It’s always been the West Indies.
I’ve given up saying “West Indies” with most Americans (at least the ones I encounter in New Jersey and other states outside New York City) who ask where I’m from. Caribbean works for them, although most don’t pronounce the word correctly.
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The West Indies is a chain of islands in the Caribbean ocean. It’s not region of any ocean.
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Ugh! Small text box and small print on iPhone and watery allergy eyes make for a bad typing experience. Ignore that last update.
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Two good ones
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Thanks
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Lovely bokeh background.
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Thank you Jan. I find a bit of bokeh adds interest.
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Fantastic photo, Sherry. I like how the lines on the tree echo the lines in the warbler. And what a grand find. Cheerful and twitchy bird of great beauty.
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Thank you my friend. The stripes do match 🙂
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