This Wilson’s Warbler was great fun to paint in transparent watercolor. Though they only travel through Mid-Michigan for a few weeks every year, I look forward to seeing them every spring and fall. The females are harder to identify because they lack that cute black cap. Like many others, this species is to be renamed. Sorry Alexander Wilson. Last I looked they didn’t have a new name for it yet. That will probably be fought over for a while. Of course, I’ll still be calling it a Wilson’s, just like I still call Blue-headed Vireos Solitary Vireos.
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