This is a Tennessee Warbler that I spotted sitting on a fir bough at Bearpen Gap along the Blue Ridge Parkway last month.

It’s genus name (Leiothlypis peregrina) means the “ plain-unknown-bird wanderer” and travel they do!
Each spring, they pass briefly through North Carolina on their way to their nesting grounds in the far reaches of northern New England and Canada.
Now that autumn has arrived, Tennessee Warblers are making an appearance here in the Tarheel state once again. Look for these beautiful little Warblers in open areas that contain grasses, dense shrubs, and scattered clumps of young deciduous and coniferous trees.
You can find them throughout September and early October before they continue their hurried journey south towards Central and South America.
Such neat little birds!

Photo by @sally_siko of @birdwatching_nc on the fabulous full frame SLR, the @canonusa
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