Goldfinches are a welcome splash of color at our backyard feeders

Woodland warblers are a group of wild birds that I wish I was better at individually identifying.

For starters, wood warblers are small birds and, as their collective name suggests, live in dense forests, thickets and woodlands, so spotting them is made doubly difficult because of foliage. What’s more, many of the wood warbler ilk prefer foraging and singing from mid-level and treetop locations. Indeed, we are most often relegated to audible identification strategies than visual ones.

Luckily for us, however, some species of wood warblers prefer more eye-level locales and are . . .