(June 5, 2025) The week got off to a good start with two Blackburnian Warblers in Madaket May 27. It just goes to show that not all warbler activity is lost with the appearance of the first Blackpoll.

The first Nantucket record of a Blackburnian was June 1945. They were in Massachusetts casually from at least the 1830s. But part of the problem of identifying nesting activity was—and is—their proclivity for building high in the canopy at ends of branches. Those are not the easiest places to survey, particularly in the early days when optical equipment was more primitive.