This is bird note. Today we're in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.

Winter here is a great time to visit old friends.

Birds that is, we met in summer, back in the U.S.

The tops of flowering trees are busy with yellow-rumped warblers and western tanagers,

northern nesters that winter in Mexico.

These northerners get to mingle

with barrel and hummingbirds

and go. with Barlin hummingbirds and gray silky fly catchers year-round residents of the

tropics. Let's leave Wahaka City for the countryside and ascend through a series of habitats. a the northern winter, a neon orange bullocks oriel purchased in a morning glory tree.

And just below is a blue mockingbird, a tropical gem found only in Mexico.

Ascending further to 7,000 feet,

we've entered a misty forest of tropical oaks festooned with bromeliads.

Wow, what a flock of warblers working that oak tree.

Flashy townsons warblers and glowing yellow hermit warblers.

Forging alongside the splendid crescent-chested warblers of the tropics.

And listen to that, it's a brown-backed solitaire singing, a song that fills the Mexican forest as no other can.

For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann.