"Uncommon in extensive brushy woods with dense understory near water; often in willows or alders. A very small long-tailed warbler ... Unmarked bright yellow below, with pale face and large eyes, plain yellow-olive upperside, and dark tail." (David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, p. 353).

"M. has black shiny, beanielike cap, yellow forehead, eyebrow, and eye-ring, olive-green cheek, olive-green upper-parts; entirely yellow underparts." (Donald & Lillian Stokes' The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, p. 636.)

"Uncommon to common migrant throughout the state ... Migration runs from early April to mid-May and from late August to mid-October." (Mark W. Lockwood & Brush Freeman's The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds, p. 184.)

This shows another view of the black cap.

Photo taken with a Nikon D90 using a Nikon 400mm f/5.6 lens.

September 7, 2012.