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Phoebes and myrtle warblers stake out the sun-warmed branches of the trees, and greedily snap up unwitting pollinators.

In Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, at least a thousand myrtle warblers could be seen in migration during former years; in 1958, after the spraying of the elms, observers could find only two.

I have seen cedar waxwings and myrtle warblers harvesting these slim pickings as the last days of February mellow into more bountiful March.

Until recently the East and West Coast populations of the yellow-rumped warbler were segregated into two closely related but separate species, Audubon’s warbler on the West Coast and the myrtle warbler in the east.

Feeding on these the myrtle warblers should be spicy, sprightly creatures, full of quaint romance, as indeed they are.