English and Scientific names:	Connecticut Warbler (oporornis agilis)
Number of individuals:	1 immature
Locality: LOUISIANA:	Orleans
Specific Locality:	New Orleans City Park - on path to the model airplane area.
Date(s) when observed:	9-16-2006
Time(s) of day when observed:	About 0930
Reporting observer and address:	Ed Wallace New Orleans, LA
Other observers accompanying reporter who also identified the bird(s):	Bryan Lenz
Other observers who independently identified the bird(s)
Light conditions (position of bird in relation to shade and to direction and amount of light):	Sunny.  No canopy.  Light was good
Optical equipment:	Brunton, 8X, Excellent
Distance to bird(s):	10 to 20 feet
Duration of observation:	2 or 3 minutes off and on.
Habitat:	Very weedy.  Lots of 15 foot ragweed.  Some shrubbery and a few trees.  Sightings were in ragweed.
Behavior of bird:	Bird came out to respond to pishing.  It was among several other immature birds.  It kept popping in and out of the weeds.
Description:	One of the birds we had seen had a distinct eye ring, olive back and head with no distinctive features, a slightly paler belly, and a destinctively yellow undertail coverts.  Not bright yellow, but it certainly contrasted with the rest of the bird.  The shape was also different from the yellow warblers it was around.  The tail was a cocked, kind of like a Kentucky warbler.  It appeared to be a little smaller than the yellows which were all around.  It also did not seem to be as hyper as the yellows.
Voice:	It did not call.
Similar species:	We considered other species.  The first is an immature yellow throat.  However, it did not have any yellow on the throat, and the yellowthroat does not have a complete eyering.  Immature Mourning warbler was another candidate.  Note that mourning has yellow all the way down its belly and this did not.  Also, immature mourning's have an incomplete eye ring, our bird did not.  Another one that I considered when I got home was an immature Nashville warbler which does have a complete eyering and yellow undertail coverts.  However, the one thing that jumps out is that immature Nashvilles have white underneath.  This bird did not.  Nashvilles also a contrast between the head and back.  This bird was uniformally olive.
Photographs or tape recordings obtained?	None.  It would have been difficult to photograph.
Previous experience with this species:	I have two other records with adults.
Identification aids:	at time of observation: In the field, I looked at Sibleys.  after observation: I also looked National Geographic 3rd Edition.  Finally, I looked at Petersen's.
This description is written from:	From memory.  The one thing I will admit is that we had dismissed it when we saw it as unidentifiable.  It was only after I was showing what an immature Blackburnian to Bryan, that he noticed the painting of an immature Connecticut that light bulbs went off.
Are you positive of your identification? If not, explain:	I am comfortable enough to add it my own list.  The combination of field ID marks and our observation that it was distinctly different from the yellow warblers that were all around makes me confident.  Note because of its rarity and the fact that I did not immediately identify it, I am open to other suggestions.
Reporter:	Ed Wallace
Date and time:	9-17-2006 -- 0900