The BLACKPOLLS are the rear guard of the Warbler armies during their Spring advance and apparently fear no enemies behind for they advance leisurely and move with confident deliberation. During the first week of June when most of their kind are house-keeping they are still indulging in the pleasures of the festive forest tables and I have found them on Long Island so tame and fat from their falstafian tendencies that I actually caught one in my hand. He didn't seem worried or even scarcely excited but looked at me with a quiet eye beneath his black cap as tho inquiring why I annoyed him?
During the fall migration it is not unusual to flush them from the open fields in company with sparrows.
Eastern North America, north to the tree limit from Labrador to Alaska and the Rocky Mountains.