Wilson's Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Warbling Vireo
Tomorrow I am off to Cape May for the Maygration Birding Festival.
Until next week then, happy birding!
Showing posts with label Warbling Vireo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warbling Vireo. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2012
Jewels of the Woods
The season of the wood warblers and vireos is here. Although they are plentiful they are still not easy to see. Watch for a quick movement in the leaves, a shadow flying across a thicket, a flickering in the corner of your eyes. Then keep looking in that direction and you may be lucky. Pishing may lure them out into the open, but only briefly until they have satisfied themselves that you can safely be ignored.
Monday, May 16, 2011
With Warblers patience, patience, patience...
I took a break - no birding, blogging or commenting - while my camera was being repaired. I was afraid I was going to miss all of the spring warbler season and was getting pretty morose, but I got the camera back just in time.
This Canada Warbler was flitting through dark moist undergrowth on a neighbor's wood lot.
A Chestnut-sided Warbler was singing high up in a tree.
A Common Yellowthroat scolding me, but then calmed down.
Yellow Warblers always have such an innocently sweet expression, but they are ferocious predators of invertebrates!
My time waiting for my camera wasn't all wasted. I got to go shopping for some sorely needed spring clothing, caught up with my emails with friends and relatives and got to read a couple of books. It actually turned out to be a nice respite from bird-centered activities - just too bad it had to be during peak warbler migration.
Must check out: amazing distribution maps for many species in the "State of the Birds 2011" report with much of the information collected by eBird -- shows how important it is to submit your sightings.
Cheers and good birding!
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