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Friday’s Feathered Friends- Yellow Warbler

May 16, 2025May 16, 2025Posted in Bird Photography, birding, Friday's Feathered Friends, YellowTagged Friday's Feathered Friends, Ohio Spring Warblers, Spring Birding Migration, Warblers, Yellow Warbler46 Comments

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Myself and He-Man went to Ohio for several days of birding Wood Warblers. I hoped to see some I didn’t see last year and see those I did see last year again. It was a great trip. Not only did I see a number of the Warblers I saw last year, I also saw some new species of Warblers plus a couple of other birds. 14 new to me birds or in birder speak ” Lifers”. On Monday the 12th (my birthday) I saw 7 Lifers! What a gift!!

I have thousands of images to cull but, I’m hoping I have a few good images to share in upcoming posts.

In the meantime here’s a cheerful Yellow Warbler I saw while there. These guys were everywhere on May 11th. They were singing and filling up on insects in all the trees in bloom getting ready for their over night migration to get to their breeding grounds in the USA, and some flew over the 26 miles of Lake Erie to get to Canada where their breeding grounds are.

On May 12th their numbers at the marsh were remarkably lower than the day before. I only saw a few.

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I’m catching up with mail, email, bills, of course the laundry, and your blogs.

I hope you have a lovely week-end.

Fun facts:

In addition to the migratory form of the Yellow Warbler that breeds in North America, several other resident forms can be found in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Males in these populations can have chestnut caps or even chestnut covering the entire head.
The nests of the Yellow Warbler are frequently parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird. The warbler often builds a new nest directly on top of the parasitized one, sometimes resulting in nests with up to six tiers.
Life can be dangerous for a small bird. Yellow Warblers have occasionally been found caught in the strands of an orb weaver spider’s web.
The oldest-known Yellow Warbler was a female and was at least 11 years old when she was recaught and rereleased during banding operations in New York. ~https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow_Warbler

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Friday’s Feathered Friends- Warblers

May 24, 2024May 23, 2024Posted in birding, Nikon, PhotographyTagged Birding, Birds, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Friday's Feathered Friends, Magnolia Warbler, Ohio, Spring Migration, Warblers48 Comments

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For Mother’s Day and my birthday He-Man and I went to Ohio for several days of birding the Spring migration of Eastern birds. It was fantastic. I added 27 new birds to my life list most of which were Warblers.

Here are three that I have processed.

My favorite Warbler seen was the Chestnut-sided. Isn’t he gorgeous.

I have thousands of images to cull and sort through so I’ll be dribbling out the images over the next several weeks.

It was a great trip. I hope I get an opportunity to return as there are Warblers, and other birds I still hope to see.

Have a great week-end everyone.

Nikon D850| Nikkor 500mm PF-e

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Wordless Wednesday 41/52 Fall Color

October 11, 2017December 26, 2017Posted in Bird Photogaphy, birding, Birds, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, California Wildlife Reserves, Nikon, Photography, Wordless WednesdayTagged Birding, Birds, Migrant birds, Nikon, Pacific-Flyway, Warblers, Wintering Birds, Wordless Wednesday, Yellow Warblers35 Comments

Yellow Warbler-Female

Nikon D810| Nikkor 200-500mm| SanDisk Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 10, 2017Posted in Bird Photography, birding, Birds in the Wild, Birds of Santa Clara County, Nature, Nikon, Photography, WarblersTagged Birding, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Birds of Santa Clara Co, Ed Levine County Park, hide and seek, Leaves, Nature, Nikon, peek-a-boo!, Photography, Tree, Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warbler27 Comments

Peeking out to wish you all a happy day!

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Birders notes: This little bird is a “year round” bird in my area ; Santa Clara County, but I tend to see it more in the Spring and Fall. I think they fly further north for their breeding season. They are quite busy and rarely stay still. They require a lot of patience to get a photograph of one in my experience but, they’re so cute, and beautiful the wait is worth it. 🙂

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm|Lexar Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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The Stare Down

January 21, 2015January 21, 2015Posted in Bald Eagles, Bird Photography, birding, Birds of Northern America, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Snow Geese, WarblersTagged Bald Eagles, Bird Photography, Birding, Birds in the Wild, Eagles, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Shorebirds, Snow Geese, Warblers, waterbirds11 Comments

A group of photographers got together last week for our annual trek to Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. It was dreary day with fog, and clouds all day. The light was flat, flat, flat. Thankfully there was a nice variety of birds on the ponds.

The first time around the auto-route there was Bald Eagle high up in it’s favorite tree. I call this tree the “Eagle Tree” because there’s been an Eagle perched in it the last 3 years I’ve been there. I wonder if this is the Juvenile Bald Eagle I’ve seen in years past grown up with an all white head now? Aren’t they majestic!

Later in the day high in the Eucalyptus trees there was a juvenile Bald Eagle surveying the land and ponds,

There was a spot of color on this dreary day…

…The Trio

These Snow Geese were the only ones we saw up on the bank. I think one had an injured wing and the other two were keeping it company.

Nikon D700| AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 w/AF-S 14eII TC| Hand-held| Lexar Professional High Speed Film| CS6

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