ChrisShannen2000
Black-throated Gray Warbler
The BTGW is one of about ten Western Warblers--that is to say warblers that occur in the American West, without any attention paid to vagrancy.
In other words they breed in the Western states, so that is where I had to go to photograph them.
I had gotten shots of this bird four years ago in Arizona, but the bird was quick to flit about and didn't give me a good photo. So The BTGW went on my target list for the summer out West.
The BTGW has a kind of enviable life: It breeds in the mountainous areas of the Four Corner states and up the west coast as far north as southern BC. It then flies down to central Mexico for the winter--a quick up and down trip, the ultimate summering Experience: fly up north for the pleasant weather in the mountains to the north, then back down to the warm weather to the south for the cold months.
I romanticize their existence, but their lives are hard migrating and then raising young during the brief window of summer time.
Black-throated Gray Warbler
The BTGW is one of about ten Western Warblers--that is to say warblers that occur in the American West, without any attention paid to vagrancy.
In other words they breed in the Western states, so that is where I had to go to photograph them.
I had gotten shots of this bird four years ago in Arizona, but the bird was quick to flit about and didn't give me a good photo. So The BTGW went on my target list for the summer out West.
The BTGW has a kind of enviable life: It breeds in the mountainous areas of the Four Corner states and up the west coast as far north as southern BC. It then flies down to central Mexico for the winter--a quick up and down trip, the ultimate summering Experience: fly up north for the pleasant weather in the mountains to the north, then back down to the warm weather to the south for the cold months.
I romanticize their existence, but their lives are hard migrating and then raising young during the brief window of summer time.