Nashville Warbler -- Bloomingdale, New York --Adirondacks

Named by Alexander Wilson in 1811 as he first observed the bird near Nashville when in

migration as the bird does not breed in Tennessee.

 

I could not get a shot of this VERY JUMPY bird singing, so I had to be content with this

pose on a Larix laricina. The tree is also known as a Tamarack from the Algonquin

language meaning "wood used for snowshoes!" It is a deciduous conifer meaning it is not an evergreen, but drops it's needles in the fall, but being a conifer, it does indeed 'bear cones."

 

I was surprised to learn from local expert birder, Larry Master, that the Nashville is very

abundant in the Lake Placid area and surrounding forests. If it had not been for my fellow birder, Sharon Richards, who heard the bird singing, --we would never have spotted it

in the forest edge. This is my very first image of a Nashville on territory.

 

The bird is 11.2 meters or 36 feet from the camera. Taken with a NIkon D4 and Nikon 800mm f5.6 lens w/ 1.25x teleconverter.

Done