Northern waterthrush
Upper peninsula of Michigan.
Getting a singing shot of this species was one of my goals for the Michigan trip with David. This was a new song for me to learn and it was a bit trickier for me to learn than some of the other warblers we were targeting. It's song can bear some resemblance to that of the CONW, and at one point when we first heard this bird singing we thought we had a CONW, but it proved to be this bird. In retrospect the song of the CONW is distinctly different. Too bad wishful thinking can not turn a song into a different bird! The birds share similar wet boggy habitat in the UP of Michigan, but the NOWA is FAR more common there.
David thru out our trip would often point out a conifer specimen and give it's name. I had forgotten the name of this one and had to message him for it. You might think David would have 'Photog'. ' GAPHOTOG', 'WARBLER', or other such name on a specialty license plate, but he has 'CONIFER' on his. So David knows conifers (borrowing a phrase from the old 'Bo knows' commercials!).
Anyhow here is an excerpt from Wikipedia on the conifer above. "Thuja occidentalis grows naturally in wet forests, being particularly abundant in coniferous swamps where other larger and faster-growing trees cannot compete successfully. It also occurs on other sites with reduced tree competition, such as cliffs. Although not currently listed as endangered, wild Thuja occidentalis populations are threatened in many areas by high deer numbers; deer find the soft evergreen foliage a very attractive winter food, and strip it rapidly."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja_occidentalis
Northern waterthrush
Upper peninsula of Michigan.
Getting a singing shot of this species was one of my goals for the Michigan trip with David. This was a new song for me to learn and it was a bit trickier for me to learn than some of the other warblers we were targeting. It's song can bear some resemblance to that of the CONW, and at one point when we first heard this bird singing we thought we had a CONW, but it proved to be this bird. In retrospect the song of the CONW is distinctly different. Too bad wishful thinking can not turn a song into a different bird! The birds share similar wet boggy habitat in the UP of Michigan, but the NOWA is FAR more common there.
David thru out our trip would often point out a conifer specimen and give it's name. I had forgotten the name of this one and had to message him for it. You might think David would have 'Photog'. ' GAPHOTOG', 'WARBLER', or other such name on a specialty license plate, but he has 'CONIFER' on his. So David knows conifers (borrowing a phrase from the old 'Bo knows' commercials!).
Anyhow here is an excerpt from Wikipedia on the conifer above. "Thuja occidentalis grows naturally in wet forests, being particularly abundant in coniferous swamps where other larger and faster-growing trees cannot compete successfully. It also occurs on other sites with reduced tree competition, such as cliffs. Although not currently listed as endangered, wild Thuja occidentalis populations are threatened in many areas by high deer numbers; deer find the soft evergreen foliage a very attractive winter food, and strip it rapidly."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja_occidentalis