Black-and-white Warbler / Spring 2024
Middle Georgia. I was shooting with a client this day and one of his asks was this species with purple flowers. I'm glad it worked out. We spent relatively little time with this bird and had him singing on a redbud and an ornamental white flowering cherry too. We didn't try any of that until I found this bird quickly and easily took a fallen and slightly raised horizontal tree and scooted along it in nuthatch fashion as one might expect of this species. The bird is perched on a limb of that tree that is closest to the ground. The purple flowers were placed in their pots directly behind this perch. Very little playback was used but how it was used is the key or this would never be possible. Playback is so misunderstood and so often improperly used and overused. Such a beautiful species and an early arrival to middle Georgia.
Black-and-white Warbler / Spring 2024
Middle Georgia. I was shooting with a client this day and one of his asks was this species with purple flowers. I'm glad it worked out. We spent relatively little time with this bird and had him singing on a redbud and an ornamental white flowering cherry too. We didn't try any of that until I found this bird quickly and easily took a fallen and slightly raised horizontal tree and scooted along it in nuthatch fashion as one might expect of this species. The bird is perched on a limb of that tree that is closest to the ground. The purple flowers were placed in their pots directly behind this perch. Very little playback was used but how it was used is the key or this would never be possible. Playback is so misunderstood and so often improperly used and overused. Such a beautiful species and an early arrival to middle Georgia.