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Lorimer Park Pa.
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Another double up;pad for the day. It's been a couple of years since I've been able to photograph a Warbling Vireo, but this fellow was pretty cooperative, inasmuch as Vireos go. More of him to come down the road. (Better in Lightbox)
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Lovely Blue-headed Vireo showing his great plumage, white spectacles, and beautiful bold white wingbars. They also have blue-gray legs and feet. Shot taken in early Spring.
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If you get the light reflecting right the iris will look red, sometimes very red. I got one of those this fall but this image is more special to me so I will post it instead this time. Why is this one special? It was taken in my backyard along our water feature. He/she stayed around about 3 days. This past week including today has been good for warblers in my yard foraging in the trees above and making an occasional visit to the water feature. That is beauty berry you see in the upper left. Near that but out of this view is pokeweed with its dark purple berries. Above that is a dogwood tree with red berries. Tonight a cold wave is coming so the yard migrants probably will be pushing off. Perhaps a few more stragglers will show up this fall but our fall migration is soon coming to an end here in north Georgia. It is satisfying to know that you can add a water feature to your yard and some native plants and help some of the migrants along their journey. It is a small way to give back to some of those species.
The rich song of the Warbling Vireo is a common sound in many parts of central and northern North America during summer. It’s a great bird to learn by ear, because its fast, rollicking song is its most distinctive feature. Otherwise, Warbling Vireos are fairly plain birds with gray-olive upperparts and white underparts washed with faint yellow. They have a mild face pattern with a whitish stripe over the eye. They stay high in deciduous treetops, where they move methodically among the leaves hunting for caterpillars.
Blue-headed Vireo ~ (Vireo solitarius)
I'm always happy to see the Blue-headed Vireos return to Florida during the winter months. I followed this one through the woods for 10 minutes before it decided to give me a clean look.
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A common bird in the southeast, the White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) is not often seen in New York. Indeed, this life bird for me was photographed in Indiana! White-eyed vireos are small, handsome birds with a unique bathing method. Instead of finding pools of water, they will rub themselves against wet leaves after a rainstorm or on a particularly dewy morning. Amazingly, this insectivore has been around for a while--fossil records have unearthed a white-eyed vireo that was around ~400,000 years ago! I wonder if it had the same bathing habits back then.