Today in Valley Forge

View on Instagram instagr.am/p/CFdOa02AcG7/

Paid a visit to what seems to be a favorite hangout for warblers and was rewarded with this lifer.

Photographed 17 October 2021, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Body: Sony A7 iii

Lens: Sony 200-600mm

www.studebakerstudio.com

.

.

.

.

#tennesseewarbler

#warbler

#warblercrazy

#warblersofinstagram

#bns_birds

#your_best_birds

#kings_birds

#feather_perfection

#birds_adored

#eye_spy_bird

#planetbirds

#birdsandblooms

#birds_private

#birdfreaks

#birdsonearth

#ip_birds

#nuts_about_birds

#sassy_birds

#thebirdingsquad

#nature_worldwide_birds

#dailybirdpix

#birdsplace

#igbirds

#fallmigration

#studebakerbirdtours

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Plantation Preserve, Plantation, FL

10/3/24

Thanks for viewing!

A brief tussle for possession of a prime perch.

Palm warbler

DJH02889-Edit

Search, and you shall find

A Chestnut-sided Warbler I found while looking for the Townsend's Warbler in Peaceful Waters Sanctuary, in Wellington, FL.

Thanks for viewing and for any favs or comments!

Monarch butterfly migration through Oklahoma City, September 28, 2018. The monarchs had spent the day feeding on butterfly bushes, native sunflowers, and other flowers that they could find.

Pheucticus ludovicianus ... The Grosbeaks are visiting this week on their way south, eating up all the Dogwood Tree berries.

-Pfuhlschnepfe-

~Helgoland 2021~

Backyard garden

Red-eyed Vireo, one of 5 feeding together in a Fruiting Fig tree in the Long Key Natural Area, Davie, FL.

9/24/24

Thanks for viewing!

Bay-breasted warbler

DJH01314-Edit

Sightings, photos of the "little birds" (ruby-throated hummingbirds) in the garden are diminishing as Fall pushes on... Little bird population in the garden down to only a "few" birds...

Lots of snow here now ( 6inches) This bird made my 108th species for the year at Isle Lake Alberta. The largest annual count we every have had there.

Last fall,these butterflies came through in large numbers,

Quebec,Canada

...with a small grub she'd just picked off one of our pine trees

Galveston, Texas

This cutie looks like he had the tip of his tail dipped in white paint... so special.

It's so hot here, and we've lost our summer rain-every-afternoon summer season ... turned on the sprinklers this morning and look! Another of these great birds for me, a Yellow-throated Warbler showed up to play in the sprinklers. There were Blue Jays, Northern Cardinals, and a couple of Tufted Titmice-skies too. If you knew how wonderful this surprise was for me, you'd be smiling as big as I am! I've been too sick to go anywhere lately, and it's fall migration!!! Thankful for this blessing.

I almost didn't post this photo. It felt wrong to take a photo of the young swan who had just lost his parent and was undoubtedly grieving. He stayed by the lifeless, half eaten body of an adult swan for two days, waiting for it to wake up and care for him again. (Tundra swan cygnets stay with their parents for the first winter, sometimes even two years.) He didn't join the other swans who were in a distance. He didn't fly south with them. He just stood on the ice, looking at his deceased mom or dad. For two days.

Nature is so beautiful, yet cruel and unforgiving.

Grace and Peace little one ❤️

~Goldie Hawn

It was a pleasant surprise to run into these bold little birds.

Cooper Marsh,Lancaster,Ontario

A brief tussle for possession of a prime perch.

This seems to be one of many peoples' favorite warbler! The Fall adult male on the upper left is a duller version of its Spring plumage with the cheek patch not being as solid black in the fall and the black Spring throat sometimes not apparent at all (there is some black apparent in the throat of this individual). The first fall male and the fall female plumages don't have a black cheek patch but rather both have a black posterior eye-line instead but they often can be told apart. The fall female on the bottom right has less dense black side striping along the white sides and has some buff in the sides as well. A first fall female would look much the same but some may have a good amount of buff in the cheek area as well.

The upper right shows a first fall male which has very dense black side striping much like that of an adult male but without any buff in the plumage like that of a female of this species whatever the age of the female.

All of the above images are from this fall migration and were taken in the Georgia Mountains.

Photographed 17 October 2021, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Body: Sony A7 iii

Lens: Sony 200-600mm

Sandhill Cranes fly over wetland areas on Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon.

Ontario

it was feeding among the dune grasses.

This is a difficult warbler species to age and sex especially in the fall. It is not reliable in that regard to just look at the amount and intensity of the black side striping. This individual however is easy to age and sex. He has a lot of black on his over tail coverts rather than olive. He has black remnants on his olive back and also on his face. He also has a flare of white supercillium remaining. I was delighted to get the chance to photograph this bird. We see a lot of fall Maggies passing south through Georgia but this plumage extreme at close range with open views in favorable light was a special treat.

A small flock of migrating Yellow-rumped warblers flitted through the small trees and brush along side of Wildwing Lake, Kensington Park, Michigan.

Too cute not to paint and share! So many of these this year!

Backyard

Woodcock Lake, PA

Carter's Lake Songbird trail. 9/21/2016. Considered a rarity in Georgia this species is very reliable this time of year at this location. Right now tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and rose-breasted grosbeaks are all there in good numbers. The location has many sorts of fruiting plants and vines along with plenty of water. It is a great place for these species to fuel up before continuing on migration southward.

Backyard

Not the best lighting, but a lifer shot for me.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet found this week... love those little cuties!

From West Virginia this week.

www.studebakerstudio.com

.

.

.

.

#mourningwarbler

#warbler

#warblercrazy

#warblersofinstagram

#bns_birds

#your_best_birds

#kings_birds

#feather_perfection

#birds_adored

#eye_spy_bird

#planetbirds

#birdsandblooms

#birds_private

#birdfreaks

#birdsonearth

#ip_birds

#nuts_about_birds

#sassy_birds

#thebirdingsquad

#nature_worldwide_birds

#dailybirdpix

#birdsplace

#igbirds

#fallmigration

#dollysods