Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Steve Hood on January 01, 2015, 06:28:04 PM
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These were from Sedgewick Forest in Oakville this morning. My first warblers of the year. :)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7492/15546683844_c84a31041a_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pFNPtb)
Yellow Warbler?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7481/16168284092_570fb6cd40_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qCJFyQ)
Nashville Warbler
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Wow that's unbelievable that warblers are there in the middle of winter. Does anyone know if Sedgewick park has always been a good place for overwintering warblers (due to the nearby water treatment plant I'm guessing) or is this something of a recent phenomenon that these birds just discovered? Or is it a place that birders just discovered?
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This was my first time going there but I see that there have been online reports of winter Warblers at this location since at least 2009. There were reports of a Tennessee Warbler this past week so that probably gathered more interest than usual.
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Your first bird is the Tennessee Warbler. It's more yellow than usual, but greenish back, strong line over eye and white undertail coverts are diagnostic.
/Thomas
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Thanks Thomas. I didn't have any clear shots of the undertail and I wasn't sure about the line over the eye.
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Great pictures too, I was there today and the warblers weren't exactly posing, mostly hiding in the thickets and very difficult to get a clear view of. I spotted Nashville, Tennessee, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped. Missed the Wilson's.