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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Ally on September 21, 2020, 01:18:32 PM

Title: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: Ally on September 21, 2020, 01:18:32 PM
The sun is beautiful today, so I went out in the morning
Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: Ally on September 21, 2020, 01:21:04 PM
I prefer solitary to others, I could get much closer
Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: Ally on September 21, 2020, 01:24:22 PM
A bunch of Canada geese had a group bath, the blue heron was not impressed at all, he flew away yelling something in Heronese.
Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: Ally on September 21, 2020, 01:30:22 PM
Is this your Nashville? I don't want to steal your bird, Shortsighted. I wonder where the chickadee got the sunflower seed in the woods.
Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: Shortsighted on September 21, 2020, 01:45:09 PM
Yes Ally, you have found a Nashville warbler. There must be quite a few in the city
for one to hang around my yard for two days and for you to have located one so quickly.
Now that you have photographed a juv. Nashville you will very likely be able to ID one
in the field with certainty. The white eye-ring is bold, no wing bars (like a Canada), yellow
throat, breast and belly, olive and gray on the wings and back. Now, find me a juv N. Parula.
Better yet, a juv Blackpoll. You may not know where you are much of the time but trust me,
you in da zone. If anyone can find something it will be you.
Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: takkatakka on September 23, 2020, 08:52:55 PM
Your first photo of a warbler looks like an Orange-crowned. The bird has an incomplete eye ring looking more like eye-arcs, a longer tail, duller flanks and less contrast between the head and back. Nashville should show a complete eye ring, a shorter tail, brighter yellow flanks, and contrast between a grey head and a more greenish back and wings as shown by your last two photos of a warbler.
Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 21
Post by: Ally on September 23, 2020, 09:30:05 PM
Quote from: "takkatakka"
Your first photo of a warbler looks like an Orange-crowned. The bird has an incomplete eye ring looking more like eye-arcs, a longer tail, duller flanks and less contrast between the head and back. Nashville should show a complete eye ring, a shorter tail, brighter yellow flanks, and contrast between a grey head and a more greenish back and wings as shown by your last two photos of a warbler.
Thanks a lot, I knew it's not a Nashville, but I thought it was a ruby crowned kinglet. Thanks for pointing out the incomplete eye ring. Some how I always have the impression the orange-crowned are rarer, so It was not my initial guess.