Colonel Sam Smith Aug 22
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Colonel Sam Smith Aug 22

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I got there close to 9. So quite happy with what I got.
Really wanted a Canada Warbler after I saw what Shortsighted posted, I guess sometimes you just have to wish really hard. ;D


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I love when the birds smile.


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The juvis are so cute. This is a Pine warbler, right?


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I am gobsmacked at the number of birds you managed to find and photograph so late in the morning. I find that by 9 o'clock there is very little to see, or to hear. Today it quieted right down after 7:45 a.m. Just when the light gets better the warblers vanish. Your Pine warbler is a juvenile Bay-breasted. You can see the streaks on its back and a slight blush of ruddy on its flank. BTW, your third shot is a Canada warbler. Yellow throat and breast and belly, white undertail, dark necklace of obsidian (although faint on your bird) around the breast, white eye ring. A Nashville has yellow under the tail instead of white and it doesn't have the necklace. Both species tend to be steely gray-blue on the crown and back and have a bold white eye ring. This all pertains to the juvenile bird.
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I am gobsmacked at the number of birds you managed to find and photograph so late in the morning. I find that by 9 o'clock there is very little to see, or to hear. Today it quieted right down after 7:45 a.m. Just when the light gets better the warblers vanish. Your Pine warbler is a juvenile Bay-breasted. You can see the streaks on its back and a slight blush of ruddy on its flank. BTW, your third shot is a Canada warbler. Yellow throat and breast and belly, white undertail, dark necklace of obsidian (although faint on your bird) around the breast, white eye ring. A Nashville has yellow under the tail instead of white and it doesn't have the necklace. Both species tend to be steely gray-blue on the crown and back and have a bold white eye ring. This all pertains to the juvenile bird.
Thanks. I saw a Nashvile as well.
But you got a Prairie today! I guess I now have more wishing to do! ;D ;D


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You saw more species than I did and you didn't even need to get up at 6:30. I was hoping for a better shot of a Nashville today and was quite surprised by the Prairie. I've never definitively seen one before. Still no Cape May, despite everyone else seeing them in numbers. I wonder why?The Canada that I saw today was in deep shadow. I got off only one frame and that was blurred because of the slow shutter speed, something that would likely not have happened at 11 a.m. The Prairie actually flew right down beside me at one point but that friendly meet & greet was also in persistent gloom. I got off three frame. In one shot it was turned away and in the other it has just taken off to create catastrophic motion blur. Even the one shot I got in that gloom was soft-focus because of slow shutter speed. Most of the birds were much farther away from me so I could have used a longer lens, but I do what I can. These cool mornings are terrific. I wasn't expecting it in August.