Juveniles

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Three juveniles, two of which are warblers.  It's hard to say if the Blackpoll is a Bay-breasted, or as I've ID'ed it.  The eye-line is not that strong but the breast has dusty streaking.  Unfortunately I couldn't see the back, or the legs.  A Bay-breasted is usually a brighter yellow-green and not such a dull olive green.



Possible juvenile Blackpoll warbler



Juvenile Chestnut-sided warbler


Juvenile Cedar waxwing

[Charline]

All very good! You have been working hard! 

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From this morning:


Juvenile Chestnut-sided warbler



Juvenile Black & White warbler


Scruffy juvenile Tennessee warbler

[Dr. John]

This is my first time seeing juvenile cedar waxwing.  The mottled pattern is lovely.

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I'm glad that you enjoy the photos because I certainly enjoy taking them ... most of the time.  Please find below more from this morning:
August 14th


Juvenile Blackburnian warbler


Same


Same


Juvenile Cape May warbler


Same


Same



Juvenile Chestnut-sided warbler

I'm planning to go out again tomorrow morning.  Hopefully I'll manage to leave earlier than I did during the last two days.  Getting to a park by 7 o'clock is too late, so I'll need to get up at about 5:30 a.m.  By 7 o'clock the park employees are already out and about setting up for day camp and they make a lot of noise.  Juvenile warblers seem most active from sunrise to about 8 o'clock, after which time ... forget it!  By Friday it will be too humid for me ... and it might rain, off and on, for the next three days after that.

BTW,  I've got another plant for you under NATURE.  It's easy.

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Slow morning despite getting up earlier.  Impressionist sunrise over nuclear plant.  Monet did get it right, although he couldn't imagine a nuclear plant.  Hardly any birds.  Juvenile Am. redstart (no photo), B&W (just missed a photo), Blackburnian (no photo), Yellow-rumped (scruffy), Gnatcatcher(attitude), RE vireo (dark shot), Warbling vireo, Cape May ... lots of chickadees.


Scruffy Great crested flycatcher


Warbling vireo


Juvenile Cape May


Blue-gray gnatcatcher


Scruffy juvenile Yellow-rumped
 

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My early arrival was greeted by the tangerine in the sky.  The same tangerine witnessed by Monet.  A tangerine of hope for the day?  A fruitless notion you think.  It is what you make of it.  I think of Nabokov ... every separate day in the year is a gift presented only to [one person] - the happiest one; all other people use [that] day, to enjoy the sunshine or berate the rain, never knowing, however, to whom that day really belongs; and its fortunate owner is pleased and amused by their ignorance.  I know that paraphrasing Nabokov has rendered bitter some morning coffee and  resulted, perhaps, in an extra dose of sugar, which is another arrow in the heart of insulin and another notch to the belt.  Does that make me evil?

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NW wind overnight brought some juveniles out:


Magnolia warbler


American redstart


Nashville warbler


Least flycatcher


Magnolia warbler


American redstart


Scruffy Gray catbird


Shade-loving Northern waterthrush


Northern waterthrush


Common yellowthroat




American redstart


Magnolia warbler




Humminbird

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August 21st:  Sunny with a breeze.  11 degrees when I got out and 16 degrees when I left.  Pickering bluff-side park 6:45 a.m. until 8:30 a.m.




Juvenile Least flycatcher (buffy wing bars)


American redstart (male)








Juvenile Cape May warbler


Gray catbird


Juvenile Magnolia warbler


Juvenile Northern parula


Juvenile Chestnut-sided warbler




Red-eyed vireo