Warblers

All winter we see yellow rumped warblers and the occasional orange crowned, black and white, and pine warbler. But today, right in our yard, we got a northern parula and a yellow throated warbler. This is the first time we’ve ever been here for the start of the warbler migration. It has begun.

This morning we saw several crested caracara and a white tailed hawk from our patio. We went over to Paradise Pond in town this evening to see what was there and got another northern parula, plus black crowned and yellow crowned night herons, more yellow rumps, an orange crowned warbler, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher. Tonight in the dark, I got a flyover by an owl, probably a short-eared owl.

The yellow throated warbler loved the camera. The parula refused to pose.