<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: Yellow Warbler Eating An Aphid </title> <atom:link href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:27:55 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title> By: Chris Sanborn </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190447</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Sanborn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:27:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190447</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190416">Ron Dudley</a>. I’m a big-time water saver here—the drought is unrelenting, as you know—so yucky fingers are a small sacrifice, more precise, too. I know the plants would like the overspray, but they get some of that when I rinse my fingers using a bucket of (saved) water!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190416">Ron Dudley</a>.</p> <p>I’m a big-time water saver here—the drought is unrelenting, as you know—so yucky fingers are a small sacrifice, more precise, too. I know the plants would like the overspray, but they get some of that when I rinse my fingers using a bucket of (saved) water!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ron Dudley </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190422</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Dudley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:06:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190422</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190421">Marty K</a>. Thank you, Marty.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190421">Marty K</a>.</p> <p>Thank you, Marty.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Marty K </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190421</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marty K]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:04:57 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190421</guid> <description><![CDATA[You definitely scored on Degree of Difficulty! Amazing image and detail!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You definitely scored on Degree of Difficulty! Amazing image and detail!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ron Dudley </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190420</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Dudley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190420</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190418">Lyle Anderson</a>. Thanks, Lyle.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190418">Lyle Anderson</a>.</p> <p>Thanks, Lyle.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ron Dudley </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190419</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Dudley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:01:39 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190419</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190417">Elephants Child</a>. EC, as you mention their huge families are also part of the equation - both in the damage they do and in the amount of food they provide for birds.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190417">Elephants Child</a>.</p> <p>EC, as you mention their huge families are also part of the equation – both in the damage they do and in the amount of food they provide for birds.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Lyle Anderson </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190418</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyle Anderson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 18:20:25 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190418</guid> <description><![CDATA[Amazing detail: feathers, eye ring, and seeing that the aphid is not smashed seems to speak to the sensitivity of its beak.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing detail: feathers, eye ring, and seeing that the aphid is not smashed seems to speak to the sensitivity of its beak.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Elephants Child </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190417</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elephants Child]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190417</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hooray for the warbler! Aphids might be tiny but they also seem to need to eat a lot (they and their huge family seem to need to eat a lot). And how amazing to be able to crop so much and retain detail. Loud applause.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hooray for the warbler! Aphids might be tiny but they also seem to need to eat a lot (they and their huge family seem to need to eat a lot).<br /> And how amazing to be able to crop so much and retain detail. Loud applause.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ron Dudley </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190416</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Dudley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:22:12 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190416</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190414">Chris Sanborn</a>. "It’s kind of satisfying but I’d rather have the warblers!" I get that, Chris. Have you tried spraying them off with a hose?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190414">Chris Sanborn</a>.</p> <p>“It’s kind of satisfying but I’d rather have the warblers!”</p> <p>I get that, Chris. Have you tried spraying them off with a hose?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ron Dudley </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190415</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Dudley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:20:48 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190415</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190413">Ellen Blackstone</a>. Said from the heart by a gardener I'll bet.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190413">Ellen Blackstone</a>.</p> <p>Said from the heart by a gardener I’ll bet.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Chris Sanborn </title> <link>https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2021/06/05/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid/#comment-190414</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Sanborn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:02:10 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/?p=98959#comment-190414</guid> <description><![CDATA[Such a beautiful little bird, nice of him to find the perfect spot to pose for you. I regret I don’t have enough warblers visit my yard to counteract the number of aphids who do! So I end up scraping them off the stems or leaves of plants (milkweed for Monarchs, in particular) with my fingers and end up with a yucky orange mess. It’s kind of satisfying but I’d rather have the warblers!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such a beautiful little bird, nice of him to find the perfect spot to pose for you. I regret I don’t have enough warblers visit my yard to counteract the number of aphids who do! So I end up scraping them off the stems or leaves of plants (milkweed for Monarchs, in particular) with my fingers and end up with a yucky orange mess. It’s kind of satisfying but I’d rather have the warblers!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>