{"id":88934,"date":"2020-08-26T05:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=88934"},"modified":"2020-08-26T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:51:13","slug":"macgillivrays-warbler-big-stretch-for-aphids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/macgillivrays-warbler-big-stretch-for-aphids\/","title":{"rendered":"MacGillivray’s Warbler – Big Stretch For Aphids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: I have serious mud on my face. This is a male Nashville Warbler, not a female MacGillivray’s Warbler. Sheesh…<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A fun surprise in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Until this year I’d never managed to get any decent photos of MacGillivray’s Warblers and even sightings of them had been rare. Their remote distribution and elusive behavior make them a notoriously difficult quarry for both birders and bird photographers but this summer I’ve had just a little more luck with them.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"88935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/macgillivrays-warbler-big-stretch-for-aphids\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1598343111","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.000125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"macgillivray’s warbler 1116 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88935 size-full\" title=\"macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1116-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning this female made a brief appearance in a willow as she was foraging for insects. For a few moments she poked around in the cluster of leaves directly in front of her face. As she was doing so she spotted hordes of juicy aphids on the terminal leaf cluster at the end of the twig she was using as a perch.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she thought the twig would be too spindly to support her weight if she moved to the end of it in order to get at the aphids so instead she…<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"88937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/macgillivrays-warbler-big-stretch-for-aphids\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1598343118","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.000125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"macgillivray’s warbler 1160 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley-300x240.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88937 size-full\" title=\"macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley-350x280.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>performed a big stretch to get at them which put less weight on the end of the twig.<\/p>\n<p>I took many photos of her as she was harvesting the numerous aphids but in many of them part of her face was obscured or I didn’t have any light in her eye. This was the best shot I managed to get and I like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"88936\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/macgillivrays-warbler-big-stretch-for-aphids\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1598343116","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.000125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"macgillivray’s warbler 1154 big crop ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88936 size-full\" title=\"macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1154-big-crop-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we can see in this huge crop of a different photo she had more than enough aphids to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves aren’t looking so good but that’s to be expected with so many aphids sucking their sap. In addition to weakening plants by sucking sap aphids act as vectors for plant viruses and disease and disfigure plants with deposits of honeydew that results in the growth of sooty molds.<\/p>\n<p>But this time of year aphids are an almost limitless source of food for birds so that at least is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em>PS – Even though I really screwed up my initial ID of this bird I’m even more excited that it’s a Nashville Warbler instead of a MacGillivray’s Warbler because that makes this bird a new life bird for me photographically. In Utah the Nashville Warbler is listed\u00a0 as an ‘uncommon migrant’.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I botched the ID because I didn’t notice that this bird has a complete eye ring instead of the broken eye ring of the MacGillivray’s Warbler. Pay attention Bub!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun surprise in the mountains yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/macgillivrays-warbler-big-stretch-for-aphids\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,8,392,5160],"tags":[4654,137,5162,5306,311,318],"class_list":["post-88934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-ecology-and-environment","category-feeding-bird-behaviors","category-macgillivrays-warblers","tag-eating-aphids","tag-female","tag-geothlypis-tolmiei","tag-nashville-warbler","tag-utah-2","tag-wasatch-mountains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/macgillivrays-warbler-1160-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-n8q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}