{"id":89964,"date":"2020-10-01T05:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89964"},"modified":"2020-10-01T05:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:37:34","slug":"more-yellow-rumped-warblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/01\/more-yellow-rumped-warblers\/","title":{"rendered":"More Yellow-rumped Warblers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally seen and culled the 1900+ photos I took of these butter-butts a week ago today. The following day I posted two of them but since then I found more that I like so I’m including some of them today.<\/p>\n

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The warblers were attracted to all the insects flying over the surface of a pond. An old dead tree hangs over the pond and they were using its branches as hunting and launching platforms to hawk the bugs. Because the tree has been dead for several years the branches were sun-bleached and often fairly unattractive but the birds like them so I won’t bellyache about them.<\/p>\n

This bird has one of the insects it captured over the pond in its bill.<\/p>\n

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It may look like this warbler is singing but it was actually panting (more accurately called ‘gular fluttering’ in birds). That late afternoon temps were in the high 80’s and catching insects on the wing is a strenuous activity so quite a few of the warblers were panting.<\/p>\n

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In that old tree cluttered with dead twigs getting a fairly clean background was difficult. But this bird gave me a background with no distractions and several poses that I like including this one and…<\/p>\n

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this one.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a classic pose that shows off the namesake yellow rump of the species to its best advantage.<\/p>\n

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Here the piece of bark that had peeled off of the branch at bottom was still clinging to it. I wish the branch itself was sharper but I like the unbleached bark with far more character than most perches I got that day.<\/p>\n

A couple of days after these photos were taken I went back to this location looking for warblers but the tree was eerily quiet and devoid of birds of any kind.<\/p>\n

Migrating songbirds are nothing if they’re not ephemeral.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I’ve finally seen and culled the 1900+ photos I took of these butter-butts a week ago today. The following day I posted two of them but since then I found more that I like so I’m including some of them today.<\/p>\n

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