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1\/3200, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Five days ago this female Yellow Warbler popped up onto a willow branch overhanging a pond in the mountains. She wasn’t particularly close but she posed nicely against a clean background, she’s sharp and I like the composition of the image. I always enjoy photographing birds in classic settings for the species. Willows and Yellow Warblers just seem to go together, so much so that Cornell’s Birds of North America begins their introductory paragraph on Yellow Warblers this way:.<\/p>\n Yellow Warblers are both abundant and widespread so they don’t generate as much excitement amongst birders and bird photographers as some of the less abundant warbler species but they’re one of my favorites. They’re so colorful and cheery, who couldn’t love them?<\/p>\n They’re one of our earliest fall migrants, beginning to head south in mid-July, so we’d best enjoy them while we can.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On a completely unrelated note:<\/em><\/p>\n Several days ago in the Stansbury Mountains while I was waiting at a flowering bush for hummingbirds that never did show up this lizard was snagging insects from a rock directly below my pickup window. I had to take ‘his’ photo but now I’m curious about what species it is.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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