Yellow Warbler in a thicket of willows
I’m grateful that I am still seeing quite a few Yellow Warblers in the Wasatch Mountains because they will be migrating soon. I looked it up and found out that my last sighting of this species in 2018 was on the 16th of September which was a bird with a missing or injured eye and at that time most of the other Yellow warblers had left about two weeks prior to my seeing that warbler.
There are only a few more weeks now for me to enjoy photographing and observing these golden bundles of joy and although I will miss them while they are gone I am also happy since it appears that they had a successful breeding season with all of the young Yellow Warblers I have seen the past few weeks. For a little while the shrubs and trees seemed to be dripping with them everywhere I looked in the high mountain canyons.
When this hatch year Yellow Warbler popped out into an open area of a willow thicket in a beam of sunlight I was happy to take its photo.
Life is good.
Mia
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Adorable, I hope I see a few Sunday morning.
Wonderful to hear that they had a successful breeding season. Safe travels to them.
What a cutie! Glad you found this little guy. 🙂
Akeays enjoying ypur pictures
My husband was a big fan of yours.
Very interesting shot Mia. This shot should be in a book or at least shown so we (the birding public) can see which of the 4 subspecies this fellow belongs. Checking field guides that show pictures of the 4 subspecies this picture would be great so we would know to which subspecies it belongs. Thanks for sharing.