{"id":134053,"date":"2024-09-07T02:50:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=134053"},"modified":"2024-09-06T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:57:02","slug":"immature-pine-warbler-in-early-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/09\/07\/immature-pine-warbler-in-early-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Pine Warbler In Early September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing and photographing an immature Pine Warbler yesterday morning made me smile. I was standing up when I saw the young warbler land on a vine in good light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-134047 size-full\" title=\"Immature Pine Warbler in September\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954.jpg\" alt=\"Immature Pine Warbler in September, Sebastian County, Arkansas\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-6954.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Immature Pine Warbler in September \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/200, ISO 1600, +0.3 EV, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had been focused on another bird in the trees to the southwest that I couldn&#8217;t see from my chair. When I spotted the Pine Warbler, I quickly aimed my lens, focused, and took many images of the bird.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I wasn&#8217;t sure whether the warbler was a female or an immature bird. I couldn&#8217;t see a fleshy gape, so I planned to label the Pine Warbler as female\/immature.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Pine_Warbler\/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AllAboutBirds.org<\/span><\/a> and discovered something I hadn\u2019t known before. Under a photo of an immature Pine Warbler, I found this statement: &#8220;Immature birds vary from gray to pale yellow, but they all have a white eyering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked at my photos and the white eyering stood out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-134046 size-full\" title=\"Young Pine Warbler near the end of summer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017.jpg\" alt=\"Young Pine Warbler near the end of summer, Sebastian County, Arkansas\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Young Pine Warbler near the end of summer \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/250, ISO 1600, +0.3 EV, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having a great time seeing, hearing, and photographing Pine Warblers. Pine Warblers are a species I never saw, heard, or photographed in Utah. My galleries now contain adult males, a female, and young Pine Warblers of at least two ages.<\/p>\n<p>My next self-challenge? I want to take videos of the males singing in the spring. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/xeno-canto.org\/726837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">songs<\/span><\/a> are quite lovely to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I plan to photograph Pine Warblers whenever I have the opportunity. They are terrific subjects, and I hope to find more of them soon.<\/p>\n<p>Life<em> is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/pine-warbler-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Pine Warbler photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing and photographing an immature Pine Warbler yesterday morning made me smile. I was standing up when I saw the young warbler land on a vine in good light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[27,14916],"tags":[13931,4067,4104,14917,14918,2315,8018,3888,3889,6492,13966,4193],"class_list":["post-134053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-pine-warblers","tag-garden","tag-immature","tag-perched","tag-pine-warbler","tag-setophaga-pinus","tag-summer-3","tag-urban","tag-warbler","tag-warblers","tag-wood-warblers","tag-yard","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/pine-warbler-immature-arkansas-mia-mcpherson-7017.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-yS9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132730,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/08\/19\/immature-pine-warbler-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":134053,"position":0},"title":"Immature Pine Warbler Images","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Pine Warblers hadn't been around in a while, but they have come back, so I was excited and delighted to take immature Pine Warbler photos three days ago.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Arkansas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Arkansas","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/arkansas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Immature Pine Warbler in Arkansas, Sebastian County","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pine-warbler-immature-summer-mia-mcpherson-1888.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pine-warbler-immature-summer-mia-mcpherson-1888.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pine-warbler-immature-summer-mia-mcpherson-1888.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pine-warbler-immature-summer-mia-mcpherson-1888.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135453,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/10\/10\/focusing-on-fall-pine-warbler-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":134053,"position":1},"title":"Focusing On Fall Pine Warbler Photos","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"October 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I am focused on sharing three Pine Warbler photos taken early yesterday. Each of the three Pine Warblers were on very different perches.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Arkansas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Arkansas","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/arkansas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pine Warbler perched on shed deer antlers, Sebastian County, Arkansas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pine-warbler-autumn-mia-mcpherson-4812.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pine-warbler-autumn-mia-mcpherson-4812.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pine-warbler-autumn-mia-mcpherson-4812.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pine-warbler-autumn-mia-mcpherson-4812.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":138770,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/01\/15\/male-pine-warbler-in-snow-in-arkansas\/","url_meta":{"origin":134053,"position":2},"title":"Male Pine Warbler In Snow In Arkansas","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning's share is pretty simple: a handsome male Pine Warbler came in after the snowstorm here in Arkansas. 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