{"id":58132,"date":"2019-05-25T05:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=58132"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:56:02","slug":"yellow-warbler-high-in-the-uinta-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/05\/25\/yellow-warbler-high-in-the-uinta-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Yellow Warbler High In The Uinta Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaleMale Northern Yellow Warbler hanging from an aspen – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year on the last day of May I was up in the Uinta Mountains where I photographed a moose up close<\/span><\/a>, Chipping Sparrows gathering nesting materials<\/span><\/a>, nesting House Wrens<\/span><\/a>, nesting Tree Swallows<\/span><\/a> and because life got busy I’d forgotten about another bird I photographed while I was there until I opened the folder with the images I had taken that day.<\/p>\n

The other bird I photographed that day in the high Uintas<\/span><\/a> was a gorgeous male Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in an aspen tree very close to where I sat inside a “mobile” blind at the edge of a dirt road.<\/p>\n

I took about fifty images of the warbler as he foraged in the bright sunshine but only a few turned out because the breeze that day kept blowing the aspen leaves in front of the bird.<\/p>\n

This photo turned out nicely and there weren’t any leaves in front of the Northern Yellow Warbler that was hanging nearly upside down from a branch. The warbler took off and moved to another closer but higher branch not long after I took this image.<\/p>\n

There is still a lot of snow this year up in the area of the Uintas where I photographed this Northern Yellow Warbler last spring and I am wondering if that has slowed down the nesting season up there at all. I’d sure love to get up there soon and see if I can locate more nesting sapsuckers, wrens, swallows, and warblers to photograph this year. Photographing few moose would delight me too!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Northern Yellow Warbler photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n

I kept this post short and sweet (what could be sweeter than a glorious Northern Yellow Warbler) because there is finally a chance I can get out to photograph birds this morning… if the clouds cooperate that is.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other bird I photographed that day in the high Uintas was a gorgeous male Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in an aspen tree very close to where I sat inside a “mobile” blind at the edge of a dirt road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1212,2281,1731,3886,5219,26],"tags":[1919,4897,5370,6454,6583,4062,4069,3887,6576,7791,2282,165,4427,3888,3889],"class_list":["post-58132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-high-uintas-utah","category-yellow-warblers","category-summit-county-utah","category-uinta-national-forest","category-uinta-wasatch-cache-national-forest","category-utah","tag-aspen","tag-branch","tag-forest","tag-hanging","tag-leaves","tag-male","tag-mountains","tag-yellow-warbler","tag-populus-tremuloides","tag-quaking-aspen","tag-setophaga-aestiva","tag-spring","tag-tree","tag-warbler","tag-warblers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t