{"id":72457,"date":"2020-08-05T06:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=72457"},"modified":"2021-05-15T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T15:31:19","slug":"immature-macgillivrays-warbler-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/08\/05\/immature-macgillivrays-warbler-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature MacGillivray’s Warbler Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ImmatureImmature MacGillivray’s Warbler perched in a serviceberry \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 500, -0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a birdy kind of morning yesterday in the high country of the Wasatch Mountains<\/span><\/a>. The locations that were birdy two weeks ago aren’t nearly as birdy now as they were but locations that weren’t very birdy at all have become more birdy and I plan on focusing on those areas more in the next few weeks. I promise I won’t write birdy again… this morning.<\/p>\n

The fruits of the serviceberries even at the higher elevations of this canyon have begun to ripen and I saw several species of birds in them. Some birds were eating the juicy berries and some were gleaning insects from the leaves and branches of the shrubs.<\/p>\n

One of the birds I had in my viewfinder for a few moments yesterday morning was an immature MacGillivray’s Warbler where it perched on the branches of a serviceberry at the edge of a dusty, gravel road.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature MacGillivray’s Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, -0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m going to try to get to this location earlier in the morning when the light is softer than it was at a few minutes after 9 am yesterday. The sun was already getting high and that meant more shadows than I would have liked in these photos.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature MacGillivray’s Warbler and ripe serviceberries \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, -0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I wondered if this young MacGillivray’s Warbler might not have been from the nest I knew about and where I photographed adults building their nest and bringing food to their chicks earlier this year but after thinking about it last evening I realized that although it is possible that this bird hatched from that nest it is more likely that it didn’t.<\/p>\n

I recall that there were more than two adults in the area of that nest early in the spring and that there are likely many more MacGillivray’s Warblers in the area.<\/p>\n

Me? I was just happy to have this young warbler in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my MacGillivray’s Warbler photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the birds I had in my viewfinder for a few moments yesterday morning was an immature MacGillivray’s Warbler where it perched on the branches of a serviceberry at the edge of a dusty, gravel road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72456,"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":[27,7345,4594,26,773],"tags":[6523,6605,6666,3940,6667,7672,7346,4067,7347,4069,4104,7283,7289,6698,6522,3888,3889,6492,4193],"class_list":["post-72457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-macgillivrays-warblers","category-morgan-county","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-amelanchier-utahensis","tag-berries","tag-berry","tag-canyon","tag-fruit","tag-fruits","tag-geothlypis-tolmiei","tag-immature","tag-macgillivrays-warbler","tag-mountains","tag-perched","tag-ripe","tag-serviceberries","tag-serviceberry","tag-utah-serviceberry","tag-warbler","tag-warblers","tag-wood-warblers","tag-young"],"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