{"id":74057,"date":"2020-09-25T05:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=74057"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:38:02","slug":"focusing-on-yellow-rumped-warblers-during-fall-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/09\/25\/focusing-on-yellow-rumped-warblers-during-fall-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing On Yellow-rumped Warblers During Fall Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fall Yellow-rumped Warbler in northern Utah<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Yesterday afternoon I spent thirty-one minutes photographing migrating Yellow-rumped Warblers close to home and those warblers kept me on my toes. There were so many Yellow-rumped Warblers that it made it hard for me to decide which warbler to focus on while they were busy hawking insects from the bare branches of a dead tree.<\/p>\n

I’ve been seeing Yellow-rumped Warblers in the Wasatch and Stansbury Mountains and down in the valley but not in great numbers until yesterday afternoon. I couldn’t count them because I was busy photographing the warblers but they seemed to be everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"Yellow-rumped<\/a><\/div><\/div>
\"Autumn<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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\"Defensive<\/a><\/div><\/div>
\"Yellow-rumped<\/a><\/div><\/div>
\"Yellow-rumped<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Click on the first image in the gallery above to start a slide show or to scroll through the larger images one by one.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yellow-rumped Warblers migrate a little later than other warblers do here in northern Utah because they can switch their diet from the insects they consume during the breeding season to berries in the fall.<\/p>\n

What I thought was unusual about the Yellow-rumped Warblers I photographed yesterday was that almost all of the warblers were facing towards the south in my photos except for the few that I photographed that were looking directly towards me. I don’t know why. I wish I did.<\/p>\n

What I do know is that I had a great time time photographing these fall Yellow-rumped Warblers<\/span><\/a> yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

There were so many images this morning that I am not providing my techs for each photo individually but I was using my Nikon D500 with my 500mm VR lens and a 1.4x TC attached. My ISO was set to 500.\u00a0 Shutter speeds varied between 1\/800 to 1\/1600. <\/em><\/p>\n

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

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