Black-and-White Warbler, Millennium Park
Please pardon this brief interruption.While I’ve been trying to get through other pictures for another post, I’ve been birding as usual on my infrequent lunch hours, interrupted by rain… (lots of it – maybe I should not have danced so hard through the drought?).
Chicago Loop in the rain
Yesterday on the way back from Millennium Park where I had basically seen nothing “new” and it started to rain again…I was carrying my 40D, an umbrella and the peanut bag, I had forgotten I had the camera on another setting for the rain pictures on the way in… and who should show up but my first-of-year Black-and-White Warbler, looking very bedraggled and wet, behaving like a Brown Creeper scaling the tree trunks, but definitely not a Brown Creeper.
In spite of the umbrella and the wrong setting a got a picture or two of the warbler anyway.
And here are a couple other volunteers from the park.
Common Grackle with nesting material
American Robin
The poor warbler is soaked! We too have heavy rain while I write this comment! Good shots Lisa!
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Thanks, HJ! It was tricky going out in between downpours but I’m glad the warbler made it worth it. 🙂
Isn’t it fun to see this stuff and have your camera with ya?? I love it, I carry mine always, cuz I never know what I can run into. Congrats!
Thanks, Bob! I don’t dare go almost anywhere without the camera this time of year. And bringing it down every day gets me out of the office…
I have never seen a black and white warbler..what a delightful little bird..all your photos are great..It is amazing what you can see if you just take time and look..have a great day..
Thanks, Syl! They behave a lot like nuthatches when the trees are full of leaves, climbing along the branches searching for insects. He would have looked a little better if he wasn’t so soaked. 🙂
thanks for the info..really appreciated it.
I can’t help myself. Birds have a way of getting under my skin. 🙂
I’ve never been able to get a shot of a Black and White Warbler, so good going, Lisa!
I’ve never been able to get a shot of a Black and White Warbler, so good going!
Thanks, Jo Ann! I just got lucky. It will be a lot harder when the leaves come in and all the warblers are way, way up at the tippy tops of the trees…I’ll be staring at undertail coverts trying to figure out who’s who.
I saw one of these the other day in the garden. I thought another good name for it would be Zebra Bird!
Congratulations on your B&W Warbler! Yep, Zebra Bird fits perfectly. 🙂