Local history for the birds

Miguel Delinquento

This young yellow bird popped up out of nowhere on Sunday morning when I was photographing hummingbirds who frequent flowering maple bushes right off my deck at home.



Pentax K20D, Pentax A*200mm + Kenko 1.5X TC, f 5.6 @ 1/180, ISO 400

I’m an Audubon slacker and initially ID’d the bird as a yellow warbler. Then a respected poster on another forum suggested a Connecticut Warbler. So I requested an ID from my web designer who leads the monthly Audubon walks here.

This has lead to a few rounds of additional expert opinion. The consensus is: a juvenile MacGillivray's Warbler. What’s cool is that no one has ever recorded a juvenile on the Island where I live before.

The current email debate is around the assumption that it was fledged here. I am expecting some "field researchers" to hang out on my deck during the next few days. The price of admission is a six pack--Widmer Hefeweizen and a little lemon sure helps crowd control in 93 degree weather.

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Harryb

Very nice capture in some challenging light. It looks like the highlights on the leg got blown but I don't see how that could have been avoided.

I like the vertical crop but would have left a tad more room on frame right.

Congrats on a special capture.

raptorcaptor

Great capture Miguel!