What a gorgeous day! Absolutely perfect weather. Wonderful day for the AMNH walk! Not a lot of birds though. Well, except for the hordes of these guys:
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| yellow-rumped warbler |
And these guys, who seemed like they wanted to dive-bomb us a couple of times:
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| palm warbler |
Other than that, pretty quiet. But there was a particularly bright spot. This guy was taken to rehabbers and released a day or two ago, and he's been the talk of the park ever since.
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| prothonetary warbler |
I love this picture even though it's not very sharp, with just a little stipe of sunlight. Wow!
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| prothonetary warbler |
He was pretty confiding. In this shot you can see that part of his upper mandible (beak) is missing.
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| prothonetary warbler |
That was all we had time for on the walk, so afterwards I headed over to the oven hoping to find a green heron I had heard some rumors about. It turns out this was a spectacularly easy bird to find.
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| green heron |
Look how gorgeous!!!!!
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| green heron |
Back at the upper lobe, this egret was in the middle of swallowing an impressive fish.
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| great egret |
It's not going down easy.
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That was all we had time for on the walk,
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And this parula came by, my first of the season! So a day not filled with huge numbers of birds, but filled with wonderful sightings of gorgeous birds. And then I had to high-tail it home or be late for the rest of my day.
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| northen parula |
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