Mead Gardens 4/13/2013

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Black-and-white Warbler
It was a pretty good morning at Mead Gardens.  The biggest highlight of the morning was seeing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, but it spent most of its time hidden, and photos were pretty much impossible. We had 11 species of warbler, though: Ovenbird, Worm-eating Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Cape May Warbler, Northern Parula, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Palm Warbler, Pine Warbler, and Prairie Warbler.  Palm and Yellow-rumped Warblers were all but gone (I saw two Palms and no Yellow-rumped, but we found at least 10 Prairie Warblers. I'm not very happy with the next two photos, but at least they show a couple of the more interesting birds that we saw this morning.

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Black-throated Blue Warbler
I know it's a little soft, due to noise and shutter speed (I don't use flash), but I thought it
might be good to show an ID photo of the bird
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Cape May Warbler
I know it's a little soft and the bird did not give me good views, but I thought it
might be good to show an ID photo of the bird
And it was fun also to see a Zebra Longwing Butterfly.

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Zebra Longwing Butterfly

Comments

  1. Why do you continually post soft or out of focus pictures. This certainly doesn't do your repoutation as a photographer any good?

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  2. Sometimes in field reports I post soft photos of unusual or recently-arrived species. This is because many borders just want to know the bird was there. So occasionally I post "id" photos if I think most people would rather see a soft photo than none. And I usually say something to that effect, as I did above. Perhaps I should be more clear and write it on the captions.

    I've gone back and forth on this though. Given the title of my blot sometimes I think I should only show my best. Other times my desire just to let people see that a bird was thee takes over. Perhaps I should stick to the bloc title.

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