outdoor photography

Black & White Warbler Ugh. I've been a terrible blogger lately. This is my first post in two weeks! However, Central Winds has become increasingly fun over the last couple weeks, with a larger variety of migrants coming through.  There are also fewer numbers of Northern Parula (sometimes I'd see about 50 or so in the park), so it's easier to pick out other species. The park has also given me some of my better photographs of some species, so I figured I'd share a collection of photos from the last two weeks (when I last posted). Yellow Warbler Yellow Warblers have been quite common here, and sometimes I've seen as many as 5.  But for some reason they have not been that cooperative for photos until a couple days ago.  One found a nice snack low enough for me to get a decent shot, finally. Black & White Warbler Prairie Warbler Prairie Warblers and Black and White Warblers have also been pretty common here, but the Black-and-whites have bee...

Chestnut-sided Warbler I had another really fun morning at Central Winds.  I found almost the exact same set of warblers as yesterday, but instead of a Palm Warbler, I found a couple Chestnut-sided Warblers.  In my book that's an upgrade for sure. It was very dark and cloudy, though, so I had to shoot this at 2500 ISO (I don't use flash). But there's a lot of green here and not a lot of blue, so it's not as terrible as it could be.  I did some work on the background to make this look moderately presentable.

Chestnut-sided Warbler I had a great morning at Central Winds. It's always fun to find a Chestnut-sided Warbler, but I ended up with eleven warblers. I got out of my car and had 6 warbler species in the same tree right next to my car, including two early Palm Warblers, a Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, and Yellow-throated Warbler.  The earliest I've seen a fall Palm Warbler at Central Winds is on September 24 in 2012, so these two are pretty early. A walk around the park yielded 5 more species before I left around 9am.  I found several Ovenbirds, a Prothonotary Warbler, a couple Chestnut-sided Warblers, a Pine Warbler, and a few Prairie Warblers. Pileated Woodpecker