Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Black-throated blue times two

There's a great deal about warbler migration that's a mystery to me.  But I had a piece of luck today that helped me answer at least one question that's been bothering me:  namely, do individual warblers hang around my yard for more than one day?  I'd always suspected that the answer was sometimes yes.

It happens that on Monday of this week, I saw a black-throated blue warbler in the yard.  And on Tuesday.  And on Wednesday.  So were they they same individual?

By luck, I got photos on both Tuesday and Wednesday of the bird in the same posture at about the same location.

Here's Tuesday:


And here's Wednesday:


Now, looking at pictures of this species on Google, I see that the white wing patch is a bit individual: in some birds, it looks kind of like Iowa, where in others it's a bit more South Carolina, and so forth.

So here's a closeup of the wing patches from the pictures above:




I make it as the same bird. No?

Meanwhile, in other news, a pair of mourning doves has been nesting outside my back door, and they have been on the nest for what seems like forever.


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