Picture Perfect

Cape May Warbler – female
Dendroica tigrina

Today, I left work a wee bit early (and by early, I mean that I left after only 8.5 hours), and met my wife at Palmyra Cove to ‘see what we could see’. That turned out to be a veritable smorgasboard of warblers and other cool birds, including this gorgeous Cape May Warbler, one about about 2 dozen we saw. She actually flew down toward us and landed about .5m between Shari and I, checking us out.

We also saw: eastern phoebes, eastern wood-pewee, Palm Warbler (eastern and western), Magnolia, Nashville and Black-throated Blue Warblers, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Snow and Indigo Buntings, Red- and White-eyed Vires, American Redstarts, Common Yellowthroats, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (well, Shari did) as well as the normal suspects. All in all, one of the best days of birding I’ve had in a long, long time.

If you have a chance, please take a look at the large version.