I tallied four different warbler species on Wednesday (9/3/2014), and all were in our yard!

The first warbler to visit was a Yellow-rumped Audubon warbler and I saw it sometime around noon when I first occupied my usual position in the yard.  Unfortunately I didn’t have good light at any of the areas that the warbler visited, but I made the most of the situation.

My next visitor was a Black-throated Gray warbler, a warbler that wasn’t even on my radar until about a month ago.  For awhile I had visits from one almost every day, but it’s been about three weeks since I saw my last one.  This one showed up late in the afternoon, after I had lost most of the light.

Again, late in the afternoon I had a visit from an Orange-crowned warbler.  This has been the most common warbler visitor over the past month or so and I’ve had at least one visit every day with at least one occasion with two in the watercourse at the same time.  I’ve got better photos, but I wanted to include photos I took on this date and some of the bird’s poses were cute.

Finally, just about the time I was ready to call it a day, I got a quick glimpse of a warbler flitting behind the leaves of one of the madrona trees.  I knew immediately it was a Townsend’s warbler, and after a little hide and seek it emerged on a limb in full sun!  What a spectacular sight!  This was my first positive sighting this year… in past years I’ve only had a single sighting and it’s always been in the fall.

I hung it up at 5:30pm with four different species of warblers observed, and photographed, in our yard!