It’s been awhile since I posted to my blog.  It’s not that I haven’t been busy… I’m logging at least a warbler a day.  Most of the warblers seem to be juveniles, which makes them more difficult to identify and especially to distinguish from females of the same species.  But the photography and the processing have kept me very busy, and as usual I’m running behind on the processing.

On August 19, 2018, I watched as a Turkey vulture flew from a neighbor’s yard to the top of a fir tree in our yard, the first time I’m aware that a vulture has actually perched in one of our trees.  A handsome devil that will soon be heading south!

Here are a couple of female Anna’s hummingbirds that are hanging around the yard.  We have at least two male Anna’s fighting for control of feeders and still have at least one female Rufous hummingbird still in the yard.

A male Bushtit perched above the watercourse.  The Bushtits almost never access the water in the watercourse.

Photos of a female Wilson’s warbler accessing the watercourse.

For contrast, here is a beautiful male Wilson’s warbler who visited the yard on August 29…

This is an Orange-crowned warbler, which has turned out to her our most frequent warbler species visitor this year (displacing Wilson’s warblers).

On August 26 I received a visit from our second Black-throated Gray warbler for the year.  I consider this one of the rarest warbler visitors to our yard.

I consider the Brown creeper one of our best camouflaged birds and you can see why in this first photo.  The second photo shows the bird accessing our stone bird bath.