Continuing with photos of birds I photographed in Texas, here are two photos of one or more Black and White warblers.  These warblers are fairly common spring visitors and this year I believe all I saw were males.

This is a male Yellow warbler…

A beautiful male Chestnut-sided warbler…

A bird we always look forward to seeing is the Indigo bunting, a ‘cousin’ to the Painted bunting I featured in my first Texas post. (In my original post I mistakenly identified this as a Lazuli bunting.)  

An Ash-throated flycatcher has occupied a nest box on the property for all of the springs I have visited…except for this year!

This is probably a female Back-chinned hummingbird, but since there was also a male Ruby-throated hummingbird in the area I can’t be sure because the females of the two species are so similar.  The Black-chinned hummingbird is by far the most numerous visitor to the Central Texas area.

I counted as many as four male Brown-headed cowbirds around the property at one time.  The cowbirds are partially responsible for endangering two Central Texas  threatened species of birds, the Golden-cheeked warbler and the Black-capped vireo.  Cowbirds don’t build their own nests but lay eggs in the nests of other species.  The young cowbirds grow quickly and are aggressive, pushing the other nesting birds out of nests so that they don’t survive.

My final photo is of a male adult Ladder-backed woodpecker feeding a juvenile male.