Audubon

A banded Audubon's Warbler at the Richardson's Bay Audubon Center.

MN

In MN for a few days, then off to MA for a couple weeks and then up to Duluth for more birds!



Very young Warbling Vireo


Accidental photo on my worst day of the summer, Storrie 12


Western Tanager laaaauuuunches



Audubon's Warbler

Audubon's Warbler

Some more

Audubon's yellow rumped warbler

From my dad

Harbor seal that kept sneaking up on us when our backs were turned

From my dad

YRWA's

Nine birds today, eight species. The coolest thing was getting the two subspecies of the yellow rumped warbler, the audubon's and the myrtle. Up til now I'd only seen the myrtle, but the yellow chin of the audubon's is a pretty defining feature:


They also have more white on more tail feathers:


We couldn't age this one...


This is the myrtle, which we called a second year female due to the very small black centers of the back and upper tail feathers, as well as a very minimal amount of white on the rectrices


Michael, checking for molt/fat on a varied thrush