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Blackpoll Warblers eating Gray Dogwood berries. We think of warblers as being insectivores, but in the fall they need to fuel up for migration and add berries and fruits to their diets as high energy food sources.
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Ruby-crowned Kinglets are usally are elusive as they forage for insects in dense vegetation. Last week a group of them were hunting in a patch of Gray Dogwood along the trail, hovering like hummingbirds and giving us close-up looks.
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Green Herons have very long necks
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The warblers are fattening up on insects for their long migration south. This Tennessee Warbler found a smorgasbord of tiny bugs hiding on the underside of a leaf.
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Juvenile Red-headed Woodpeckers have brown heads.
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The mixed flock of warblers suddenly disappeared, but apparently not before this Cooper's Hawk was able to secure a meal.
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This lone, young American White Pelican apparently has lost its flock. I hope it can find them—or they find it—for the long migration south.
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It bodes well for successful bird hike when your first bird is magnificent.
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Olive-sided Flycatcher, a lifer for me, going to town on a Black and Gold Bumblebee.
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#BirdoftheDay #Birding #BirdingPhotography #AngryBirds I tried to shoo away this scrub-jay from the bird feeders. He wasn't intimidated.