Here in Minnesota we are right in the heart of songbird migration.
Baltimore orioles showed up right on time and found the grape jelly.
A day later, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak appeared on the sunflower feeder.
And rounding out the Fun Trio are the hummingbirds with their buzzy welcomes and aerobatic displays.
All sorts of new species are showing up every day.
One of the earliest warblers to arrive, the Black-and-white has a distinctive foraging style of traveling up and down tree trunks and branches.
Yellow-rumped Warblers like to catch insects on the wing fluttering much like a flycatcher.
The Chestnut-sided Warbler is named for a brown streak on its sides.
A pair of Northern Yellow Warblers picking up insects in an Elm tree.
Rather nondescript, the Tennessee Warbler is very common and has one of the loudest warbler songs.
And then there is the excitement of seeing one of the striking warblers. The only North American warbler with an orange throat is the male Blackburnian. This beautiful bird nests in wooded habitats in North America and winters in South America in open forests including shaded coffee plantations.
Many of these birds I see and photograph are feeding in Elm trees which I wrote about in this post:
Beautiful!