New to Me

[baturn]

I've never seen a Yellow Rumped Warbler before yesterday afternoon and had no idea they are native to this area. Pleasant surprise.


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[sm4him]

I love those little guys! Also called "Butter Butts" for obvious reasons.

You got some quite nice pics of them--they are often so flighty and they move ALL. THE. TIME. so it can be hard to get good close-ups of them sitting still, at least around here. I don't know, maybe up there they're too cold to move as much.

 

[Derrel]

Wow--what a gorgeous bird species!!! i am not sure that I have ever seen one of these birds.

 

[sm4him]

Wow--what a gorgeous bird species!!! i am not sure that I have ever seen one of these birds.

Yellow-rumpeds are one of those birds everyone has probably SEEN and very few people know it. They are almost everywhere in North America, at some point during the year. Derrel, they should be arriving in your area soon--Summer is the best time for them in the PNW area.

The thing is, they are small and they move around, a lot. They flit from tree to tree and the chances are, unless you are really out WATCHING for birds, you either won't see these at all, or you'll see them without ever realizing they are anything special.
They are not only beautiful, but can also be highly entertaining, as where you find one, you can generally find quite a few of them.

 

[DarkShadow]

Nice Capture! very pretty bird and would like to have captured that species for my ever grown bird collections.

 

[CourtSC]

Great shot...these guys are fast movers!!!!

 

[baturn]

I love those little guys! Also called "Butter Butts" for obvious reasons.

You got some quite nice pics of them--they are often so flighty and they move ALL. THE. TIME. so it can be hard to get good close-ups of them sitting still, at least around here. I don't know, maybe up there they're too cold to move as much.

Well to me they will now always be "butter butts" and it was actually quite warm and partial sun yesterday so he was flitting about. I just got really lucky.

 

[pjaye]

Beautiful. I don't remember ever seeing one either.

 

[baturn]

Thanks for looking, all.

 

[tirediron]

Huh... never seen those in my yard! You mid-Islanders get all the breaks!

 

[nzmacro]

Gorgeous colours and details. I just love small birds and these are beautiful little ones, no doubt about that at all.

All the best and well taken.

Danny.

 

[bc_steve]

I've seen those up in Williams Lake before, and I got some terrible pictures of them. They move around like crazy, so nice work!