Well Florida is having a very nice migration and winter bird wave the past few weeks, as many birds are stopping in to feed before their final push to South America and the Caribbean...while others are starting to arrive in Florida as their final winter destination. Despite still being stupid-hot and humid, the birds usually start coming down in September each year and this year has been pretty good, even with the slight delay in migrants due to Hurricane Irma.
The following birds are all migrants or winter birds over the past few weekends, shot with the A6300 and FE100-400mm lens, both with and without 1.4x TC, around Green Cay Wetlands in Delray Beach, FL...to give an idea of the diversity, most of these were shot in the same 200-foot stretch of trees and over the course of just a few hours each Saturday:
Great-crested flycatcher:
Prairie warbler:
Ovenbird:
Common yellowthroat:
Yellow-throated warbler:
Black-throated blue warbler:
Black and white warbler:
Acadian flycatcher:
American redstart (juvenile):
Red-eyed vireo:
White-eyed vireo (this guy was missing his tailfeathers, but doing OK):
Blue-grey gnatcatcher:
Northern parula:
Not the greatest shot, but I've only seen this bird twice in 9 years and they're exceedingly hard to find out in the open - this is the worm-eating warbler:
And this would be called a terrible shot - but this was a bird I've only spotted ONCE before, and is a very rare sighting for this area - this is the blackburnian warbler:
Cape May warbler:
There were even more that I didn't get a photo of - magnolia warblers, blue-headed vireos, northern waterthrushes, summer tanagers...it's been chock-full lately!
The following birds are all migrants or winter birds over the past few weekends, shot with the A6300 and FE100-400mm lens, both with and without 1.4x TC, around Green Cay Wetlands in Delray Beach, FL...to give an idea of the diversity, most of these were shot in the same 200-foot stretch of trees and over the course of just a few hours each Saturday:
Great-crested flycatcher:
Prairie warbler:
Ovenbird:
Common yellowthroat:
Yellow-throated warbler:
Black-throated blue warbler:
Black and white warbler:
Acadian flycatcher:
American redstart (juvenile):
Red-eyed vireo:
White-eyed vireo (this guy was missing his tailfeathers, but doing OK):
Blue-grey gnatcatcher:
Northern parula:
Not the greatest shot, but I've only seen this bird twice in 9 years and they're exceedingly hard to find out in the open - this is the worm-eating warbler:
And this would be called a terrible shot - but this was a bird I've only spotted ONCE before, and is a very rare sighting for this area - this is the blackburnian warbler:
Cape May warbler:
There were even more that I didn't get a photo of - magnolia warblers, blue-headed vireos, northern waterthrushes, summer tanagers...it's been chock-full lately!
