Zackiedawg
Well-known member
Well the good news is: migration and wintering bird season kicked into high gear yesterday here in South Florida. The wetlands forest areas were saturated with birds by the hundreds, with dozens of species all mixed together...it was a surprisingly good day that started with 80% chance of rain, but ended up clear, dry, and sunny - and then discovering how near-fallout conditions had appeared which none of us expected!
Known and identified species yesterday in about 3 hours of shooting were red-eyed vireo, white eyed vireo, prairie warbler, palm warbler, black and white warbler, black-throated blue warbler, yellow-throated warbler, common yellowthroat, magnolia warbler, summer tanager, ovenbird, swainson's warbler, great crested flycatcher...you never had to leave one 50-foot stretch of forest trail to see all of these.
Unfortunately, there are always a few I can't quite identify - either I didn't get a great shot or look, or it was some kind of juvenile, or just some species look too darn similar at times! So I ended up with a few here I was hoping to get some ID's on. Some are good clear shots, others fleeting out-of-focus ones in the distance...but hopefully with enough detail or pattern to identify. All were shot around Green Cay wetlands in Delray Beach on the southeast coast of Florida, yesterday, Saturday 9/30/17.
1. Very high up, not a great shot:
https://g2.img-dpreview.com/CD9E837AEB6444689E102972AFF6ED64.jpg
2. Looked like a juvenile...I was thinking prairie or magnolia?:
https://g2.img-dpreview.com/CCA1FDF753E54000B631D29950EA94C4.jpg
3. Possibly the same bird as #2 - slightly better look:
https://g3.img-dpreview.com/426D4585243B43CC9B6A9EA1A529DD35.jpg
4. Another juvenile? - he didn't quite look as busily patterned as the other:
https://g1.img-dpreview.com/0E0D4F2BFDCB495D9C366CEDD8BAF6FA.jpg
5. This one I got a good shot of, but couldn't figure out what it was - I think it looks like some kind of flycatcher...but it's not a great crested, nor LaSagra's, which are the only two I've ever photographed. It wasn't right for eastern phoebe, and didn't look right for eastern wood peewee. Maybe least or acadian flycatcher?:
https://g4.img-dpreview.com/870F53F18BF34340996F70FA31CD6CA9.jpg
https://g3.img-dpreview.com/3C72994416574B45A9C07CD933732350.jpg
Known and identified species yesterday in about 3 hours of shooting were red-eyed vireo, white eyed vireo, prairie warbler, palm warbler, black and white warbler, black-throated blue warbler, yellow-throated warbler, common yellowthroat, magnolia warbler, summer tanager, ovenbird, swainson's warbler, great crested flycatcher...you never had to leave one 50-foot stretch of forest trail to see all of these.
Unfortunately, there are always a few I can't quite identify - either I didn't get a great shot or look, or it was some kind of juvenile, or just some species look too darn similar at times! So I ended up with a few here I was hoping to get some ID's on. Some are good clear shots, others fleeting out-of-focus ones in the distance...but hopefully with enough detail or pattern to identify. All were shot around Green Cay wetlands in Delray Beach on the southeast coast of Florida, yesterday, Saturday 9/30/17.
1. Very high up, not a great shot:
https://g2.img-dpreview.com/CD9E837AEB6444689E102972AFF6ED64.jpg
2. Looked like a juvenile...I was thinking prairie or magnolia?:
https://g2.img-dpreview.com/CCA1FDF753E54000B631D29950EA94C4.jpg
3. Possibly the same bird as #2 - slightly better look:
https://g3.img-dpreview.com/426D4585243B43CC9B6A9EA1A529DD35.jpg
4. Another juvenile? - he didn't quite look as busily patterned as the other:
https://g1.img-dpreview.com/0E0D4F2BFDCB495D9C366CEDD8BAF6FA.jpg
5. This one I got a good shot of, but couldn't figure out what it was - I think it looks like some kind of flycatcher...but it's not a great crested, nor LaSagra's, which are the only two I've ever photographed. It wasn't right for eastern phoebe, and didn't look right for eastern wood peewee. Maybe least or acadian flycatcher?:
https://g4.img-dpreview.com/870F53F18BF34340996F70FA31CD6CA9.jpg
https://g3.img-dpreview.com/3C72994416574B45A9C07CD933732350.jpg