Birds

Fall Warblers – Not Always So Confusing

October 2, 2010 by Corey 4 Comments

This fall has been good to me in terms of getting good looks at migrant wood-warblers.  Whether I was watching birds at Alley Pond Park, Kissena Park, Central Park, along the coast, or in Bryant Park, the not-as-brightly-colored-as-they-are-in-spring-but-still-pretty-nice members of North America’s most sought after family of birds made seeking them out rather easy for me this autumn.  And while most of the blog-worthy images of wood-warblers from this migration have already been posted in one or another of the above-linked blog posts, there are plenty that have not yet been shared.  So, like I did at the end of this past spring with the shots I saved up from the Forest Park waterhole I would like to share the remaining wood-warbler shots from this season.  Enjoy!

Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica

Northern Parula Parula americana

Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor

“Western” Palm Warbler Dendroica palmarum palmarum

Blackburnian Warbler Dendroica fusca

Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia

Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia

Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor

Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica

Tennessee Warbler Virmivora peregrina

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Written by Corey
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.