June 14
Good Morning
First the geese and ducks, then the shorebirds and finally the warblers. Spring migration seem to be size related withth largest birds coming first.
The past two weeks Connor and and I have been north of Edmonton looking for warblers. The males of the species arrive in the nesting territory slightly ahead of the females. They stake their claims and begin signing to advertise their location. Once they have a mate, the quiet down and are very hard to find. So the first two weeks of June is the best time to find them on site. They are constantly in motion and a friend of mine compares photographing them as trying to get a shot of a frog in a blender.
Here is a selection of the warblers we saw this spring, some as they migrated through and some in the boreal forest where they will breed. We have seen 21 species so far this year but have been focusing on certain ones so I only have 14 species photographed.
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