Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla)
Happy Thanksgiving! Many Thanksgivings ago I was watching my bird feeders at my parent’s house in Connecticut while waiting for family to arrive and dinner to begin on a cool, rainy day. While looking out the window I spotted, naked eye, an oddly shaped and surprisingly brightly colored bird on a tree branch. I grabbed my binoculars very quickly and had a good look at a warbler inspecting the feeding area and all of the bird commotion below it. It had a yellow body, dark green on the back and wings, a gray hood and very bright white eye rings. It was a Nashville Warbler! Their...
Read MoreThrowback Thursday – Shorebirds of Texas plate
Here’s a Throwback Thursday to a “Shorebirds” plate from A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas by Roger Tory Peterson, 1960. You can find it currently hanging on the walls of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. If you are in the Jamestown, New York area on such a rainy day you should come visit us and see it for yourself!
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