American Redstart
August 13th, 2010
American Redstarts are common at Mud Lake and other places, but the striking black-and-orange adult male is hard to photograph: he tends to perch high up while he sings; if you happen to catch him low, he'll probably flush before you can get a picture, or just stay extremely well-hidden behind multiple layers of foliage. All my best redstart photos have been taken at around this time of year, when bushes, low branches and undergrowth teem with fledglings. They don't seem to have learned to be skittish yet.
It looked almost luminous when the "flash patch" on his tail caught the sun.
August 13th, 2010
American Redstarts are common at Mud Lake and other places, but the striking black-and-orange adult male is hard to photograph: he tends to perch high up while he sings; if you happen to catch him low, he'll probably flush before you can get a picture, or just stay extremely well-hidden behind multiple layers of foliage. All my best redstart photos have been taken at around this time of year, when bushes, low branches and undergrowth teem with fledglings. They don't seem to have learned to be skittish yet.
It looked almost luminous when the "flash patch" on his tail caught the sun.
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