Gillian
May 13th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
What a beautiful capture! I don't have a photo of one in breeding plumage that I like. I'm glad to hear they're back at the airport...I was hoping to go there this weekend but with the forecast I think I'll try next weekend instead.

Suzanne
May 13th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
The lighting really worked with this guy...I wish I were more of a morning person, because it seems like every time I get a photo like this, it was taken about an hour after sunrise.

Don't know for sure that this guy was a breeder. He was singing some, but he was also in company with a bunch of Yellow-Rumped Warblers. South-of-the-airport is beautiful right now though, in so many ways--people think "south of airport = sparrows" but there's so much more to it than that. Orioles everywhere, rose-breasted grosbeaks, meadowlarks and bobolinks singing away. Saw a pair of thrashers on the wire fence both carrying nesting material, and then one dove into the grass around a fencepost, as if they were nesting right there!