And the floodgates open
May 9th, 2014

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Costa Rica photo albums to announce that warblers have arrived in Ottawa. Oh. my. god. have they arrived.


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This Black-Throated Green Warbler was practically begging to be photographed. As the guy next to me said, "he certainly seems to think he's important!" These beauties actually nest in our area (Stony Swamp, South March Highlands, Gatineau), but it's hard to see them on their breeding grounds. They tend to stay high up in the trees.


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Black-and-White Warbler

Remember this one? I like to fondly imagine that it's the very same Black-and-White Warbler I saw splashing in a creek two months ago in a Costa Rica rainforest.


Blackburnian Warbler

My favorite bird in all North America, photographed for the first time. (Not photographed terribly well, I'm afraid, but it's a start!)

This is what the cars look like at Mud Lake, on a weekday morning, when the spring warblers finally get here:

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