may 2nd Central park

Today I went down to Central Park for some may warbler birding. Following reports from the past two days I had high expectations. They came through with 18 species of warbler. The highlights were lifer blackpoll and cerulean warbler. We also had 2 blackburnian and 10+ nashville warblers. Got some ok pictures, more document shots of cerulean blackpoll and nashville. I am hoping to go again soon and will be sure to post what I see

Heres list

Blackburnian

cerulean

y rumped

Black throated blue

" " green

parula

prarie

blue winged

worm eating

nashville

yellow

ovenbird

northern waterthrush

blackpoll

palm

common yellowthroat

redstart

b+white

Blackburnian sweeetnesss

Blackburnian warblers are such awesome birds. I saw and photographed my first one up in vermont during memorial day weekend. Their song its awesome too. It was in this huge stand of pines that made photography very hard. It was so dark and I had no flash. Luckily He hopped into sunlight a few times giving me some oppurtunities. Defenitely one of my new favorite warblers. Hope you like them too!

What warbler are you aiming for this spring

You dont understand how these past two months felt knowing warblers were on their way. I started birding two years ago and was mainly into raptors. Now i am starting to branch off into other birds. Therefore this will be my first big spring for warblers. I have all the spots ready to be checked out. Im getting my calls down. The biggest problem for me is telling the diffference between the magnolia and the hooded warbler haha what a bird nerd!! Well Magnolia has to be my favorite warbler. I have never seen one but i really want to. My bud James Vellozzi went to Main last year and got amazing shots of magnolia and blackburnian warblers. He also got some awesome shots of cerulean here in NY. These are three species i have never seen but i am hoping to see this spring.

Here are pictures James vellozzi took of these species. He is still updating his new website but sent me these shots through email last year. His website jamesvellozzinaturephotography.com If anyone is wondering hes the one that took the header shot. I missed that day :(