{"id":7873,"date":"2018-09-12T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T19:14:32","slug":"wilsons-warbler-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/2018\/09\/12\/wilsons-warbler-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson\u2019s Warbler"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 11 2018 Hendrie Valley, RBG, Burlington, ON<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Yesterday was truly dismal; we were rained on all day as the remnants of a tropical hurricane\u00a0dragged across the north-east. Today dawned well-washed and overcast. I had no predictions as to what a day of rain might mean for birds.<\/p>\n

There were transects to be done\u00a0and I\u00a0met up with two companions to well, count birds. It took a while for things to get going, perhaps the day needed to warm up, but in time we were finding new species at almost every turn. It started with a Chestnut-sided Warbler<\/strong>, then Magnolia<\/strong> Warblers<\/strong>, a Ruby<\/strong>–throated<\/strong> Hummingbird<\/strong>, American<\/strong> Redstarts<\/strong>, a breathtaking Black<\/strong>–throated<\/strong> Green<\/strong> Warbler<\/strong>, a puzzling-at-first Orange<\/strong>–crowned<\/strong> Warbler<\/strong> and finally (for this little corner) a Black<\/strong> and<\/strong> White<\/strong> Warbler<\/strong>. But we couldn’t stop there, we had to keep moving, there was\u00a0much more ground to cover.<\/p>\n

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Male Northern Flicker in Virginia Creepers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were many highlights to follow: Northern<\/strong> Flickers<\/strong> and Swainson\u2019s<\/strong> Thrushes<\/strong> feasting on the fruits of Virginia<\/strong> Creepers<\/strong>, Warbling<\/strong>, Red<\/strong>–eyed<\/strong> and Philadelphia<\/strong> Vireos<\/strong>, Great<\/strong>–crested<\/strong> and Least<\/strong> Flycatchers<\/strong>; Any one of these could have been my Bird of the Day. It was all about as good as it gets, and then up popped a Wilson\u2019s<\/strong> Warbler<\/strong>, just long enough to make us gasp.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that Wilson\u2019s Warblers are particularly rare, but we sure don\u2019t see many, they pay us brief visits on their way to and from Ontario\u2019s far north and their Mexico wintering home. The Orange-crowned Warblers are probably less common, certainly easy to overlook. But what Wilson\u2019s have that Orange-crowned don\u2019t is visual impact; a shallow measure I\u2019ll admit but it stopped us dead in out tracks. The Wilson’s Warbler was My Bird of the Day despite some very serious competition.<\/p>\n

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Wilson’s Warbler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had tallied fifty species for the day when I realized that we had been on the trail for over three hours and I was just three minutes and an alarming eight-kilometers way from an eleven-o-clock meeting. Gotta run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 11 2018 Hendrie Valley, RBG, Burlington, ON.\u00a0Yesterday was truly dismal; we were rained on all day as the remnants of a tropical hurricane\u00a0dragged across the north-east. Today dawned well-washed and overcast. I had no predictions as to what a day of rain might mean for birds. There were transects to be done\u00a0and I\u00a0met up … Continue reading Wilson\u2019s Warbler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}