The Cape May warbler breeds in the boreal forests of Canada in the summer, and then winters in the Caribbean where its often found in palm trees. This migrating male perched on a branch above my head at Presque Isle State Park one May afternoon. There is just something a little bit tropical going on here that appealed to me.
A male Prothonotary Warbler posed out in the open on multiple occasions on one of my visits to Magee Marsh in Ohio but I kept missing him. This time, I got him.
Captured in Sewickley Park near Pittsburgh PA. This is the first one of these that I've seen in nearly ten years of photographing birds around here. They must show up only when I'm blinking...