Immature MacGillivray’s Warbler Photos

Immature MacGillivray’s Warbler perched in a serviceberry – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/1000, ISO 500, -0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light

I had a birdy kind of morning yesterday in the high country of the Wasatch Mountains. The locations that were birdy two weeks ago aren’t nearly as birdy now as they were but locations that weren’t very birdy at all have become more birdy and I plan on focusing on those areas more in the next few weeks. I promise I won’t write birdy again… this morning.

The fruits of the serviceberries even at the higher elevations of this canyon have begun to ripen and I saw several species of birds in them. Some birds were eating the juicy berries and some were gleaning insects from the leaves and branches of the shrubs.

One of the birds I had in my viewfinder for a few moments yesterday morning was an immature MacGillivray’s Warbler where it perched on the branches of a serviceberry at the edge of a dusty, gravel road.

Immature MacGillivray’s Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/800, ISO 500, -0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light

I’m going to try to get to this location earlier in the morning when the light is softer than it was at a few minutes after 9 am yesterday. The sun was already getting high and that meant more shadows than I would have liked in these photos.

Immature MacGillivray’s Warbler and ripe serviceberries – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/800, ISO 500, -0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light

Yesterday I wondered if this young MacGillivray’s Warbler might not have been from the nest I knew about and where I photographed adults building their nest and bringing food to their chicks earlier this year but after thinking about it last evening I realized that although it is possible that this bird hatched from that nest it is more likely that it didn’t.

I recall that there were more than two adults in the area of that nest early in the spring and that there are likely many more MacGillivray’s Warblers in the area.

Me? I was just happy to have this young warbler in my viewfinder.

Life is good. Stay safe.

Mia

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