Focusing On Yellow-rumped Warblers During Fall Migration

Fall Yellow-rumped Warbler in northern Utah

Yesterday afternoon I spent thirty-one minutes photographing migrating Yellow-rumped Warblers close to home and those warblers kept me on my toes. There were so many Yellow-rumped Warblers that it made it hard for me to decide which warbler to focus on while they were busy hawking insects from the bare branches of a dead tree.

I’ve been seeing Yellow-rumped Warblers in the Wasatch and Stansbury Mountains and down in the valley but not in great numbers until yesterday afternoon. I couldn’t count them because I was busy photographing the warblers but they seemed to be everywhere.

Click on the first image in the gallery above to start a slide show or to scroll through the larger images one by one.

Yellow-rumped Warblers migrate a little later than other warblers do here in northern Utah because they can switch their diet from the insects they consume during the breeding season to berries in the fall.

What I thought was unusual about the Yellow-rumped Warblers I photographed yesterday was that almost all of the warblers were facing towards the south in my photos except for the few that I photographed that were looking directly towards me. I don’t know why. I wish I did.

What I do know is that I had a great time time photographing these fall Yellow-rumped Warblers yesterday afternoon.

Life is good.

Mia

There were so many images this morning that I am not providing my techs for each photo individually but I was using my Nikon D500 with my 500mm VR lens and a 1.4x TC attached. My ISO was set to 500.  Shutter speeds varied between 1/800 to 1/1600.

Click here to see more of my Yellow-rumped Warbler photos plus facts and information about this species.