Bird of the Week – Yellow-rumped Warbler
By far the most common warbler in the boreal forest, the Yellow-rumped Warbler, the “Butter-Butt,” prefers the canopy, the tops of trees. As a result, it’s probably the most common cause of “birder’s neck,” neck strain from looking straight overhead.
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Spring Migration, Delta Barley Project
The species winters in the southern United States and Central America. The Yellow-rumped Warbler has two different forms: the Audubon’s and the Myrtle. They were once thought be be separate species, but were “lumped” into a single species a little while back. Alaska sees the Myrtle Warbler form.
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Had a dusting of snow Friday night/Saturday morning but Spring has officially arrived in iowa. Robins and blackbirds are everywhere. Gonna be in the 70s this week starting tomorrow. Cheep-cheep.
tomato plants in the ground, plums already showing on the tree, pear tree has blossoms and having to water the yard already ( frigging drought!) School starts up again on Monday, 3 more sessions and I’m done !! mikey- did ya see the scorched truck ???? 🙂
What is this “70s” of which you speak?
I think he’s talking about platform shoes, bell bottoms and Disco music… It’s Iowa !
Ah, Iowa. Where disco never died. Hey, I wonder if mikey knows the Fonz?
Glad to know you two are still among the living,barely. Got celery started in house and a whole slug of spuds itching to get planted.
As for Fonzie,I offered to race him and he said he had his menstrual cycle,so I said I’d make it fair and ride a Honda. I won.
Hmmph! I won a disco dance contest once. For reals.
Was so weird. Never danced that silliness before or since but won the bet thrown my way all those years ago.
woulda been funner to race the Fonz 🙂
Alrighty then.
When do I get my best-conversation-killer–of -all -time award AKM? 🙂
I’ve done in a champion’s number o threads recently !!!
🙂 🙂 🙂
I suspected you had seasonal rythym firmly ensconced,but disco is a whole other situation of mindless,automated noises and falsetto,Australian sounds.
No yellow butt here
Where did it go?
Inquiring mind from
iowa wants to know.
I could google it
I should I should
If I get conversation flowing
It does all of us good.
Speak to me,talk to
or cuss me by gosh
and if you choose not to
the whole weekends a wash. 🙂
The weekend is a wash. Thanks.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-rumped_Warbler/sounds
🙂
I always love your bird photos, WC, and look forward to them. I just found out the newest visitor to my windowsill is a mockingbird; an American robin has been visiting for just over a year. The starlings, finches, and doves have been our friends for much longer.
Starlings,my friend,are not anybody’s friends. They eat fruits and grains and make tremendous messes where ever they are allowed to collect and breed. They are wingnut’s gift of blight to ordinary humans.English or House Sparrows are the same. They commandeer robin and swallow nests and add their own to these other bird’s nests. Not good manners at all. 🙂