Recently I encountered a new bird, for me anyway, the Common Yellowthroat, a small warbler with a Lone Ranger black mask, a white head top, and a very yellow throat.
Male Common Yellowthroat.
Male Common Yellowthroat singing.
This House Sparrow was preening itself one morning, and looked down curiously at a photographer.
House Sparrow.
Meanwhile, a female Mallard took off from Colonial Lake.
Female Mallard.
Snowy Egret stabbing water after a fish.
A Common Grackle laughed at the scene.
Common Grackle: “You missed!”
Have a great weekend!
neihtn 
Beautiful birds, all of them!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Helen!
LikeLike
Lovely, lovely bird captures!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Amy!
LikeLike
Oh I love the pic where the House Sparrow looked straight to the camera!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Glad you like it. Thanks!
LikeLike
I am so impressed that you can catch these birds singing!
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s actually not difficult. Birds like to sing or call one another. You just have to be patient and wait for them to do that, and then press the camera shutter.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s true, there’s usually a call and response going on. I will listen out!
LikeLike
Beautiful captures. You caught them very well. My favorite is the house sparrow. Its expression was priceless..
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you! Sparrows live near humans, and perhaps they have learned to imitate some of our expressions.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great captures, Hien. The yellowthroats are usually hidden in the brush, so you’re lucky to have found it out in the open. They are a lovely bird with the ‘whichety-whichety-whichety’ song. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Eliza! I was surprised to see the Yellowthroat and had to look it up once I got home to be sure.
LikeLike
You just get better and better! I love the bizarre House sparrow pose. The splashing egret and the screaming grackle are also full of life. And it’s nice to see the little Yellowthroat, I used to love seeing those. I think I’ve only seen them once or twice out here….I just don’t see warblers as often as I used to, maybe I’m not going to the right places. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Lynn! Perhaps warblers are small birds and harder to see than the other ones.
LikeLike
That’s certainly true, but it seems there were more back east, or maybe I knew where to find them every Spring. I see a few here every year, but not in the numbers that I used to see in NY/NJ. Speaking of little birds, we do have the charming Bushtit here, a really tiny gray bird, almost like a miniature catbird but lighter, that builds an intricate hanging nest, a little like an oriole but smaller. So there are always trade-offs.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Trade-offs always! We should live on both coasts.
LikeLiked by 1 person
the photos of the sparrow and the egret are fantastic!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Sukanya!
LikeLike
Great photos. It’s wonderful you can site and identify all these birds. I especially love the water reflection photos.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Katelon! I am still very much a neophyte at identifying birds and turtles. Still a lot to learn.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well..my descriptions are mostly….pretty bird, black bird, brown bird…so you’re way ahead of me 🙂
LikeLike
A nice cast of characters for this little story. The Yellowthroat is very pretty.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Right after I photographed it, that Yellowthroat was chased away by a much larger Barn Swallow.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Congratulations on the common yellowthroat, that’s a species more often heard than seen.
I liked the curious sparrow, birds can strike some humorous poses at times.
I loved the action images of the mallard and egret, I wish snowy egrets were seen around my area more often.
Nice captioning on the grackle, it put a smile on my face this morning, a good way to start the day.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much Jerry!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Stunning! I love the curious sparrow
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you! That sparrow jumped on several branches before I took that shot.
LikeLiked by 2 people
What a beauty. I love their essence when they are singing. I think it shows in photos too.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you for a great comment!
LikeLiked by 1 person