Pine Warbler, Little Maquoketa Valley, eastern Iowa
”Nature Clicks #600” had to be a special one and mother nature didn’t disappoint this time again. I’m very happy to present today my first sighting of a Pine Warbler. It was shot through the dirty glass at my office window. Suet sprinkles from the nearby feeder haven’t been removed yet and the time I spent in post process to clean this photo reminded me that spring cleaning should start sometime… 🙄
I saw the bird already briefly a day before (April 18th), hoping it would come back again, and had the camera on my desk with just the 24-70 lens attached the next day. I shot this at 70 mm in horizontal orientation due to the position of the log on top of the bird feeder but cropped the photo vertical at the end.
Pine Warblers spend the winter in the southern states and as the name suggests they prefer pine forests, which we don’t really have here in eastern Iowa.