Category Archives: Warblers

Spring (finally) springing

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Butterfly Psyche

I admit I’ve been waiting for something good to post…the year’s first lady beetle or first warbler or first life-list bird. By this time last year, I had all of those! Heck, I had a clutch of lady beetle eggs … Continue reading →

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Confusing Fall Warbler time!

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Butterfly Psyche

[I]f you associate a bird only with its adult breeding plumage…you won’t be able to tell that the dull olive-green bird chirping repetitively in September is the same as the bright golden-yellow one singing exuberantly in April. Continue reading →

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Life List Bird #194: Bicknell’s Thrush

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Butterfly Psyche

I spent a wonderful afternoon sitting in a willow tree in Philly’s Roosevelt Park (incongruously right across the street from all the sports stadiums, but a great birdwatching location nonetheless). I had my binoculars and one hand and cell phone … Continue reading →

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The important things

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Butterfly Psyche

I managed to miss two buses due to nature sightings – one while I was collected a lady beetle larva, the other when I was trying to ID a warbler’s butt high above me in a tree. I didn’t get … Continue reading →

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Birds and bugs, oh my!

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Butterfly Psyche

I had a GREAT bird and bug commute. Since I left the house an hour early, I spent an hour strolling in Old City, where a single tree had 7, count ‘em, 7 species of warbler, including the very rare … Continue reading →

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