Yellow Warblers in the Wascana Habitat Conservation Area

The Wings over Wascana nature festival was held in Regina, SK, this weekend, and as I walked around the Habitat Conservation Area. I was surprised by how many Yellow Warblers were enjoying the marsh.

Male Yellow Warbler, singing beside Wascana Lake,
in the Habitat Conservation Area.  © SB

I'm getting to know the Yellow Warblers' sweet, chipping calls after hearing them in other parts of Wascana Park — and I love seeing their flashes of gold in the trees. (We even had one late evening in our backyard a couple of weeks ago.) And in the marsh, I was lucky to be able to watch a female Yellow Warbler build her nest!

Volunteers were banding birds, so it was very cool to later see a Yellow Warbler with a band on his leg. (You can see the band on the bird's right leg, close to the foot, visible just behind the branch...)

A banded male Yellow Warbler, in Wascana Park, Regina, SK   ©SB

What are these? Yellow Warblers - Paruline jaune
Location: Wascana Habitat Conservation Area, Wascana Marsh/Park/Bird Sanctuary, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Photo date: May 28, 2016

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Yellow Warblers in my Regina backyard - my August surprise

Yellow Warbler. She popped up out of the lilac leaves
when I was photographing another bird with its young.
What a lovely surprise!  © SB 

I have mixed feelings about the warblers that have started visiting my backyard in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Yes, Yellow Warblers are particularly stunning!

Bright flashes of light through the tomato garden and lilac trees!

And yet...

Where were the Yellow Warblers all summer? Way up north?

I wonder, are they stopping in to visit now because they are migrating south?

Is there something these Yellow Warblers know that I'm trying to ignore? Something, perhaps, like the coming onset of fall, and what falls after that... Winter?

This Yellow Warbler was checking out the green tomatoes - great camouflage for her.  ©SB

What are these? Yellow Warblers. Female, from the lack of red breast streaks. And so beautiful! 

Location: Backyard, Regina, Saskatchewan. 

Photo dates: August 17 and 16, 2015.

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