#blackpoll warbler

[mushbeast]

sketchbook spread of a blackpoll warbler and a little blue heron. both created with holbein acryla gouache

[occasionallybirds]

More mug shots from bird banding, warbler edition

American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)

Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum)

October 1, 2025

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[podartists]

Setophaga fusca | Setophaga magnolia | Setophaga striata | Setophaga castanea | Setophaga pensylvanica | Setophaga virens

Plate XII | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[kiefferlmeridew]

Blackpoll Warbler

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Blackpoll Warbler Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[burkh4rt]

[dabiconcordia]

Longing Think of the blackpoll warbler. She tips the scales at one ounce before she migrates, taking off from the seacoast to our east flying higher and higher ascending two or three miles during her eighty hours of flight until she lands, in Tobago, north of Venezuela three days older, and weighing half as much. She flies over open ocean almost the whole way. Oh she is not so different from us. The arc of our lives is a mystery too. We do not understand, we cannot see what guides us on our way: that longing that pulls us toward light. Not knowing, we fly onward hearing the dull roar of the waves below. by Julie Cadwallader Staub

[jencsi]

Todays birds- Nashville Warblers, Carolina Wren, Yellow Rumped Warblers and Blackpoll or Bay Breasted Warbler (seen but not pictured- song sparrow, white throated sparrow, goldfinch, kingfisher, nuthatch)