Hooded Warbler, Setophaga citrina
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![]() The strikingly patterned male warblers shown above and below were establishing their territories and singing when I visited Shawnee State Forest in southeastern Ohio in April 2015. | |
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![]() Hooded Warblers are rare winter visitors to Central California, but it so happens one had visited Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz in January of that same year, and I had been able to get this, my first photograph of the species. The pictures show that there is little difference between breeding and non-breeding plumage in this species -- they are always spectacular. |