These are some of the photos that I took while Joyce and I were on Dauphin Island. We arrived in the midst of a fallout. Prothonotary, Hooded and Blue-winged Warblers were everywhere. Also thick were Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, Indigo Buntings and Blue Grosbeaks. For the first three days we could see easily 15 of each of the above species each day. I never thought I would say "Oh just another Hooded or Prothonotary". I had a female Prothonotary female working 10 feet in front of me and not paying any attention to us. Also had other birds that were so tired that they would set and ignore everything around them. There were some Bottle Brush bushes at the cemetary that were loaded with birds. The birds were getting nectar and probably insects attracted to the flowers.
These were from Meridan Mississippi on our way down.
Blue Grosbeak |
Blue Grosbeak |
Blue Grosbeak |
Barn Swallow |
Black and White Warbler |
Blackpoll Warbler |
Blue-winged Teal |
Blue-winged Warbler |
Blue-winged Warbler |
Blue-winged Warbler |
Cape May Warbler |
Cape May Warbler |
Carolina Wren |
Carolina Wren |
Chuck Will's Widow |
Common Nighthawk |
Common Yellowthroat |
Mottled Duck |
Eastern Bluebird |
Eastern Bluebird |
Female Eastern Towhee (Rufous-sided Towhee) |
Gray Catbird |
Great Crested Flycatcher |
Hooded Warbler |
Hooded Warbler |
Kentucky Warbler |
Laughing Gull |
Northern Parula |
Northern Parula |
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
The yellow on the face is from pollen in the flowers.
Orchard Oriole |
Orchard Oriole |
Orchard Oriole |
Painted Bunting |
Painted Bunting |
Painted Bunting |
Painted Bunting |
Palm Warbler |
Prairie Warbler |
Prairie Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Red-eyed Vireo |
Redbellied Woodpecker |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Scarlet Tanager |
Scarlet Tanager |
Sunner Tanager |
Summer Tanager |
Summer Tanager |
Tennessee Warbler |
Tennessee Warbler |
Cattle Egret |
Veery |
White-eyed Vireo |
Worneating Warbler |
Yellow-throated Vireo |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo |