Warbler Weekends
Greensboro, Vermont
May 27-29 and June 3-5, 2011

By late May, with the spring migration over, songbird diversity and abundance has diminished, the leaves have hidden the great display. Most birders have retreated from the woods and wetlands. But the big message from Warbler Weekend is simple: Don't give up!

Now is when we get some of the best possible views of warblers and other striking songbirds. Males, singing on their territories, will sit up and "expose" themselves. And if a songbird "tees-up," Bryan will put a scope on it. Among the many birds we routinely watch in spotting scopes are Winter Wren, Blue-headed Vireo, Blackburnian Warbler (a Warbler Weekend specialty), Canada Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Scarlet Tanager and Lincoln's Sparrow. Everyone gets a look.

You'll see evidence of this in the digi-scoped songbird photos to the right captured by Bryan or his clients during Warbler Weekends. From top to bottom, those are Winter Wren, Scarlet Tanager, Mourning Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, American Redstart and Lincoln's Sparrow.

You can get photos like these with help from my Photography Workshops.

Here's our combined trip list from the two Warbler Weekend outings this year:

DUCKS, GEESE and SWANS
Canada Goose
White-winged Scoter
Common Merganser
PARTRIDGES, GROUSE, TURKEY
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey
LOONS
Common Loon
NEW WORLD VULTURES
Turkey Vulture
KITES, HAWKS, EAGLES
Broad-winged Hawk
SANDPIPERS
Spotted Sandpiper
GULLS, TERNS
Ring-billed Gul
Caspian Ternl
PIGEONS and DOVES
Mourning Dove
OWLS
Barred Owl
HUMMINGBIRDS
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
WOODPECKERS
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
FLYCATCHERS
Alder Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
VIREOS
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
JAYS and CROWS
Blue Jay
American Crow
SWALLOWS
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
CHICKADEES and TITMICE
Black-capped Chickadee
NUTHATCHES
Red-breasted Nuthatch
CREEPERS
Brown Creeper
WRENS
Winter Wren
KINGLETS
Golden-crowned Kinglet
THRUSHES
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
STARLINGS and ALLIES
European Starling
WAXWINGS
Cedar Waxwing
WOOD-WARBLERS
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
NEW WORLD SPARROWS and ALLIES
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
CARDINALS and ALLIES
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
BLACKBIRDS and ALLIES
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
FINCHES and ALLIES
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch

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