Birds of Central Texas – 4

These photos were all taken on May 7, 2015 and are of warblers in migration through Central Texas.

First up, the Black-throated Green warbler, easily the most numerous of the migrating warblers during the several days I was observing.  (The previous year, at a slightly earlier time period, the most numerous warbler was the Nashville warbler.)  And I almost hate to mention this, but in researching these photos it’s somewhat disconcerting how similar some sex/phases of the Black-throated Green warbler look to the non-male Blackburnian warbler.

Warbler, Black-throated Green 20150507-85 Warbler, Black-throated Green 20150507-70 Warbler, Black-throated Green 20150507-53 Warbler, Black-throated Green 20150507-51 Warbler, Black-throated Green 20150507-48 Warbler, Black-throated Green 20150507-45

Here we have a male American redstart, the first I had observed on my prior forays to the area, although the pervious year we did observe a female redstart displaying considerably more than these males.

Redstart, American 20150507-15 Redstart, American 20150507-05 Redstart, American 20150507-04

And finally, another photo of a male Blackburnian warbler

Warbler, Blackburnian 20150507-03