Chasing Yellow
For the second day in a row, I received an e-Bird rare bird alert for a Cape May Warbler seen at the Everglades NP Gulf Coast Visitor Center, just two miles from me. A bird I’ve not captured, I decided to go see if I could find it. Heck, maybe someone else was there and could make it easy and show me!
The Cape May Warbler has a mossy green back, tiger-striped breast, chestnut cheek patch, and yellow underparts.
Well….no one else was there looking for it. And none of the Park Rangers set up in the outside tent for services were aware of it. (They are now, lol.)
So I watched the trees and walked the small nature trail, looking for a flash of yellow.
No luck with the Cape May Warbler. But that plan of mine to look for a flash of yellow paid off with two other yellow birds!
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Prairie Warbler
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Great Crested Flycatcher
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The Great Crested Flycatcher was flying back and forth from the tree to the ground, catching insects. I lucked out with one “on the ground” shot.
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Great Crested Flycatcher
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It was still a lucky, chasing yellow morning!
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Photos by Donna 
Thanks for catching two different yellows, I enjoyed seeing both! 😀
Thank you, Liz! Yellow is such a happy color!!
Them fast moving, tiny birds are way too much challenge for the likes of me. Eric has had a bit of success, but they sure are a challenge. Great shooting for these two though.
Thanks Gunta! I miss many for sure myself! 🙂
Cute babies, even if not the one you were looking for.
Keep looking for the yellow underpants. 😉
The two yellows I found made up for the yellow underpants I didn’t. But I will keep looking! 😉
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Great captures! The last yellow flash I saw was last week at Prime Hook. I was so excited, seeing yellow in a tree over the fishing area. Turns out it was a fishing lure. You definitely had better luck. Thanks for sharing!
😅 We all have funny stories on what we thought we saw at first! Thanks for the giggle this morning, Susan!
Just lovely! How fun!
Thank you, Lisa!
Great captures, Donna. 🙂
Thank you, HJ! 🙂
Beautiful
Thank you!
Beutiful flycatcher catch, with it’s dusty head.
Thank you, Hans! If the flycatcher hadn’t darted to the ground, I would have probably missed it. I love those lemony yellow bellies!
Great captures of the birds.
Thank you, Rudi!
Great pics Donna, but for a moment there I thought you said yellow underpants! 😉
Underpants works too as the description! hehe 😉 Thanks Mike!
Ahh… aren’t you really lucky!! All birds are coming your way, Donna!!
I love birding and feel blessed for all the sightings our Lord gives me. It’s up to me to ‘get the shot’! I love it!! 😊
The thrill of the hunt must be half the fun. 🙂 Love the Great Crested Flycatcher — it looks like the halves of two different kinds of birds joined in the middle.
Thank you, Barbara, the hunt is half the fun. 🙂 Yes, the flycatcher looks like he was dipped in colors, especially a lemony cream for the belly.
Great shots of an elusive (for me anyway) warbler.
Thanks Hien! This one was fast too, it was lickety-split as soon as it perched! I was real lucky with this shot.
Sorry you did not get images of Cape May Warbler! But you got other Great Images there!
Thanks Reed, I also got some nice shots of a Gray Catbird, but since s/he had no yellow, s/he didn’t make the ‘yellow’ post. 😉
Yes, you were! Those are wonderful sightings and images.
Thank you, Deborah!
You’re welcome! 😀
Really lovely birds, well caught even if it wasn’t the one you were after! Sometimes you go looking for something, and find something else but equally good!
Thank you, Sel! I so agree, there is always a surprise or two waiting in the wing if we look and listen good enough!
The great crested flycatcher is such a cool bird. Hope you find your Cape May Warbler.
I love this flycatcher’s lemony yellow belly, it is so striking! I looked for the Cape Warbler two more times but no luck. But I got lucky with some more ‘other bird’ shots. 🙂
Those two yellow birds were a great catch! I find any bird sighting is a welcome one.
Thank you! I agree, any bird sighting makes the heart happy!
Wow, that is fantastic! Great captures. We counted a Yellow-Rumped Warbler in our Christmas bird count but hope it is headed south cause it is going to get seasonally cold starting tomorrow.
Thanks, Jane! There are a lot of Yellow-rumps down here already soaking up their winter sun. 🌞
A very successful day in any case😊. Very nice!
Absolutely! Thank you, Belinda! 😊
Nice captures, Donna. Hope you find the rare and elusive CMW!
Thank you, Eliza! I went twice today, this morning and we rode by during our afternoon bike ride, and no CMW. A woman keeps reporting she sees it there every day. I even know what tree, lol.