Rondeau Ric

  I don't normally do video but we had a fall out today at our water feature. This only some of the warblers. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Sept 21, 2025. A bouquet of warblers.

  Up close and personal, September 18, 2025. Our yard, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Lots of warbler activity the last two days and this is one of 14 species of warbler that came by the yard. Setophaga pensylvanica The Chestnut-sided Warbler sings two basic songs: one is accented at the end (the  pleased-to- meetcha  song), and the other is not. Males sing the accented songs primarily to attract a female; once nesting is well underway they switch over to the unaccented songs, which are used mostly in territory defense and aggressive encounters with other males. Some males sing only unaccented songs, and they are less successful at securing mates than males that sing both songs. source-allaboutbirds-org

  Not sure what this mourning dove was doing. First it lifted one wing then after a moment it switched and lifted its other wing. Didn't bathe while it was doing it, just sat there. Odd. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Sept 8, 2025. Zenaida macroura Mourning Doves tend to feed busily on the ground, swallowing seeds and storing them in an enlargement of the esophagus called the crop. Once they’ve filled it (the record is 17,200 bluegrass seeds in a single crop!), they can fly to a safe perch to digest the meal. source-allaboutbirds-org

 We had thirteen species of warblers today, I missed photographing 3 but Anne and I got the other 10. This is group- wrench- of warblers including black and white, black throated green and a chestnut sided warbler having a communal bath in our little water feature. The birds were coming and going so fast it was hard to get more than three species together. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, September 17, 2025.

 A pair of misnamed warblers. I thought it was fun to capture both of these warblers together naming Nashville, Tennessee . Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, September 13, 2025.   Nashville Warblers are only found in Tennessee during migration Leiothlypis ruficapilla - Nashville warbler. Despite breeding no closer to the state of Tennessee than northern Michigan, 600 miles away, the Tennessee Warbler was given its name by Alexander Wilson based on a bird he encountered in Tennessee during its migration. Leiothlypis peregrina-Tennessee warbler. source- allaboutbirds-org.

Philadelphia vireo. An unusual visitor to our yard and water feature. They migrate through our area, they just don't stop here often. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, September 12, 2025. Vireos tend to do what we call a "dive and dip" bath. They sit on a branch above the water and suddenly dive into the water, then straight back out to a perch. Vireo philadelphicus Philadelphia Vireo was named in 1851 by American ornithologist John Cassin, who described the species based on a specimen of a migrant in Philadelphia. A local name for the species in that city was once “Brotherly-love Vireo.” source-allaboutbirds-org.