Golden-Crowned Warbler

Not the best quality shots, but I caught him when I noticed movement in the shrubbery across from where I'd sat down for a rest on a trail around my local state park. It's my first encounter with this bird, though, so I wanted to show it!

He was well shaded, so I'm pleased how well he showed up. Data shows the distance as 7.5 meters, shot at 300mm on my new-to-me first-day-out D7000, no flash, and these are 1-to-1 crops 1280 pixels wide.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9...0/DSC_8663.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...0/DSC_8664.jpg

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Originally Posted by wfooshee

Not the best quality shots, but I caught him when I noticed movement in the shrubbery across from where I'd sat down for a rest on a trail around my local state park. It's my first encounter with this bird, though, so I wanted to show it!

He was well shaded, so I'm pleased how well he showed up. Data shows the distance as 7.5 meters, shot at 300mm on my new-to-me first-day-out D7000, no flash, and these are 1-to-1 crops 1280 pixels wide.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9...0/DSC_8663.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...0/DSC_8664.jpg

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Looking good. I think you are really going to like the D7000. Jeff

cute little bird..nice pics!

Nice shots

I cant wait for winter in Florida since this will be my first year with proper equipment to take some photos of our warbler invasion

Nice shots, might want to bring Paul in for a possitive ID but I'd say that is a Worm-eating Warbler.

Could be, with the belly fading from yellow to white, where on the golden-crowned it's yellow all the way back, from images I'm looking up for comparison. The heads are very close, and that's wehre I got my ID.

Either way, it's the first one I've seen. :)

I clicked on the link to see a Golden-crowned having never seen one when I looked at the photos the bird looked very familiar. The Worm-eating in Sibley's book shows a dark eye line the Golden-crowneds looks much lighter. Another thing that makes me think Worm-eating is the bill is large. I saw one last week never got a shot of it tough bird to get. I'm far from being an expert and get many ID's wrong, post a copy in summer bird thread see what Paul says.