Comments on: My Life’s Birds: #369

By: jason

jason — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:07:22 +0000

Absolutely true! Indeed, how lucky. (Though I’m a tad jealous that they only pass through here. Always in a hurry to go someplace…)

By: Dawn Fine

Dawn Fine — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:04:33 +0000

Always enjoy these posts….
one of my fav. warblers…

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:34:24 +0000

@Corey- That’s really cool. I never thought about it that way.

@Robert- How bout I trade you for a Townsend’s Warbler.

By: Robert Mortensen

Robert Mortensen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:46 +0000

Amen to that! Please send a Blackburnian Warbler toward Idaho!

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:20:57 +0000

I love that the bird is named after someone named Blackburn but that the name still fits because that orange is like fire.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:35:00 +0000

@DDolan- Thanks! I don’t really have a great story about my first Blackburnian. My notes say I saw it in the backyard of the old Linden house my family lived in when I was young, I birded back there quite a bit. But sadly I don’t have a strong enough memory of it to turn into that kind of post so I considered a meditation on the bird itself.

I have much better memories of the bird since then, it’s probably my favorite warbler. I always really enjoy seeing them.

By: DDolan1075

DDolan1075 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:17:55 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly. I saw my first Blackburnian the way I have seen most of my warblers, at High Island last spring. You know how you look at some birds and stop getting excited after the umpteenth bird? Didn’t happen last spring. Every time I saw one, I would get the camera and keep on shooting.

No good story about your first one? BTW I really like these entries about your lifebirds.