In addition to all the wonderful little chicks, Spring brings migration! Here are some from a morning at Lake Mills Park.

Black and White Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-throated Vireo

Northern Parula

The warblers are migrating…  time to the look at the tops of the trees!

Northern Parula

Yellow-throated Warbler

Black and White Warbler

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

New field guide painting, the Warblers of Merritt Island Part 2:

Featuring:
American Redstart
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-winged Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Golden-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Tennessee Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Worm Eating Warbler

This painting does not stand alone, there were too many warblers so I did two paintings. Here is Part 1, done quite some time ago:

Prints are made, I will have them this weekend at The Big Crafty in Asheville, NC and will ad them to etsy when I return.

Lots of Northern Parulas around this week.

Nice to see this little Prairie Warbler in the tree out the window today. So pretty.

What a lovely morning to be off work. It was warm and breezy. There were birds singing everywhere.

The Red-headed Woodpecker appears to be nesting in the dead pine that the Kestrel likes to sit on, today they were both there, I wonder if they mind one another?

I also spooked a couple of Bob White’s, sorry to spook them but it’s hard to see ground birds when you are too busy looking up! Most of those little warblers and such are so high up in the trees. I had my first sighting of Northern Parula in the yard.

Northern Parula

White-eyed Vireo

Last year for Christmas I gave my parents a painting of the permanent resident birds of the North Carolina mountains. This year, I painted the warblers and other small birds that migrate through their area. Now that Christmas is over I can post it up!

Here is a closer look at a few of them:

Most of these birds will visit the mountains in Summer, while I am used to seeing them in Florida during the Winter!

Here are some darling little warblers! They are easy to hear, but a lot harder to see… get some binoculars and look in the very tops of the trees.

Now it is a great season for shorebirds so I am painting sandpipers and plovers…30+ of them, it might be a while!!

I knew there was a Barred Owl family with owlet at Mead Gardens, today I finally went and saw them. That is Papa Owl in photo above. The owlet is already as big as the adults, although that is with a considerable amount of fluff. Owls are so cool, and this made my day!

Mead Gardens is a beautiful location. There are a lot of birds, bugs, and flowers. I saw some of the migrating birds, since they are too hard to photograph I drew a picture of some of the warblers I saw today: