On
my visit to the birding mecca of Magee Marsh on the Ohio shore of Lake
Erie in May 2010, the breeding-plumage male Blackburnians allowed me
only the very distant shots above, but I post the resulting images
anyway as a record of my first time photographing these beauties, among
the most spectacular of American songbirds. The female Blackburnian in
non-breeding plumage below is much less spectacular, but it was an
impressive rarity for the SF Bay Area when it lingered for an extended
period during the winter of 2011-12 in and around Rinconada Park in
Palo Alto.
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