WALTON WARBLER...

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Pine Warbler

Thursday, 6:50 AM – The Eastern Meadowlarks on Snows Mill Road are making themselves quite visible and tease me each morning on drive way into work. The scene is picture perfect: a barbed-wire fence in front of a large, grassy meadow glowing bright in the orange in the sunrise. But every time I slow the truck, they fly up off the fence and onto the power lines; a less awe-inspiring photo.
 
Arriving at work a bit early, I made my surveys of the main pond, upper pond, duckweed bog and beaver swamp. Not too much different there except that there are now three families of Canada Geese with different aged goslings. The original 6 goslings have grown and now all sport the black and white heads. The second pair that arrived with 4 goslings a few weeks ago is down to only 3 goslings now. And a new pair with smaller goslings has arrived.
 
Quickly walking back to my office to beat the 8 AM clock in, I spotted a small yellow warbler. A Pine Warbler… and how fitting that he was up in a Loblolly Pine tree! This was my first Pine Warbler in Walton County, Georgia. 

​Walton County, Georgia
Sunny, with a high near 89. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Sunrise 6:22, sunset 8:42 pm
Day length: 14 hours, 20 minutes
Moon: waning crescent, 41% illumination

Eastern Meadowlark on a power line over Snows Mill Road; Walton County, GA.

Juvenile Canada Goose gosling; Walton County, GA

Pine Warlber songbird, Setophaga pinus, perched in a Loblolly Pine Tree, Pinus taeda. Photographed in June in Walton County, Monroe, GA. The Pine Warbler is common in many eastern pine forests and is rarely seen away from pines. These yellowish warblers are hard to spot as they move along high branches to prod clumps of needles with their sturdy bills. Pinus taeda, commonly known as loblolly pine, is one of several pines native to the Southeastern United States, from central Texas east to Florida, and north to Delaware and southern New Jersey.