I’ve never been overly fond of yellow. After spending an inordinate amount of time looking through pictures trying to identify little yellow birds, I am even less fond of it now.
The last time we were at the lake, the trees and bushes were full of bright flashes of yellow. One of the most common little LYJ’s turned out to be yellow warblers. I’m quite proud of this shot – it’s not often the frigging little things sit still long enough for a picture.
It’s really too bad I wasn’t closer for this photo, but I had to include it anyway. This is a yellow warbler photographed on a smoky evening. Note the bug about to meet its end.
After going cross eyed looking at pictures of little yellow birds, I discovered a large number of my shots were of busy little American goldfinch.
Unfortunately none of my shots of the common yellowthroats turned out, but they were certainly flitting around, adding to the yellowness of the day. Yellow-rumped warblers also made more than one fuzzy appearance in my pictures.
The yellow-headed blackbirds were around too, nicely sitting still for more than a nano-second.
And speaking of yellowness..
I was enjoying myself wandering around taking pictures of the flowers in bloom, blissfully ignoring the fact that I’m allergic to the pollen in most yellow flowers. By the end of the day, my eyes felt like they had been sandpapered. I guess it’s not that surprising I don’t like yellow…
Yellow turned out not so bad on this day as you got some great pics…and congrats on catching one sitting still just long enough to capture the moment.
And may the antihistamines be plentiful!
Super post!! Sorry about the allergies!
I can see your eyes go criss-cross looking for the birds in this photos 🙂 That’s why I started liking fall and winter: no leaves and not that many colors…
I like the yellow-headed blackbird!