Yellow-rumped Warbler. Lighthouse State Park, Cape May, New Jersey

If you know your birds, you know that this is NOT a Cape May Warbler. It is a Yellow-rumped Warbler, but I am in Cape May, New Jersey for the Cape May Autumn Bird Festival (formerly Cape May Autumn Weekend) and, as in most years, 70 out of every 100 migrant warblers you see here at the end of October are Yellow-rumped. Yesterday it was more like 99 out of 100, or, to be more precise, 499 out of the 500 or so warblers I saw. (The hold out was a female Common Yellow-throat.) You could easily be forgiving for assuming that the Yellow-rumped Warbler should be called the Cape May Warbler…at least for this weekend. 🙂

I like the lighting on this shot…subtly backlit. If you can view it large enough you will see every pin-feather on the bird’s breast. Nikon P610 at 1440mm equivalent field of view from about 8 feet. 1/400th @ ISO 100 @ f6.5. Processed in Lightroom.