Black-throated Green Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

A warbler with a lemon-yellow face that is common in the Northeast United States and Southeast Canada in the northern summer. In the summer it feeds mostly on caterpillars in coniferous and deciduous forests. This species spends the northern winter in tropical America where it eats the buds of the cecropia  tree.

We have seen this species in Northern Ohio as it makes its way across the lakes to northern forests in Canada.

Photo taken at Magee Marsh, 2018.

Silver-throated Tanager

Silver-throated Tanager. Photo Taken at Las Cruces Biological Station, Costa Rica (David Zittin 2018)

We ran into our first Silver-throated Tanager by accident when we saw something yellow flitting around in a nearby tree. We were amazed at its beauty. It’s namesake isn’t always apparent, the bright yellow head and the greenish wings with black lines catches the eye long before the silver throat.