Dauphin Island 4/14 - 4/20/2016

These are some of the photos that I took while Joyce and I were on Dauphin Island. We arrived in the midst of a fallout. Prothonotary, Hooded and Blue-winged Warblers were everywhere. Also thick were Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, Indigo Buntings and Blue Grosbeaks. For the first three days we could see easily 15 of each of the above species each day. I never thought I would say "Oh just another Hooded or Prothonotary". I had a female Prothonotary female working 10 feet in front of me and not paying any attention to us. Also had other birds that were so tired that they would set and ignore everything around them. There were some Bottle Brush bushes at the cemetary that were loaded with birds. The birds were getting nectar and probably insects attracted to the flowers.


These were from Meridan Mississippi on our way down.

Blue Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak

Barn Swallow
Black and White Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler

Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler

Blue-winged Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cape May Warbler

Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren
Chuck Will's Widow

Common Nighthawk
Common Yellowthroat
Mottled Duck

Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird
Female Eastern Towhee (Rufous-sided Towhee)

Gray Catbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Hooded Warbler

Hooded Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Laughing Gull

Northern Parula
Northern Parula
Northern Rough-winged Swallow

The yellow on the face is from pollen in the flowers.

Orchard Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Orchard Oriole

Painted Bunting
Painted Bunting
Painted Bunting

Painted Bunting
Palm Warbler
Prairie Warbler

Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler

Red-eyed Vireo
Redbellied Woodpecker
Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Turnstone
Scarlet Tanager

Scarlet Tanager
Sunner Tanager
Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager
Tennessee Warbler
Tennessee Warbler

Cattle Egret
Veery
White-eyed Vireo

Worneating Warbler
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo