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Black-throated Blue Warbler
Setophaga caerulescens

Featured Image Credit: “‘Black-throated Blue Warbler ‘Setophaga Caerulescens’ Moonglow Dairy Monterey County, CAIMG_9733” by Always a birder! is licensed under CC BY 2.0

To hear songs, learn identification information, migratory patterns, and some fun facts, check out the Black-throated Blue Warbler page offered by one of my favorite resources: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology »

It was cool to spot this bird near the creek during the early spring, as they don’t breed here. It was just passing through on it’s migration further into the Northeast and southern Canada where it has it’s breeding grounds.

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