While I had trouble the other day getting a clear shot of a yellow-rumped warbler eating berries, I was able to get one this morning at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm.
I can’t say whether it was one of the birds I saw Sunday, but it was the same tree that the bird was on a little after 8’clock. That yellow-rumped warbler was the most exotic species I’d see in about an hour on an otherwise quiet morning.
I arrived at the park as dawn was breaking at 7:25 a.m. I’m looking forward to our return to standard time over the weekend. I’ll be able to have more time and daylight to go birding each morning before hustling home and getting off to work.
Sunset will come an hour earlier, too, but that doesn’t affect me because I rarely get home before 5 p.m. most days. On late fall and winter weekends, I like the earlier sunsets because I can finish birding soon enough to get home at a reasonable hour for dinner.
Our late afternoon sunsets in December correspond to the arrival of short-eared owls and perhaps a few long-eared ones. It won’t be long before that spectacle returns. 🦅
The Jersey Birder 
Ah, what I’d give to see short- and long-eared owls!! The consistent birder gets the sightings!
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