composition – The Jersey Birder

A blue grosbeak, full frame

Blue grosbeak perched on a stalk surrounded with green -- leaves to the right, grasses behind. The bird is blue with a silver beak. It has two rust-colored bars on its black wing.

I have no data to prove it, but when it comes to getting photos of the most colorful birds on my outings, I usually hear them before I see them. That’s true for cardinals, blue jays, Northern yellow warblers, indigo buntings, and blue grosbeaks. At the Pole Farm this morning, I heard several indigo buntingsContinue reading “A blue grosbeak, full frame”