Monday, December 1, 2025

Multiple Yellow rumped Warblers to start off December

Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle'
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', Hadley, MA, Dec 1, 2025
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle'
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', Hadley, MA, Dec 1, 2025
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle'
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', Hadley, MA, Dec 1, 2025
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle'
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', Hadley, MA, Dec 1, 2025
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle'
Yellow rumped Warblers 'myrtle', Hadley, MA, Dec 1, 2025

I headed out this morning with cool and windy conditions and initially I was not going to go back to Hadley to try again for the Audubon's Warbler I had there yesterday.  The weather was not optimal plus it was the first day of shotgun season for deer season and that usually means you don't want to be anywhere near any place where hunting is allowed.  After a quick stop at Winsor Dam I decided to try my luck over in Hadley again with the couple hours I had free.  I just kept my fingers crossed there would not be many hunters at the location and thankfully there was just one.  I didn't want to disrupt any hunters (seen or unseen) so did not cover all the areas I normally would have covered.  Although I did not find the Audubon's I did have at least nine Myrtle subspecies of Yellow rumped Warblers.  With the warblers this morning I have extended by streak of seeing at least one warbler species in Hampshire County to 104 consecutive months!