Incredible image. And hope for those scattered insect seekers still
lurking about.
Charlie
Denver
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM DAVID A LEATHERMAN <daleatherman...>
wrote:
> On 14 November 2024 Lori Brummer went to see the Black-throated Blue
> Warbler found earlier that day by Lori Zabel. Lori B. got the photo below
> of the bird sitting on a bare branch in an aerial sea of large chironomid
> midges. She posted it to her eBird checklist and was nice enough to let me
> share it here as further evidence of what this beautiful, somewhat
> migration-challenged bird utilized to cope while heading southeast. I
> think the midge species shown matches the big gray one I posted close-ups
> of yesterday.
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> Another eBirder, Belle Farley Ciezak, posted on 14 November 2024 a pic of
> the Black-throated Blue Warbler (checklist ML626263053) that shows one of
> these midges in the beak of the bird.
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> Case closed.
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> I thank Brendan Beers for calling both Lori B.’s and Belle’s photos to my
> attention.
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> Dave Leatherman
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> Fort Collins
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