Every winter I get a few pine warblers (Setophaga pinus) that show up in the woods around my house. Most of the time they are pretty shy and not easy to photograph. They usually stay either in the underbrush or up in one of the oak trees in my yard. They seem to prefer areas that are thick and well covered. This little male was like that too when he first showed up, but I guess he discovered that there was good food at the feeding station. At first he would just show up and watch, but it didn’t take long for him to come down and eat. Usually only once and just for a minute or so at a time. The past few days, though, he’s been coming around more and more and today he perched in the underbrush right in front of me and I was able to get this shot. He’s been around for about three weeks and I don’t know how long he will stay. I haven’t seen any females around, so I suspect that he is just taking a break from his migration back to the breeding grounds. Like many other migratory birds, the males leave the wintering range first in order to set up their territories and the females follow a few weeks later.

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