Insects(?) On Ice

Top Photo: Yellow-rumped warbler forages on frozen pond ice. I was standing on the boardwalk looking down at an ice starĀ a dozen feet or more below me. Something else caught my eye. A handful of small birds were hopping along on the ice of the pond pecking at some unseen, to my eyes, objects on the ice. The birds were warblers, yellow-rumped warblers (butter-butts), a species that can take the winter cold far more readily than most other warbler species.Read more