Red Eye Vireo

Boy are these tough for me to get!

wow, 3rd one and the last two with the red eye are awesome

very nice set Ken

Excellent set of the Red-eyed Vireo ... a difficult capture in the foliage of summer... I am now watching a nesting pair feeding their chicks.

db

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Boy are these tough for me to get! /Ken

....but get him you did! Well done and great shots. I was going to post a couple too but yours put me to shame

Excellent job. They're always buried in the foliage, aren't they.
Al

These are great!

Great set of shots Ken, not the easiest bird to have a photo shoot with.

Thanks everyone! They are tough, and the three I was chasing would NOT stay in the sunlight for a second -

Wallace River Post'em up! Don't ever worry about Yours vs Others! I chased these guys forever and still not happy about not getting one in the sun.

Dbriz You found a nest? That's terrific! How high up?

Went back up today with my flash (used pop up on a couple yesterday) -
Thanks again everyone,
Ken

very nice series

The nest is about 12 feet off the ground in a small fork extending out on a white cedar branch. They weave their nests out of finely woven vegetable fiber, strips of birch bark, grasses, and cob-webs and lined with fine grasses, ornamented exteriorly with cocoons, bits of wasps' and spiders' nests. It looks like a very large softball delicately hanging in the fork of the branch.
Here is a photo of mother vireo in the nest.

Terrific series!

Thanks everyone -

dbriz How cool is that! I haven't seen that, thanks for posting - perhaps I'll take a closer look around tomorrow.