Blackburnian Warbler 2011

The Blackburnian Warbler is one of my favorite warblers.  I love the male's flaming orange-yellow throat and bold facial pattern.  They favor the top of the tree canopy, making it a challenge to get a good view of them.  This guy was at LaBagh Woods  in Chicago with a cloud of birds, working the lower branches.  He even made a visit to the ground, so he was very easy to see.  Chicago is just one stop in his migration from the mountains of Peru to the North Woods of Canada and back.  BLBW was named after Anna Blackburne (1726 – 1793), an English botanist who helped describe new species from the New World.