Yesterday’s post featured a handsome Yellow-throated Warbler. Today’s bird is another sharp looking fella, the Common Yellowthroat.
I found this young male (molting) at Bass Park in Holly Springs NC earlier this week sitting on a bridge rail looking as sweet as could be.

Though these birds have similar names, unlike the Yellow-throated Warbler, the Common Yellowthroat is the most widespread breeding warbler in the country, nesting across most of Canada and the United States. Not only do these little ones have a wide breeding range, as their namesake suggests they are an easily found bird, and thus is one of the top three most abundant warblers on the continent.

They breed in all 100 counties of North Carolina and spend the wintertime in our Coastal Plain region.
During the warmer months of the nesting season, Yellowthroats may be found in freshwater to marginally brackish marshes, thickets, overgrown fields, brier patches, woodland edges, and other dense /shrubby types of brush.
When winter arrives, they will abandon the dry fields in favor of wetland areas.

Though they are abundant around the Tarheel State, they can be tough to see (because of their preference to hang out in dense brushy undergrowth). Lucky for us, Common Yellowthroats are quite curious birds and will come out to say hello to ya if you make pishing noises.

Photos by @sally_siko of @birdwatching_nc on the fabulous full frame SLR, the @canonusa
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