Feathered Friday - Smaller Birds by the Wetlands

Here's a few birds near some wetlands I found for this #featheredfriday by @melinda010100

The first find was an American Yellow Warbler.

I see these guys often around wetland areas but they are so small and shy that I haven't been able to get a closer shot until now.

This guy posed nicely for a few shots while belting out his intricate song.

Nearby this house wren was eyeing me. It was fairly tame too and let me get a nice close shot.

The tree swallows are pretty common around all the wetland areas in Illinois. They are pretty good posers for shots while they are resting. Most of the time they are zooming around eating bugs in the air though.

This common yellowthroat is easy to find near lakes and marshes. The problem with capturing these guys in a photo is their small size and their hyperactivity. I got lucky with just one clear shot of him sitting still long enough.

Plenty of Orioles are out as well. This guy was found in a more forested area. Sadly he was right above me in the trees so I could only get upward shots of him.

Now for a more unusal find. This is a bobolink.

I found him in more of a prairie area rather than next to the water. These guys are almost like the red wing blackbirds but with a blonde head and white feathers on their back. It was hot out so he was panting in all my photos lol.

Finally here's a grackle looking nice and shiny against the swamp area in the background. I'll try and go back to this wetland area to get more pictures of the bobolink, maybe both the male and female. I might need to bushwack deeper into the prairie to find them though, and that means ticks :-(

Happy #featheredfriday