Week 34 – American Redstart

 

American Redstart. Photograph by Neil Paprocki.

This may or may not be considered cheating but this bird was just too cool to pass up on.

I won’t normally post photos of birds in the hand, but I’m making this one exception for the year. The American Redstart is a rarity out west and this was most likely the first ever adult male redstart captured at the Idaho Bird Observatory’s Lucky Peak fall migration station!

Until next time.

All of the previous 52-week blog posts can be found at the Wild Lens blog or on Flickr.