Warblers in the binoculars

Birdwatching in the winter is very much a come and go affair. Your bird feeders can be filled with goldfinches and redpolls one day and they are gone the next. That’s all part of the fun, though and yet another reason to constantly watch the feeders with your binoculars.

Still, as much as I love watching the feeders with my binoculars during the winter months, I’m a bit anxious to be out in the woods, again, birding binoculars in hand, actively checking the trees for migrating warblers. That’s still a good three months away, but thats what winter dreams are made of for a gal who loves her bird watching.

Our north woods of Wisconsin do get warblers, though not quite the diversity you see in the southern hardwoods and farm country to the south. While living in the Chicago area, for instance, I remember one day when I recorded twenty warbler species and a number of days when I managed to see fifteen species. That’s a lot of warbler action in the binoculars, just about anywhere.

Okay, back to watching birds at the feeders. We still have some three months of winter to go. That's a lot of cabin fever.