{"id":2341,"date":"2011-10-17T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2011-10-16T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T01:01:11","slug":"bwbtc-outing-in-wilton-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/bwbtc-outing-in-wilton-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"BwBTC Outing in Wilton, Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a chance to meet up with a Facebook birding group I have been learning from the last year or so. The group is Birders who Blog, Tweet and Chirp (BwBTC<\/a><\/strong>). I was a little intimidated as I am a novice birder. The group was led by Luke Tiller who did a great job of identifying birds for the group, although everyone in the group was very helpful. The birding day stopped at 3 locations, Allen’s Meadow, Schenck’s Island and Sherwood Island State Park. Unfortunately I was only able to attend the first leg at Allen’s Meadow. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

One of the first photo ops I had was of this Palm Warbler<\/p>\n

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Palm Warbler at Sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a beautiful bird and one that was new to my species list.<\/p>\n

Next on the hit parade was the Savannah Sparrow. There were several of them around and they were very photogenic!<\/p>\n

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Savannah Sparrow Profile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Savannah Sparrow with Raised Crown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Savannah Sparrow in Tall Grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This last image stood out to me as more of an environmental, made very interesting by the fall foliage I was able to blur in the background.<\/p>\n

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Upside Down Black Capped Chickadee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lastly, a group of Black Capped Chickadees entertained us with their antics trying to pull seed from dead, hanging sunflower seed heads. All in all I made some new friends and I can’t wait for the opportunity to learn more from this group in the future.<\/p>\n

Images captured with Nikon D700, 600mm f\/4 w\/1.4 Tce-II on Lexar Digital Film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a chance to meet up with a Facebook birding group I have been learning from the last year or so. The group is Birders who Blog, Tweet and Chirp (BwBTC). I was a little intimidated as I am a novice birder. The group was led by Luke Tiller who did a great job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t