Yellow Rumped Warbler(s)

Continuing our exploration of Little Birds Who Are Damn Difficult To Photograph Because They Won't Bloody Well Hold Still. I am given to understand that this particular phylum is quite widespread and very populous.

Thus I'm completely unprepared to tell you if all of these are the same individual or different ones. They were all over in the trees and seemed to be keenly interested in the little pinecones, in some cases even hanging upside down in the branches to get at them. I wasn't able to snap a photo of any of those, though, because they'd only stay there for a split second and then flit off to somewhere else.

This is another one of those birds with multiple plumage variations specifically evolved to annoy birdspotters and confound identification. Based on what I can see in the guidebooks, these are the Myrtle variant and most of the ones I managed to capture are female. Yellow Rumped Warblers are so named because of their most identifiable feature: a yellow patch of features found on their backs just above the butt, which they will of course consistently fail to present to you.

Additional snaps:

Full size of the headline image here.