Yellow Warbler
Description:
Male: Bright yellow overall with chestnut to reddish streaks on belly and breast.
Female: Duller yellow with olive wings and back, streaks are faint or not present on belly.
Habitat: Streams, marshes, rivers and thickets. Usually near water. On migration they can be found in most areas with food sources.
Diet: Small insects such as flies, caterpillars and moths. Young are also fed insects, particularly caterpillars.
Nest: Compact cup of weed stems, fine grass, plant fibers, cocoons, strips of grapevine bark, and deer hair. The fibrous bark of dead swamp milkweed stalks make up a large part of the nest in areas where it is available. Also heavily used is cattail down. Usually built 1-8 feet from the ground. Built commonly in willow, alder, arrow wood, gray bark dogwood, and meadow-sweet. Observed using fibers of string in nest.
Eggs: 4 - 5 pale greenish eggs with brown flecking. Often the secondary color is concentrated at the large end of the egg.
Male: Bright yellow overall with chestnut to reddish streaks on belly and breast.
Female: Duller yellow with olive wings and back, streaks are faint or not present on belly.
Habitat: Streams, marshes, rivers and thickets. Usually near water. On migration they can be found in most areas with food sources.
Diet: Small insects such as flies, caterpillars and moths. Young are also fed insects, particularly caterpillars.
Nest: Compact cup of weed stems, fine grass, plant fibers, cocoons, strips of grapevine bark, and deer hair. The fibrous bark of dead swamp milkweed stalks make up a large part of the nest in areas where it is available. Also heavily used is cattail down. Usually built 1-8 feet from the ground. Built commonly in willow, alder, arrow wood, gray bark dogwood, and meadow-sweet. Observed using fibers of string in nest.
Eggs: 4 - 5 pale greenish eggs with brown flecking. Often the secondary color is concentrated at the large end of the egg.