The April 26, 2014, Quail Valley Backyard Tour featured as one of its five diverse gardens the nature garden of Janice and John Scanlan . . . Photographer Margaret Sloan was generous to help with questions from birders, would be birders and those curious about photography. At first the birds were spooked with the public, but quickly began to ignore all the attendees. Besides the usual number of frequent and seasonal visitors to the garden, we had visits from two migrating Warblers . . . a Chestnut-sided Warbler and a Black-Throated Green Warbler . . . who returned 3 times to the Scanlan's large Yaupon Holly Tree. . . Margaret got this photo.
The Black-throated Green Warbler viewed from the ground . . . it's a Green Warbler due to the dull olive green "cap", back and wings, but what a face and throat!
See our feature on Chestnut-sided Warblers as well as a dazzling multi-flock downed by a storm for us to enjoy.
Photos copyrighted by Quail Valley resident and international birder Margaret Sloan. View her international and national bird pictures by pressing this link.
See a bird you don't recognize in Fort Bend? Margaret has photographed 150+ bird species just in her suburban Fort Bend,Texas backyard alone. Narrow your initial search by viewing her full photo album of local birds, Birds of Quail Valley by pressing this link. They are organized by types of birds, so if it's a water bird for example, you may find one that helps you narrow your search. Then if you "google in" the name of the bird, you'll get info and all kinds of information and images. Sometimes if a species is remarkably different from adult you may find nothing, contact us and we'll do our best to help.
Researched and posted by Janice Scanlan. Click photos to enlarge them.
To see photos of the Scanlan nature garden, press here.
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