Nashville warblers are regular visitors in our yard during migration. They especially like eating insects attracted to the crabapple trees and their blossoms in the spring. They sure are cute with that little, white eye ring. These warblers have some small reddish feathers on top of their head that I’ve very seldom seen. As a diagnostic field mark on a Nashville Warbler flitting around in a tree as seen through binoculars, it is pretty much worthless! Occasionally, I’ve not even noticed the red on the cap until I get home and look through the photos on the computer.
While I’ve painted many warblers, this is my first Nashville Warbler, mostly because I’ve not gotten many great reference photos. I totally blew the exposure on the shot that I based the majority of this painting on, but the pose was fun. The background was all grays and greens from the cherry tree outside our kitchen window, but I thought it would be fun to have the bird peeking out of the foliage to an open blue sky.
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