
Vegetation surrounding the boardwalk at Magee Marsh is green, lush, and dense. Warblers and many of the other birds that migrate through Magee Marsh are tiny and they can easily hide in the canopy. Hearing birds was not a problem there. Locating them once they have made their presence known could be difficult, especially for people like me. I always seem to be the last person to spot a subject even after I’ve been alerted to it and its location has been pointed out to me. Yesterday morning as we looked for a bird whose voice we heard, Moose called out to me and pointed to a female Philadelphia Vireo on a thin trunk. I spotted it immediately, much to my surprise, probably because it did stick out a bit amidst the green background and I managed to get a few clicks before it disappeared behind a leaf. It looked like it was peeking around and taunting me as if to say, “Peek-a-boo, here I am, try to photograph me if you can.”