Bird Photography - Lenny Gorski's Portfolio

Yellow Warbler and Maple seed. One of my favorite Warblers. Not only a migrator but yellows also nest in CT. Letting us enjoy them all spring and summer.

Black-capped chickadee

Removing seeds from dried up flowers, they would then take and fly a short distance and hide the seed under the bark of various trees.

Prothonotary Warbler on Cypress knee

Francis Beidler Audubon boardwalk

May in South Carolina

Painted Bunting

Breeding adult male.

South Carolina

Indigo Bunting

Breeding adult Male - June

Lake Hammonasset CT

White-eye Vireo

Found over much of the Eastern and Southern US this one was in South Carolina

Painted Bunting Adult

Blue Wing Warbler at first light - May in CT

Painted Bunting

South Carolina

A Southern Bird.

The French named this bird nonpareil, meaning “without equal,”

We agree!

Yellow Throated Vireo

Chatfield Hollow Park, CT.

American Redstart Warbler

Hartman Park, Lyme CT

Indigo Bunting

Breeding adult male

June, Connecticut

Female Indigo Bunting W/insect

On a Reservoir Dam wall in graffiti

June in CT

Cerulean Warbler-prefers large older hardwood forests where it feeds and spends most of its time high in the canopy - It winters in South America and in the Spring migrates to the Eastern United States. It breeds here and on the southern edge of Canada.

Lyme CT in May

Red Eye Vireo. Slipping along a woods trail, I sported four or five Vireos quickly flying about, interacting. It was early spring and the fanned tail is a threat display, indicating pairing up, choosing a mate or a territorial dispute was likely occurring.

May in CT

Eye on the prize

Worm-eating Warblers are a long distance migrant spending winter in the Caribbean and Central America. It summers and breeds in the southern and eastern United States.

Worm-eating Warbler with flying Termite

May in CT

Worm-eating Warbler

This bird builds its nest on the ground and returns every year to the same area of woods. Territorial. 4.5"-5.2" and weighs 0.4-0.5 Oz.

Blue Wing Warbler

May in Connecticut is a special month. Over 30 different Warblers either stop here on migration or stop and stay to breed for the summer. This fine bird was at Lake Saltonstall Branford CT

Efficient Hunter

Robin with worms

Spring in Connecticut

Tufted Titmouse

Winter in Connecticut

Common Yellowthroat Warbler - Adult Male

Black and White Warbler

Funny how they resemble a Woodpecker in appearance and

mannerism, able to walk up and down the sides of trees.

May / CT

Female Bluebird

Winter colors

PINE WARBLER

Chatfield Hollow State Park

June - Connecticut

Usually near pine trees. Unique in that it eats a regular diet of seeds as well as insects whereas most other warblers diets are strictly insect. One of the first Warblers to return in the spring, often March in CT. About 5"- 5.5" and .03 - .05 oz.

~ Pause ~

Black Cap Chickadee

Fall - Connecticut

Likes to hang upside down on branch's a lot as it picks berries and seeds

Canada Jay in Flight

Western Maine

Quite the personality, These birds will often find you, in the middle of nowhere.

Winter Wren

One of 5 Wrens known in Connecticut

Fall

Cedar Waxwing

June - Connecticut

Often found near water. The Waxwings call is such a high frequency I cannot hear it most of the time.

Blue Jay in flight.

Smart, vocal and beautiful.

Bluejay

Fall in Connecticut

Yellow Warbler

August - Connecticut

Yellows arrive in the spring and breed in our area so they are found here all summer.

Swamp Sparrow

September - Maine

Who needs all those different colors? Proving even brown can be beautiful.

~ Puffball ~

Ruby Crowned Kinglet

September - Maine

What a cutie!

Rufus sided or Eastern Towhee

Female or immature

October - Connecticut

If your in the woods and hear leaves being flipped over and rustled, there is a good chance this Bird is whats doing it. Often located right next to trails, flipping leaves. An omnivore, they eat seeds, fruits, insects and pretty much anything else they find. Often hard to photograph in the wild, I have many pictures of the Male whose black feathers give a striking appearance but they are usually obscured by the twigs and brambles of the forest floor. When they hear you walking in the leaves, often they will call "Chewink" "Chewink" to see if you call back and identify as a Towhee yourself!

Goldfinch Male

Wild Black Eye Susan

August - Connecticut

Song Sparrow

September - Maine

Purple Martin

July - Connecticut

Hermit Thrush

September 28th in Maine

Of the five Thrush species in North America, Hermits are the last to migrate South in the fall.

~ Friends ~

Eastern Phoebes

Fall, Connecticut

~ Watching ~

Savannah Sparrow

Fall Connecticut

Swamp Sparrow

October in Connecticut

Always nests in wetlands like swamps, marshes and bogs. Eating a majority of plant matter in the winter, they switch to a diet of mostly insect or animal matter in the warm months.