Written By Denise Marie Sobieski; Photos by Bill Mitchell

There are many reasons to love springtime, and the migration of warblers, birds of the family Parulidae, is one of them! If you visit any of the OLC nature preserves, you will likely see or hear warblers, a diverse group of active little birds, many of them with beautiful plumage and songs. Because warblers mainly feed on insects, they are found during our seasons of warm weather. Many of them flit among the high branches of the trees but look for others skulking in the vegetation much closer to the ground, like the Black and White Warbler who loves to crawl along the trunks and large branches of trees like a nuthatch. Look for these early migrants. Happy birding!