Blue-winged Warbler Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: For a species that's not really supposed to be found in South Dakota, they are awfully reliable and easy to find. The catch...there's really only one spot in the state where they're always found...a small patch of ground in Newton Hills State Park. It's a rather non-descript, semi-open area with scattered eastern red cedar and sumac, the same kind of habitat that's found in a number of other places in eastern South Dakota, but for some reason Blue-winged Warblers return to this same exact location year after year. The photo below is of a bird in this area, taken on May 16th, 2015.

Blue-winged Warbler - Vermivora cyanoptera


Blue-winged Warbler 1 May 28th, 2010 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 2 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 3 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 4 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota

Blue-winged Warbler 5 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 6 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 7 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 8 May 16th, 2011 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota

Blue-winged Warbler 9 May 14th, 2015 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 10 June 23rd, 2014 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 11 June 23rd, 2014 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 12 May 16th, 2018 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota

Blue-winged Warbler 13 May 14th, 2015 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Blue-winged Warbler 14 May 14th, 2015 Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota