Fall Warblers in Louisville

I went out this weekend looking for fall warblers in Louisville and was not disappointed.  While fall warblers are harder to identify, they are more fun to watch because they forage more at ground level on berries and shrubs.  In spring you just about have to break your neck looking up in the tops of trees for birds while in fall most birds are a eye level snacking on grapes, pokeweed, or dogwoods.  Here are a few birds I saw this weekend:

Ovenbird

 
American Redstart (female)
 

Common Yellowthroat (female)




Yellow-throated Warbler

This is what the birds were eating, the berries from the Red-osier Dogwood.  These dogwoods are shrubs that grow along the edges of swampy woods.  If you can find these or grapevines with fruit still on them you have a good chance of seeing some warblers.