By David Eastman
We have recently commented that quite a few of the beautiful warblers pass through here on their way to nesting in the boreal forest. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of their brief transit through this region of New Hampshire. I am thrilled whenever I see a species. Theirs is always an interesting story ecologically, since they are so rigidly specific regarding their breeding territories and foraging habits in the far northern Canadian spruce-fir forests they seasonally inhabit.
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