Happy Thursday friends ☺️From last January, these Purple Finch were a welcome sight after a long, cold & quiet hike at an area Metropark's "Window on Wildlife". Nice to warm up and share some time with these beauties. #birds🪶 #ohbirding #naturephotography #wildlife #OakOpeningsPreserve

A White-eyed Vireo on a small branch looking back toward the photographer.

White-eyed vireo is a small songbird with gray head, that contrasts with their olive green back, with yellow spectacles over pale white eyes.

Cool fact about Vireos, they all have blue legs and feet.

Note the yellow "spectacles" surrounding those beautifully striking white eyes.

Is it difficult to go birding in extreme heat? Yes-but when you capture shots of a certain bird, all that sweat is worth the effort. Been looking for a White-eyed Vireo for 2 weeks. Yesterday, my sweat equity finally paid off. #Birds #BirdingOH #OakOpeningsPreserve #nature #photography

A Yellow-breasted Chat talked to me for over and hour...mixing calls with whistling and laughing-yet refused to come high enough out of the brush for me to see. Considering I snapped these shots last year, I figured, they will have to do. #Birds #BirdingOH #YellowbreastedChat #OakOpeningsPreserve