Warblers are generally brilliantly coloured small active birds that have short pointed bills. Wood-Warblers are regularly solitary birds that may form free mixed species flocks during migration with chickadees and other songbirds. In spring they are more often vibrant in their mating plumage as they migrate north to the boreal forests but become dull and muted in plumage for the remainder of the year. Warblers can also travel large distance from the far Northern Hemisphere to the northern tip of South America, the Caribbean, the Indian Subcontinent and Asia; they are thus sometimes also referred to as neo-tropical birds. Warblers generally live off of insects and small berries or nectar.
Gerard is very fond of Warblers and has over the course of his short time as a “birder” and photographer spent a great deal of time pursuing photographs of these small, often multicoloured, woodland birds.