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Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, my umbrella birdie friend! It had been raining since 6:00 a.m., and the weather had been in the low 40's all day, so I think this Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher was grateful for any shelter he could find. I was poking around some bushes with an umbrella in one hand, shielding my Nikon...

I have several of these Blue-gray Gnatcatchers flying around every morning! I took this photo with an Olympus E-410 and a 70-300mm lens.

This photo was taken at the Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas, Texas.

This small gray bird was foraging low in the brush. Imaged at Webster Pond in Syracuse, New York.

Good look at the undertail, close cropped.

Due to arthritis, I do a lot of car birding. I have a hybrid SUV (no noise) with a moon roof. This allows me to sneak up on birds by driving smack under the limbs of big trees and shooting straight up. This little gnatcatcher seems to be saying "What the heck are you?" from the look on his...

I heard lots of warblers this morning and went outside to try to get some photos. One of the photos, however, turned out to be this Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.

I haven't seen these for several months in my yard in central Florida, but all of a sudden, they are back! They are probably one of the hardest birds to photograph because they rarely stand still. I used an Olympus E-410, 70-300mm lens, 1/160 shutter, ISO 400.

His voice sounds like a catbird's and he was very hard to photograph. The uncommon bird was in numbers at a suburban park east of Syracuse, New York.

Is this bird sunbathing? I saw this behavior several times before it flew up to a perch to preen. I always kept away. The bird in the foreground is a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Is this bird okay?