This photo is special to me as it took two years of Alaskan trips just to see the bird and another two years to get close enough to capture this shot. The Bluethroat shows up near Nome, Alaska(Mile marker 21,Teller Rd.)at the end of May, first of June to establish his territory with a series of flight displays.Within a couple of weeks the females arrive and the secretive little Bluethroat becomes extremely difficult to see amongst the vegetation which has now fully leafed out. Once I located a favorite site that the Bluethroat would sing from, I knelt down in the brush and snow and waited for him to return.