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6 February 2023, on the plane heading home
Today I’m on a “red eye” flight from Quito to the U.S. If all goes well I’ll be home tonight after 15 hours of pre-flight waiting, flying, layovers, and ground transportation.
It will take a lot longer for the Blackburnian warblers we saw in Ecuador to reach their breeding grounds in North America.
![Blackburnian warbler (photo by Steve Gosser)](https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BLBN_blackburnian_0022_rsz_sgosser.jpg)
I wonder when they’ll start flying north.
(photos from Wikimedia Commons and by Steve Gosser)