Sorry for the late post, but I have no internet access at my second home in
the mountains. I spent the 21st through 23rd there and had a bit of luck with
the first taste of fall migration. The pooled 3-day species total was 41,
which is not bad for my little "patch." I had the season's first true passage
migrants, a Blackburnian Warbler and a Canada Warbler. The latter is a rarity
there, and increasingly so in recent years. I may have had a glimpse of a
Mourning Warbler, but it was too fleeting and I couldn't relocate the bird in
the
dense undergrowth. Other species that don't breed there included: Eastern
Wood-Pewee, Prairie Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Chestnut-sided Warbler,
Worm-eating Warbler, and American Redstart. ( I recognize that many if not all
of
these breed in the region, but I only see them in migration.) Some of the
breeders were already gone, but a few Indigo Buntings, Yellow-billed Cuckoos,
Brown
Thrashers, Red-eyed Vireos, and catbirds remained. No thrushes at all. I
watched for nighthawks both evenings, but saw none. Raptors were very scarce,
but
that is not unusual for the place and this time of the year.
Dave Davis
Arlington
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