Labor Day

Quick trip to the Arboretum this morning paid off, in quality if not qantity.

Perfect views of a Carolina Wren and Northern Flicker.

The Colonials Football Team

 

Late Summer Birding

Had some nice mornings at Great Meadows, with plenty of female and adolescent wood ducks.

With the help of some better birders and photographers, also ID'd a peregrine falcon.

Spent a couple of days in Maine and found great views of two brown creepers.

It's now September, and I think there are some warblers out there.  I spotted either a northern parula, female common yellowthroat, or a Nashville yesterday and the Arboretum.  It seemed the yellow stopped pretty early, which seems like a Parula.  But I don't think I saw the wing bars.  And the common yellowthroat is resident so it seems the most likely, though there have been a lot of reports of nashville's in the area.