Fall Migration

By time necessity, this blog has been 99% a photo blog lately.  I haven’t had much time to write, and what little time I have had, I’ve been doing something that I love to do in the fall – no, not college football but birding.  This summer, my birding gave way (mostly) to chasing around butterflies and dragonflies.  But with fall migration in full swing, I switched back to the original passion – birding.

It’s been a good year, too.  Since about mid-August or so, I’ve added 9 species to my lifelist (now up to 264 species), mostly in the warbler category.  And I’ve had a very good year of identifying – and seeing – warblers, particularly at my new favorite haunt, Palmyra Cove Nature Park.  I’ve been keeping track of everything that’s being seen there, and at last count, there had been 27 warbler species at Palmyra.  Of those, I’ve seen 18 of them:

Northern Parula,  Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Black Throated Green, Cape May, Tennessee, Yellow-rumped, Black-and-White, Canada, Nashville, Pine, Palm (Eastern and Western sub-species), Blackpoll and Bay-breasted Warblers, Common Yellowthroat and American Redstart.

Six of those are new to me (well, I had a tentative Blackpoll before), and 10 of them were my first pictures of the species (and it’s all about the pictures).  You can check out all of the pictures on my Flickr account, and I’m thinking of making a poster about the “Warblers of Palmyra”.  With 27 of them, I think it could be a pretty cool poster and would give me some creative outlet at the same time.  But for now, it’s just my shots and not a whole lot of other posts until I have some time (aka MAKE some time) to write about something else.