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It's Fall



Today at Lake Crabtree, Gordon Brown and I found our first AMERICAN COOT,
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS of the Fall (Gordon
actually found all three birds, to be fair).  It's definitely feeling like
Fall.

Other good sightings included a group of four BROAD-WINGED HAWKS soaring
overhead - looked like 1 adult and 3 juveniles, a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, a
*lot* of ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, SCARLET TANAGER, BLACK-THROATED BLUE
WARBLER, and a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.

RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS have been getting scarcer - they've all but
disappeared from my yard now, but I watched one do his best to royally tick
off a PALM WARBLER this morning, which made for some fine entertainment.

A *huge* flock of CHIMNEY SWIFTS moved in not long after we arrived and
swarmed over the lake - I would guess a thousand birds, ballpark, but I made
no systematic effort to count them.  That was quite cool.

Good birding,

-Sandy

-- 
Sandy Cash
Durham, NC

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