September 18th – Slowest Day Of The Fall Season

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The first Blue-headed Vireo of the season.
The first Blue-headed Vireo of the season.

What can I say…..it was just a really slow day. The change in weather can’t get here soon enough. The highlight would have to be the arrival of the first Blue-headed Vireo of the season.
A beautiful male Black-throated Blue Warbler - a species that spends its Winter in the Caribbean Islands.
A beautiful male Black-throated Blue Warbler – a species that spends its Winter in the Caribbean Islands.

Note the dull gray primary coverts (juvenile coverts that have not been moulted) next to the freshly-moulted, blue-edged secondary coverts - a clear sign that this is a young or Hatch Year (HY) bird.
Note the dull gray primary coverts (juvenile coverts that have not been moulted) next to the freshly-moulted, blue-edged secondary coverts – a clear sign that this is a young or Hatch Year (HY) bird.

Banded 11:
1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
3 Swainson’s Thrushes
1 Gray Catbird
1 Blue-headed Vireo
1 Bay-breasted Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Ovenbird
1 Common Yellowthroat

Et=T’s: 47 spp.

Atlee with a Ruby-throated Hummingbird that I had just taken out of the net. -J. Fleet
Atlee with a Ruby-throated Hummingbird that I had just taken out of the net. -J. Fleet

A lovely green Praying Mantis.....looking for the brown one we had yesterday.......
A lovely green Praying Mantis…..looking for the brown one we had yesterday…….

A field of sunflowers that Joanne passes on her way to Ruthven. -J. Fleet
A field of sunflowers that Joanne passes on her way to Ruthven. -J. Fleet

Rick

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