Common Yellowthroat
I am still waiting for the anticipated major influx of migrating warblers. Local pockets and individual warblers can be found, but it's not anywhere as good as in previous years at this time.
I've hiked the usual good locations for warblers, but have only found a few of them here.
Common Yellowthroat
Common Yellowthroat
Common Yellowthroat
Magnolia Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Parula
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Eastern Bluebirds - write your own caption here :-)
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird
Carolina Wrens
Carolina Wren
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Indigo Bunting
Walt Childs and I drove north and west, and saw a few interesting species at Hillandale Park.
Canada Warbler
Canada Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
American Redstart
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Brown Trasher
Northern Flicker
We made stops at Lake Shenandoah, and Pocosin Cabin and Loft Mountain on Skyline Drive, but only saw a few birds at these locations.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Towhee
Chipmunk
I arrived a little before 3 p.m. and stayed until 4 p.m. It was a good day for the hawk watch, with more than 7,000 raptors counted, but most of them were high and distant requiring wide field-of-view binoculars or spotting scopes, and I only saw a few closer hawks.
Sharp-shinned Hawks
Broad-winged Hawks
Red-tailed Hawk
I went back to the hawk watch around 4 p.m., and just before 5 p.m., a huge kettle of 2,000+ Broad-winged Hawks formed. The second photo shows some of them streaming from the kettle.
Broad-winged Hawks
Broad-winged Hawks