The month of September has now come to an end and overall it was rather lackluster with below average numbers of quite a few species. I ended the month with 26 species of warblers. I attributed a lot of the low counts to an early migration season for warblers and great migration conditions for almost the entire month, which likely resulted in many birds flying by without stopping (this may explain having my best number of species I ever had for an August here, also with 26 species). I had my lowest count of Connecticut Warblers in years with just one individual for me (and just a couple others reported in the county). There are low numbers of late season lingering warblers around and now the majority of warblers around are Yellow rumped Warblers with decent numbers of Blackpoll Warblers, Palm Warblers and Common Yellowthroats plus Northern Parula (who put on a nice end of month show). Many other species seem to have already moved on. It will be tough to get a big count of species for October but I will be out trying to track down some stuff.
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