After a seemingly endless string of sunny days we had an overcast day with occasional rain and drizzle yesterday and then the rain really came down overnight into today with heavy rain through mid morning well into the afternoon. The less than ideal weather has allowed me a little extra time to work on an upcoming program I will be hosting for the Hampshire Bird Club..."Endemic Warblers of the Caribbean"...more on that to come before the program takes place in mid October (details at the following link). To start off the third week of September I had yet another Connecticut Warbler, a very early Orange crowned Warbler and a slightly late Yellow Warbler among some 14 species of warblers....some really good stuff for sure! I was then out for hours yesterday despite the weather and although far from an epic warbler day I did have some stuff around with a total of a lucky 13 species with multiple Cape May Warblers for two days running. Today's birding was much more abbreviated with just a few short walks in between bouts of rain with just a handful of warblers. The weather now looks to return to mainly sunny conditions for the foreseeable future with just a few shower chances over the next week plus. Should be some great mornings of late fall warblers as the diversity continues to drop but the numbers ramp up briefly with the arrival of numbers of Yellow rumped Warblers and Palm Warblers.
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