The temperatures are still pretty warm in central Virginia, but you can certainly tell fall is on the way. The days are getting shorter and the migrants are moving through. My county total for the year is up to 177 thanks to a good morning at Wilck's Lake on Tuesday. Highlights were a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and several migrant warblers including Cape May and Blackburnian. I also saw a distant falcon that was probably a Merlin (which would be new for the year), but I just didn't see it well enough to count it.
Shorebirds are still largely absent from the year list. Despite checking a few spots that have produced peep and plovers (Semipalmated, anyway) through the years, I'm still missing such common species as Least Sandpiper in the county in 2014. There just isn't much habitat around for them, and time is growing short for finding some of these species.
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