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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius |
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| Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius |
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| Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe |
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| White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis |
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| find the Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia |
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| American Robin Turdus migratorius |
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| Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla |
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| Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum |
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| Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum |
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| Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata |
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| Canada Goose Branta canadensis |
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| Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice |
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| Geese over Sherbrooke, NDG, Oct 6 |
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| Partial lunar eclipse from way back in late August |
NDG, October 3, 2026
-It’s been ages since I’ve checked out my patch in NDG, so I dragged myself out there for a taste of early morning autumnal migration.-Sunny and crisp (could see my breath, and gloves were needed but not necessarily packed).
-Left with a stiff warbler neck, with plenty of drab fast-movers up high.
-Respectable warbler trickle: single digit number of Nashville, Tennessee, Cape May, and maybe a Blackburnian (late?). I'd forgotten how confounding fall warblers were.
-I went into statue mode in a small woods, and after a few minutes a jawbreaker-sized Winter Wren bounded up through the underbrush and tisked past me at such close range my camera was useless, and I could have booped on the beak, but of course I didn’t.
-Two skulky and chattery Brown Thrashers were an unexpected treat, found in the same spot as a single bird in April 2025.
-6+ Blue-headed Vireos, active, vocal, and scrappy.
-Ruby-crowned Kinglets flitting up high throughout the walk.
-Several Pine Siskins overhead.
-Eastern Bluebird heard in two different locations, possibly the same bird on the move. Have had them at this location a few times, on migration only.
-An Eastern Phoebe still hanging around.
-I was hoping for a White-crowned Sparrow, after randomly seeing one through the back window at work the previous day. No such luck, but there were sparrows out in force. The scrub edges were absolutely littered with White-throated Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos (~40-50 of each).
-30 species in 2.5 hours.
