Four Phillies, Pecker-dodge, and a ‘Ckoo

The cemetery boys

Bonnie blue skies

Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia

Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina

Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina

Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens

Lincoln’s Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii

Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis

Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus

Pileated Woodpecker dodging a slab of tree...that's some Matrix action right there

  I’ll hafta start an indie band named the title of this post.
 Guess today was my last cemeteries session until the Fox Sparrows return. The action started slow in NDN in the crisp and earlies, but picked up when I heard a cuckoo calling from the exact same spot as the Yellow-billed Cuckoo from a few months back (https://snowyowllost.blogspot.com/2018/05/yellow-billed-cuckoo.html). Sounded like that bird...but also didn’t. Sadly there were no Northern Cardinals to give me an assist this time, and the bird was not seen.
  I almost got a great video of a Pileated Woodpecker squashing itself with an ill-advised peck – watch for it in the first millisecond of the clip.
  Ended up with a decent 46-ish species, including an outrageous four Philadelphia Vireos. Four! Outrageous. Otherwise, lots of the usual autumnal suspects, like Swainson’s Thrushes, Dark-eyed Juncos, Chipping and White-throated Sparrows, and Winter Wrens.
  What else? Ran into the cemetery boys (Jean-Sebastien Mayer and Louis Lemay), and picked up some respectable warbler waves with them. I had a warbler tale to tell, but now too tired – my legs'n'feets are well and thoroughly thrashed.

Mount-Royal Cemetery, (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery + Université de Montréal woods), September 24, 2018
Double-crested Cormorant-(3 circling rather aimlessly over the NW corner of NDN)
Canada Goose-195+ throughout the day, (65)
Sharp-shinned Hawk-(1)
Cooper’s Hawk-2 (1)
Merlin-1 at Oak Ridge
Ring-billed Gull-1
Cuckoo sp.-(1 heard from the UdeM woods...couldn’t say what colour its bill may have been hued)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-1 on Mountain View, 2 on Pine Hill Side
Downy Woodpecker-2 (2)
Hairy Woodpecker-2 (1)
Northern Flicker-7+ (3)
Pileated Woodpecker-1 (1)
Empid sp.-(1 young-looking bird, looked good for Least Flycatcher)
Philadelphia Vireo-(2 dueling in NDN, 2 in the UdeM woods – I’ve only ever seen them one at a time!)
Blue-headed Vireo-1 on Mountain View
Blue Jay-2 (1)
American Crow-4 (2)
Common Raven-2 (1)
Black-capped Chickadee-15+ (10+)
Brown Creeper-(1)
White-breasted Nuthatch-2 (1)
Red-breasted Nuthatch-2 (4)
Winter Wren-4 well-scattered throughout, (2)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet-3 (2)
Eastern Bluebird-(3 being hounded by Chipping Sparrows)
Swainson’s Thrush-12+ (8+)
Gray-cheeked Thrush-(1 possible in the UdeM woods)
Hermit Thrush-2 (1)
Gray Catbird-1
Cedar Waxwing-(2+ heard)
Tennessee Warbler-1 in N2, (1 in the UdeM woods)
Nashville Warbler-(3 in the UdeM woods)
Magnolia Warbler-4 (6)
Cape May Warbler-1 in A4 that had me thinking Prairie Warbler for a moment...
Black-throated Blue Warbler-2 (2)
Black-throated Green Warbler-1 bright male, (1)
Common Yellowthroat-(1 in the UdeM woods, 1 in the ‘Lincoln’s Sparrow scrub’ by the NDN north field)
Wilson’s Warbler-1 male in N2
Northern Cardinal-4 (1)
Chipping Sparrow-100+ (100+)
Song Sparrow-3 (2)
Lincoln’s Sparrow-(1 in the ‘Lincoln’s Sparrow scrub’ by the NDN north field)
White-crowned Sparrow-(1 near Decelles)
White-throated Sparrow-40+ (30+)
Dark-eyed Junco-15+ (10+)
American Goldfinch-1