Tsippers, Bug-snatchers, and Seed-crackers

Sibley-sized mushroom ball

Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
(with a cracked bill)

Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens

Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata

Blurry bathtime trio

One of the Cat Lady's cats (NDNC)

Pink-edged Sulphur Colias interior
(Or perhaps Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice)

  The air was blissfully fresh in the cemeteries this morn, and I had more stamina than those crummy hot days of recent memory. BirdCast promised big movement overnight, and it did seem like there were plenty of late migrants out and about (34 species recorded in four hours). Just three warbler species on the day, with quite a few Black-throated Blue Warblers chewping in the underbrush – all females.
  Seems most of the treetop bug-snatchers have already moved through and have been replaced by the skulky seed-crackers that all say ‘tsip’ – Chipping Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos, as well as personal FOY Fox Sparrows and Hermit Thrushes.
  The day’s biggest surprise was a Philadelphia Vireo in the northeast corner of the NDNC – seems late for the species. What else? Loads of Kinglets, and I saw my first Red Fox in a while. For some reason, I eagerly await my first American Tree Sparrow of the year. They’ll get here.

Mount-Royal Cemetery, (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery), October 5, 2019
Canada Goose- heard overhead
Turkey Vulture- 1
Merlin-1 by the Molson monument
Ring-billed Gull-1
Downy Woodpecker- 2 (1)
Hairy Woodpecker- 2 (2)
Northern Flicker- 4 (2)
Eastern Phoebe- (1 in the north woods)
Philadelphia Vireo- (1 in the northeast corner of the NDNC behind the garages)
Blue-headed Vireo-1 (4)
American Crow- 25+ (2)
Black-capped Chickadee- 8+ (10+)
White-breasted Nuthatch- 3 (1)
Red-breasted Nuthatch- (1 or 2 in the northwest corner)
Winter Wren- 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet- 2 (3)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 10+ (20+ in the north woods)
Eastern Bluebird- 2 (8+ along the western edge of NDNC)
Hermit Thrush- 5 (4)
Gray Catbird- 1 heard on Pine Hill Side
Cedar Waxwing- 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler- 3 (6 well-dispersed in scrubby bits)
Yellow-rumped Warbler- 8+ (8+)
Common Yellowthroat- 1 on Oak Ridge
Northern Cardinal- 2 (1)
Chipping Sparrow- 30+ (50+)
Song Sparrow- 4 (4)
Fox Sparrow- (2 along the western edge of NDNC)
White-crowned Sparrow- (1 first winter)
White-throated Sparrow- 30+ (20+)
Dark-eyed Junco- 20+ (12+)
American Goldfinch- 8 (20+)
House Finch- (4)