Mount Royal Cemetery, August 22, 2026

Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca

Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca

Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens

Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus

Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi

Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens

Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea

Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus

Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica

Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes

Looked like a hand coming up from the great below

They for sure keep all the haunted shit behind that door

Mount Royal Cemetery, August 22, 2026

-An early morning go-around of the cem with George and Harry

-It’s already full-on fall migration, which caught me off guard

-It was flycatchery! Single Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, and Eastern Wood-Pewee all encountered.

-Massive churning kettle of Chimney Swift (35+) up top

-Baltimore Oriole heard

-Indigo Bunting

-39 species in 2.5 hours

-‘Go-in-the-eye-bugs’ were out

-->9 warbler species:

-Yellow Warbler – 1

-Bay-breasted Warbler – 12+

-Black-throated Blue Warbler – 2 skulky males

-Chestnut-sided Warbler – 2

-Black-and-white Warbler – 1

-Magnolia Warbler – 2

-American Redstart – 1 female

-Cape May Warbler – 2

-Blackburnian Warbler – 2

August 24, Lasalle

-In a scrubby micro park near the water, plenty of Bay-breasted Warblers (10), single Nashville and Tennessee Warblers, as well as American Redstart, some REVIs, and Cedar Waxwings about.