Good beer, Slow birds

As expected already, today was slower with birds. The weather was 'too good' for real numbers to drop in. We still had a pretty dense fog for the first three hours, which didn't deliver us many birds though. After the sun came through we had a really good round. This was at about 10.30. We had another nice Orange-crowned Warbler today. Finally, we managed to trap a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Not 1 but 2 right away! They were hanging in the net close to where I had observed them regulary the previous days. So I thought: if we'll catch Sapsucker that is the place where we will catch it, and indeed! So the numbers picked up a little later, still had a lot of recaps though. We got over a 100 birds: 128 were processed.

Totals:

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 -

Downy Woodpecker 1 -

Eastern Phoebe 3 -

Blue-headed Vireo 1 -

Blue Jay 1 -

White-breasted Nuthatch 1 -

House Wren 1 -

Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 -

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10 -

Gray-cheeked Thrush 3 -

Swainson's Thrush 3 -

Orange-crowned Warbler 1 -

Nashville Warbler 2 -

Magnolia Warbler 1 -

Cape May Warbler 1 -

Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 -

Yellow-rumped Warbler 13 -

Palm Warbler (Western) 1 -

Blackpoll Warbler 1 -

Common Yellowthroat 1 -

Eastern Towhee 1 -

Chipping Sparrow 1 -

Song Sparrow 7 -

Swamp Sparrow 3 -

White-throated Sparrow 3 -

White-crowned Sparrow 2 -

Dark-eyed Junco 1 -

Indigo Bunting  1 -

American Goldfinch 5 -

Total 75, 29 species

Cape May Warbler, after hatching-year male

Orange-crowned Warbler, after hatching-year: you see some orange crown feathers?

White-crowned Sparrow, after hatching-year

White-breasted Nuthatch, hatching year

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, hatching year unknown sex

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker #2. Hatching year male

The awesome wing of a Yellow-bellied Sapucker!

The colours of the leafs have turned in beautiful autumn colours:

Evening sunlight with the fall colours