Mid-Summer Nights Dream

So this is it...the fall migration is full on. The sun is setting noticably earlier, at night there's almost a chill in the air. The monarchs are running. Here's what I see in the city's parks.
















Gentrified!
Umm yeah, let me add a few more pix!







What's up butterfly lovers...can you name them all?

Black Skimmer?

Fall Migrants Begin

There were tons more of fall warblers moving through the area. For some reason, I found lots of females including yellow rumped, magnolias and black-throated greens. I also saw a red-tailed hawk and peregine falcon, but was too slow to get any pix of them as they streaked by. Walking through the foliage, I heard the many shrieks of yellow shafted flickers. At one point I watched as one flew into a tree and snagged a screeching cicada. As always, many resident pairs of American Kesrels thrive along the cities parks. There seems to be another pair in the 145th and Broadway area and I regularly see this male near Riverside Park. Bruce Yolton has also reported seeing a female kestrel there this spring. Anyone else see kestrels in that area, please let me know.

Where the Bird Are