Fall Migration: What are you seeing?

It's still searingly hot here in the Sonoran desert, but I hope to check out the local STP soon for sandpipers, dowitchers, etc.

Canadian Geese in formation! beautiful

Canada Geese in the Ponds around DC. :>
Oh, and other flocks too far up to indentify...

Here is most of what I saw on my outing today...

Killdeer
Sora
Semipalmated Plover
Least Sandpiper
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Canada Goose
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Red-tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Turkey Vulture
American White Pelican
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Double-crested Cormorant
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
American Redstart
Black and White Warbler
Red-eyed Vireo
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Wood Pewee
Eastern Pheobe
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Chimney Swift
Tree Swallow
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Carolina Chickadee

These were seen at three sites all within 75 miles of St. Louis, MO. I saw several other warblers although I can't be sure on their ID due to my inexperience with those damn-difficult fall plumages.

I do believe that migration is in full swing!

oh, that sounds like so much fun. I saw some bald eagles on Orcas Island, in the San Juan islands of Washington State.

I saw a Bay-breasted Warbler today, luckily a male who still had a lot of bay on his chest and wingpits so not too tricky to id.

Other migrants observed over the past week:

Wood Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Baltimore Oriole
Gray Catbird
and American Robins by the boatload

Plus a lot of birds that I expect will stay the winter:
tons of Cardinals
tons of Blue Jays
Northern Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
White-throated Sparrow
Carolina Wren

I had 518 hawks at Lighthouse Point Park (New Haven, CT) yesterday, staring into the intense blue sky for 9 1/2 hours, on a granite dust "hill" (20 feet above sea level). I can't think of anything more pleasurable than spending time at our local "Cape May".

Yesterday there was an immature Great Egret at the lake in Prospect Park. They're not uncommon birds, but usually I have to go to them rather than having them come to me!

Also had an American Wigeon and a handful of warblers, and the Northern Shovelers and Ruddy Ducks are back.

Black-throated Gray and Wilson's Warblers in the courtyard at work yesterday. 46 species, including a lifer (Black Skimmer), at Bolsa Chica wetlands in Orange County, where the ducks are only just starting to show up (a handful of Northern Pintail and the resident Ruddies).

I saw a lovely immature bald eagle yesterday, obviously hunting. I think he decided my dogs were too big.

I'm such a dork.... not a Great Egret, Great Cormorant. Great Egrets seem to have left for the year at Prospect Park.

I drove from Billings MT to Bozeman MT and return, and all I saw were dozens of magpies feasting on roadkill, Canada geese in a pond, and a few crows in the trees.

Of course in my backyard I noticed blue jays, grackles, mourning doves and house finches

Observed today at my local Sonoran desert sewage treatment ponds:

2 white-fronted geese
1 hybrid Ross's/snow goose
mallards
American coots
green-winged teal
American wigeons
northern pintails
northern shovelers
redhead
ring-necked ducks
ruddy ducks
spotted sandpiper
least sandpipers
American kestrel
peregrine falcon
great-tailed grackles (non-migratory)
western kingbird

I saw hundreds of Sandhill Cranes this past Saturday (Oct. 13) in north central Indiana. They stop here during their migration every year.

I have never seen so many birds in one place.

There are some video and audio files of the congregation here.

Okay, I saw Juncos hanging around already! I hope these guys were just passing through, because I usually don't see them until January!

We're having an obscenely warm Fall anyway. I wonder how this affects migration. Don't birds usually rely on the length of daylight more than temperatures for their signal? Or don't we know the triggers yet?

A sizeable flock of Brewer's sparrows and a few white-crowned sparrows returned to my yard last week.

i mentioned this on some other page at this site.

We have a pair & a half of golden eagles that come to a certai bend in the river late october every year and stay for no more than 3, maybe 4 weeks. I got over to see one of them he flew towrds me until he was so close he was all i could see in my binoculars,

then banked and scooped away, turning up river for a quarter mile or so.

like an old friend who comes back every homecoming dance.

Tropicsama, if u r group founder, y not change the title to "Migrating Season by Season" or simply "Migration Journal"? Or is Fall the only season you have access to the web?

I am afraid it is Winter now but this sub-freezing morning in North Central Florida, as I lay in bed late (7:45 AM), I hear minutes apart two short bursts of crane histeria, that whirley gobliny sound, but there were few enough of them to hear the individual voices more clearly than usual and perhaps because of that the pileated wood-pecker answered with what might have been his first morning call! (I know this is a terribly specific request, but I am curious if anyone has taken careful note how birds respond to the calls of other species, and that includes further removed insects.). And note that said woodpecker's closest relative in sound is not a bird but the chiming cicada (a cross between musical chimes and a mimic of the doppler effect) of japan = higurashi.

And, Tim, I dropped by your profile because of something you wrote re explanations that made chinese look primitive but saw no place to write a note. I found the 24-7 open-eyed maiden poem and the wolf who, like a cat . . . let's just say at odds. Q for bird people: what do birds think about eye contact? Is there any of the great variation forund in mammals? Or are they never shy?

"Q for bird people: what do birds think about eye contact? Is there any of the great variation forund in mammals? Or are they never shy?"

Good question, keigu.
I have kept birds (mostly parrots) for nearly 20 years. One thing I know to be true is a bird who will open wide-eyed and dilate it's pupils back and forth truly trusts the one it is looking at (often looking directly in the eye). I have never seen this behavior with strangers or people the birds don't know as well.