Fall birding
We keep a bird list, in the past it only included birds seen on days when we took bird trips of some kind, now we track every bird that we see (except for nasty birds like the House Sparrow). We can look back and see when each species last visited us. This year we haven’t seen the Robin since August 8th, last year we didn’t record any Robins in August but saw them in early migration in late September until early October.
We are starting to get our first undeniable fall migrants. We saw a Gadwall yesterday. We saw a Pied-billed Grebe the say before. Loons are now in fall plumage. Redstarts are a bird that should be visible much of the summer but it isn’t quite as common at our location as I would have expected. We had some in late Spring until early July, but they were not visible until August. We didn’t see them last year at all after our move, so we don’t know how long we will have them here.