It's been rainy, and we've been out of town alot, but Sept 27 we visited the Minor Clark Fish Hatchery where I hit the jackpot-

Juvenile Stilt Sandpiper, 8:43 a.m.-LIFER!!

There were several other migrating shore birds as well

juvenile White-rumped Sandpiper, 9:23 a.m.

Two nonbreeding adult and a juvenile Least Sandpiper, 9:26 a.m.

Distant pair of Pied-billed Grebes on lagoon

Distant adult Bald Eagle, circling with dueling Red-shouldered Hawks

Adult Western Palm Warbler, in trees beside fish hatchery lagoon.

First fall female Bay-breasted Warbler, 11:00 a.m.

Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper

A few days later, on our farm

10-1-09, woods near the creek, juvenile Eastern Phoebe

Oct 11, we returned to the fish hatchery

Semipalmated Plover in early morning fog

10-11-09, fog lifting from Minor Clark Fish Hatchery

Great Egret, 10:28 a.m.

Juvenile intermediate Tundra Peregrine Falcon

Distant Pied-billed Grebe, 10:43 a.m.

1rst fall Cedar Waxwing, 11:35 a.m.

First fall female Yellow-rumped Warbler

Afterward we climbed to the top of Lockeegee Rock where I lay down and waited until this female Ruby-crowned Kinglet came by, 1:39 p.m

But the weather returned to rain and we've been out of town so much since (a family reunion in Ft Wayne, work in Lexington and Louisville as extras in the Disney Secretariat movie over two weeks), I think the migration may be over