Hooded Warbler
I met up with Huck Hutchins on Route 610, and we birded a bit there and on the parkway, but it was really quiet.
Hooded Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Carolina Chickadee
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Raccoon
I visited the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch for a while, but it was fairly quiet there as well.
Red-tailed Hawks doing aerial maneuvers
We did step on a lot of invasive Lantern Flies.
Lantern Fly
Tink Moyer and I did some late morning birding up on the parkway. As the day before, the parkway was quiet, but we did get some avian activity on Route 610 close to noon. Tink saw a Northern Parula, and then a bit farther north, we encountered a mixed flock that was high in the trees and a good distance from the road.
Red-eyed Vireo
Blackburnian Warbler
An immature warbler was begging for food from the Blackburnian, but the young bird was a Bay-breasted Warbler!
Blackburnian and Bay-breasted Warblers
Blackburnian and Bay-breasted Warblers
Bay-breasted Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
American Redstart
I got a couple of photos of a warbler(?)-sized bird that has yellowish undertail coverts and long, dark undertail feathers. If it were a warbler, the only possibilities are Common Yellowthroat, Wilson's, and Nashville. But the second photo shows dark legs, so the first two are ruled out, leaving Nashville. But I am not sure if it has a warbler bill, and Scarlet Tanager is a possibility.
Nashville Warbler or Scarlet Tanager
Just north of the old tower, we found a first fall, female Black-throated Blue Warbler. It was most likely the same bird I saw there a few days earlier.
First fall, female Black-throated Blue Warbler
Last stop was at the hawk watch where I got some close-up photos of a Broad-winged Hawk and a distant photo of a Sharp-shinned Hawk.
Broad-winged Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
It had rained overnight and in the early morning, and more rain was forecasted for early afternoon. I headed up to Rockfish Gap under dark gray skies, as more than 5,000 hawks had flown through there yesterday. I also birded a bit on the parkway and Route 610, but it was really windy on the parkway, and fairly quiet on 610.
Bay-breasted Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Black and White Warbler
The only raptor of note that I saw at the hawkwatch, during my two brief stops there, was an immature Bald Eagle.
Bald Eagle
I got a couple of photos of a warbler flying past the hawk watch. My best guess is that it was a Cape May.
Cape May(?) Warbler