Blue Ridge Parkway, VA 9/20/2023

All photos are © Marshall Faintich

I started off on Route 610 and then birded along the parkway. I heard 5 or 6 small warbler flocks, but most of the birds were deep in the ground vegetation or dense leaf cover, and I was able to identify only 5 warbler species.

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Bay-breasted Warbler

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Bay-breasted Warbler

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Blackpoll Warbler

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Black-throated Blue Warbler

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Black-throated Green Warbler

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Black-throated Green Warbler

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Tennessee Warbler

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Tennessee Warbler

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Tennessee Warbler

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Tennessee Warbler

I stopped at the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch for a couple of hours. By the time I left, more than 1,000 Broad-winged Hawks had flown through today on migration, as well as other raptors.

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Broad-winged Hawk

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Broad-winged Hawks

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Broad-winged Hawks

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Bald Eagle

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Osprey

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Bald Eagle and Broad-winged Hawk

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Broad-winged Hawk, Bald Eagle, and Sharp-shinned Hawk


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