Blue-headed Vireo
I met up with Walt Childs and Huck Hutchens at the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch this morning, and we birded along the first 12 miles of the parkway, with a detour on Route 610 between mm.2 and mm. 4. It was fairly quiet most of the way, except for the northern (lower) end of the cirque near mm. 7.5. There were so many birds flitting from branch to branch that we all were looking at different birds most of the time. We saw 10 warbler species there, and our 11th warbler species of the day, a Hooded Warbler at the southern (upper) end of the cirque. We also saw three vireo species there: Blue-headed, Red-eyed, and Yellow-throated, as well a couple of Scarlet Tanagers, and a few other woodland species.
Blue-headed Vireo
Scarlet Tanager
Tennessee Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
At one point, I thought I had seen another vireo species (Warbling or Philadelphia), but after looking at the photos, I am fairly confident that it was another Tennessee Warbler.
Tennessee Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Walt reported seeing a Northern Parula there, Huck saw a Magnolia Warbler, and I got quick looks at two other warblers. The first one was a Black and White Warbler, and I got a photo of the second one. It wasn't in good focus as vegetation was in the way, but I think that with its complete white eye-ring, no wing bars, and greenish color with a dark tip on its tail, that it was a Nashville Warbler. If so, it was my 31st Virginia warbler species in 2018.
Nashville(?) Warbler
While we were warbler watching, we saw a Broad-winged Hawk and two Red-tailed Hawks, as well as a third Red-tailed Hawk (perched) as we drove back to the hawk watch.
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk