Pine Warbler
Winds shifted to southerly, and that usually means a slowing down of fall migrating birds that don't want to have to fly into the wind on their long journeys south. I went up to the parkway and started birding on Route 610. It was fairly quiet.
Pine Warbler
Hooded Warbler
I got back onto the parkway at mm. 4, and stopped at the southern end of the cirque (mm. 7-1/2). It was fairy quiet as well.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Cape May Warbler
Cape May Warbler
As I was getting ready to turn around and head back, I heard a couple of warblers chirping in the dense vegetation near the curved road sign, so I took a look. There was at least one, but probably two, Wilson's Warblers. That made my 32nd warbler species photographed in 2022. There are 36 warbler species seen each year in central Virginia, and I still need Blue-winged, Connecticut, Mourning, and Prothonotary for 2022, although the likelihood of my seeing all four of them now in 2022 is pretty slim.
Wilson's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
I stopped for a while at the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch.
Broad-winged Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle
American Kestrel
American Kestrel
Cooper's Hawk
Cooper's Hawk