22 September 2022
Tonight’s BirdCast Migration Forecast shows there will be intense migration from Michigan down to Mississippi and Georgia. The flocks will fan out east and west, touching southwestern Pennsylvania.
If you go birding on Friday 23 September, expect to find warblers and thrushes still passing through and an increasing variety of sparrows. Watch for the skulkers – Connecticut and mourning warblers — in late September. Perhaps you’ll see the last of the flycatchers, some of which are already considered “rare” now in eBird.
Friday’s sun and northwest wing will also encourage broad-winged hawks to migrate during the day. Keep an eye to the sky or visit a hawk watch in your area. Hawk watch locations and data are listed at hawkcount.org.
Check out the migration forecast and lots of migration tools at BirdCast.
Friday will be great day to go birding.
(photos from Wikimedia Commons, map screenshot from Birdcast; click on the captions to see the originals)
Speaking of late flycatchers, I just saw an Eastern Phoebe in a bush in our yard on Monday. And I don’t think we’ve had any hummingbirds at the feeder for the last week, so they seem to be gone already.