It's really starting to feel like fall.  In addition to the cooler weather, there have been some major changes in our local bird communities. 

The peak of this year's fall songbird migration has now passed, but there are still some beautiful birds passing through. 

Eight species of thrashers nest in the United States, but only one is found east of the Mississippi River.

Melissa and I love watching the Gray Catbirds that visit our yard every summer.

Across North and South America, no family of birds has more species than the 441 species of Tyrant Flycatchers.

You're probably seeing many young European Starlings in your yard this time of year.

This little fluffball is a juvenile Green Heron. It hatched from an egg only a few weeks ago, in a stick nest built on a tree branch overhanging a shallow wetland.

Fall migration is underway, and some of the earliest migrants are shorebirds like these Least Sandpipers I found last week. 

I've been enjoying seeing a fledgling Red-bellied Woodpecker visiting my feeders during the last two weeks.

The slurred whistles of the Louisiana Waterthrush are quite loud so that other waterthrushes can hear them over the constant noise of water rushing over rocks.