Good list! Haven’t had Northern Pygmy, but get nightly calls of both Great-horneds & Saw-whets in our woods. No Golden-crowned Kinglets this Fall, so far. I keep looking, sev yrs back had a large flock of them, pass thru.

 

Brian Carrigan 

Happy Birding, Rich Rusnak 

Had to look twice to convince myself what I was observing. I watched a Black-capped Chickadee, fly-catching. Six times in a row from a backyard cottonwood tree branch. Usually, they go right for the platform sunflower seeds. 

 

Took me a bit to see what it was actually fly-catching. Turned out to be Woolly Aphids. The aphids usually appear Sept/Oct &, this AM, seeing a bunch of the fuzzy, light blue aphids flying about. Just hadn’t witnessed a chickadee fly-catching before, that I recall.

 

About the only migrants coming thru now are a handful of both YR Warblers & RC Kinglets. Also have DE Juncos & White-crowned Sparrows about. Best bird yest was a Prairie Falcon flyover. 

 

Brian Carrigan 

Blackfoot