After mentioning the lack of summer warblers in our yard in my post relating to August 12, yesterday I spent a few hours in the yard after having been alerted to the presence of an Orange-crowned warbler.  Due to the lack of warblers this summer, I was very excited to finally be seeing another warbler in the yard, even if it was the more common Orange-crowned.

The Orange-crowned warbler set off a ground-swell of fall visitors which I’ll share with you.  During my time in the yard we had a fly-over from a Turkey vulture, a migrant which was here this summer but will be leaving in the next month or two to migrate south for the winter.

We had multiple visits from both male (top) and either female or juvenile (bottom) Wilson’s warblers, which I consider the most common warbler to visit our yard.

We also hade a Bewick’s wren visit the yard.  We had a breeding pair in the yard for much of the summer but they haven’t been showing themselves for the past several weeks.  This one landed on a perch that made photography difficult, but I managed a couple of photos.

After being worried about the local California quail population for much of the summer, we are now overrun with several coveys of different sizes.  Here’s a photo of one of the adult males followed by a photo of one of the almost-grown juveniles.

And finally, our star visitor for the day… a Warbling vireo.  If we’re lucky we manage about one of these a year.  Since we saw this one so early in the migration maybe I can hope for another!