In a furious hurry to get more photos off the hard drive… The birds just kept coming, and I kept taking too many pictures. So this is a post I started a while ago, just to get the photos saved somewhere else other than on the laptop.

October 1 must have been a beautiful day at the Chicago Portage. Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers were showing up in numbers along with kinglets and some sparrows.

Early on, a Red-tailed Hawk flew overhead.

There were a few Nashville Warblers that morning, foraging in the lower vegetation.

Here’s a rather dull-looking Palm Warbler. But I was surprised to discover the bird at the top of the post which is also a Palm Warbler.

I try to capture a White-breasted Nuthatch whenever one is available.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets were on hand, if not very easy to see.

Yellow-rumped Warblers have been with us for weeks and they’re still here.

I found a Bay-breasted Warbler that day but they have all moved on by now.

And a couple more Nashville Warblers were a bit easier to see in the trees than they have been.

This may have been my first Brown Creeper of the fall.

Yet more Nashville Warblers.

You can see why I had to get rid ofd these photos, there are just too many of them. Here’s another Yellow-rumped Warbler.

Tennessee Warblers were seen rather consistently this fall as well.

We got lucky this fall with the appearance of Northern Parulas over a week or more. We don’t normally see them all that often, but the Portage appears to have been the right place at the right time.

Here are a few more photos of the Palm Warbler at the top of the post.

And a Red-shouldered Hawk flew over that morning. Possibly the same one has been hanging around ever since.

I have gotten a few good photos of White-throated Sparrows this fall, which you haven’t seen yet, but these were not among them. Maybe these aren’t so bad for the early arrivals.

White-crowned Sparrows were around for a week or two.

This was all I could get of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak that day.

And a Song Sparrow appeared briefly at a distance.

American Goldfinches are still finding plenty to eat.

So, that’s it for a roundup of October 1. I’ll be back with something a little more recent before I dive back into the archives again.