I started my walk to class on this first day of the fall semester finding this window-killed Yellow Warbler at the Food and Agricultural Product building.
After class, I ran my normal survey, finding this Ruby-throated Hummingbird (HY male with fat = 1) at the southwest alcove.
I actually discovered it on my 8/20 survey, but this poor little bird on the 20th was already seething with maggots so I’m comfortable calling it an 8/19 casualty. This was a second year male. Check out the feather wear on his primaries. He was headed south to molt and then continue on further south.
Waterthrushes seething with maggots (ew), but still where I left them.
