A great front of birds flying south on a chill wind swept into Brooklyn on Tuesday morning to be greeted by an orange-red sun rising in the smoke haze wafted here from the west’s conflagrations.
Mature male American Redstart.
Female and juvenile male Redstarts out-numbered the old males by far and were simply falling out of trees everywhere in Green-Wood.
Chestnut-sided Warbler.
Scarlet Tanager.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

Northern Parula.
Black-throated Blue male.

Tennessee Warbler. Never captured one of these in photos before.

Lincoln’s Sparrow.

Common Yellowthroat.
Meanwhile, on the other side of this climate-changed continent: a mass die-off of migrating birds across the southwest.
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