After  several days of unpromising weather, this morning looked good and I 
managed to get out to Ft. Bayard for a little while.  It's a nice brisk 
morning out there, and we've definitely had some movement, but the birds 
were still hard to find.  I heard a single possible snippet of a bluebird 
call, which would have been a great bird for the park, but alas, I can't be 
sure.

The best actual bird was a Catharus thrush I eventually decided had to be a 
HERMIT THRUSH, no great rarity, but only my second for the park and my first 
for the fall, when thrushes are especially scarce here.  Also had two 
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS.  There were a lot of birds moving overhead that I 
couldn't ID and that didn't stop in the park--I suspect many of them were 
Yellow-rumps.  Also another EASTERN PHOEBE, which are starting to become 
downright common here.

Jason Waanders
NW DC
jwaandersATstarpower.net