I had a late start this morning, and did not arrive at the trail until 9:30. We had a light frost over night, and the temperature was still in the upper 30s when I arrived. I parked at the Rockfish River kiosk, and saw our resident, juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk perched high up in a tree beyond the fenced upstream trail fields. I headed downstream, and then took the Glenthorne Loop trail to the bog area, and then back to the parking lot. I was surprised to see an Indigo Bunting in Yellow Bird thicket, as I thought that this species had already migrated south for the winter. This hike loop took 30 minutes, and I had 20 species, including a good look at a Vesper Sparrow.

Red-shouldered Hawk