This could be a column just about the interesting birds seen in Aquinnah this week.

This week is fairly quiet compared to the multiple unusual sightings from last week.

Autumn is the season for finding species that stray outside of their normal ranges.

It's about time the southbound migrant songbirds showed up!

Southbound warblers and other insect-eating birds are supposed to be peaking about now.

Shorebirds come in many sizes and shapes.

I associate the arrival of a northern waterthrush with the start of the southward songbird migration.

An estimated 2,800 birds were migrating over the Vineyard on the night of August 14, with a peak of 800 birds flying at dawn on August 15.

Mourning doves are seldom mentioned in this column because they are common.

In late July adult shorebirds that nested successfully arrive, having left their fledglings alone on the Arctic tundra.