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September arrived with autumn weather and the late summer doings in the world of birds are coming to an end. Just before the first autumn storm skylarks, wagtails, fieldfares, yellowhammers and greenfinches were most noticeable in the landscape around Tallinn, seeing to numbers, and particularly the greenfinches with at least 300 individuals in the largest flock. Starlings and barn swallows in contrast were unexpectedly few. In the trees mixed flocks of tits were moving around and in the conifer woods goldcrests. Here and there nutcrackers made themselves heard. Occasionally we managed to hear the calling or a snatch of song from a robin or a chiff-chaff or willow warbler. Many  passerines – such as the nightingale, various warblers, whitethroats and others – have of course already left.