Truth be told, I haven't done much in the way of birding lately. I did venture up to Lovers Leap, which is a bluff overlooking Hannibal and the Mississippi River, to check things out. Among a few expected things was this nice NORTHERN HARRIER that flew over:
The view was still nice, with the blues of the river and sky, even though the formerly green trees have shifted into brown skeletal mode with the change of the season: