Signs of Autumn (Post Them Here)

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Blue Jays noisily flocking, Monarchs floating southward, crows gathering at dusk into their autumnal communal roosts.

Canada Geese overhead.

A Nashville Warbler hopping around in the bushes.

Leaves crunching underfoot when I take my dog for a walk
Lots of squirrels out
A group of seagulls, which I don't usually see around here (presumably they're migrating)
Cold front moving in tonight
It's now dark at the start of my horseback riding lesson (7 PM)

I made that mistake too, the first few times I saw this thread title

The little Swamp Maples are at peak scarlet. They're always the first to go.

Oh God, how cute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_RZZoREC4 -- Tom Rush, "Urge for Going", to me the definitive song of fall.

Some of the trees here just dropped their leaves without a show.Most are still green,a few are golden.
First geese overhead,white throated sparrows have arrived,maybe a light frost later in the week.Time to think about bringing the house plants in and getting in the last of the vegetables from the garden.Muscadines are ripe and it's time to pick up black walnuts.The Poneapple sage is in full bloom,a brilliant scarlet.My antique cascading mums are simply amazing,puts the modern mums to shame.
I was too late for the Home Depot 75% off plant sale. They moved it up for some reason.All they had left were a few roses.They were BOGO so I brought home two.Knock Out Sunny,which is fragrant and yellow and Miracle on the Hudson,single red.It has lots of hips on it.Good for tea and the birds like them.
Someone arriving to clean the flue out today,I'll need a fire later this week.

Starting to get more autumnal temperatures here.
I'm seeing more and more Halloween decorations around the neighborhood every day.
Not a sign of autumn specifically, but of different weather - when I was taking my dog for a walk the other day, instead of being upset that he didn't get to chase the bunnies, he was upset that he didn't get to play with the toad.

Killing frost tonight.Picked all the tomatoes,peppers and zinnias I could salvage before the frozen wasteland of tomorrow morning.Got a nice fire going.Feels snug as a bug in a rug.

You must be up at a pretty high elevation.

Freeze watch in effect tonight and tomorrow night.
My dog's fur is full of static electricity - I get a little shock when I pet him.

First bench up from the river.Not sure if that term is used elsewhere,but bench land is flat land on the side of the mountain.It's a frost pocket,the cold settles down into the valley on still nights.
All that's left blooming now are the mums.
Coleus,zinnia,marigold etc...all melted.
It's didn't get as cold as they said,just enough to kill the plants.No skim ice on the lilly ponds.
The colors are not very good this year,so far.The stag horn sumac just dropped its leaves instead of being a blaze of crimson for weeks.

The number of leaves stuck to my cat's 'trousers' (she's very fluffy) has steadily increased throughout October, though I expect it will go down to nothing once frost sets in. Sometimes I feel like making a completely useless line graph depicting how the number of leaves she brings in varies over the whole year, but thankfully I've yet to go that far.

Poison Ivy at peak color.

Just as pretty and doesn't itch (I love maples when they haven't completely turned yet).