Fall is an excellent time to go birding in your local cemetery. If that burial ground has a pond, so much the better. Migrating birds often make use these areas, and become somewhat acclimatized to cars. Use your vehicle as a roving blind, and do no get out of  the car. One is often able to get much closer than normal to wild birds.

Hooded Merganser Flock at Forest Hill Cemetery

Black-Capped Chickadee (two different birds … apparently a favorite branch for cracking open seeds … once I figured that out I just waited till a chickadee flew into position for a photograph)