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Morning catch, 20230919.
I love it when I photograph a species of bird for the first time. This is a white eyed vireo (Vireo griseus).
"Thickets and scrubby areas seem to vibrate with the spunky song of the White-eyed Vireo every summer in the southeastern United States. From the depths of a thicket, a yellow-spectacled bird peers through, its white eye gleaming and its yellow sides shining. It forages in the understory often out of sight but sings nearly all day to let you know it's there. It spends the winter along the coast in the United States and farther south in Mexico, the Caribbean, and northern Central America." - allaboutbirds.org
I'm impressed that you live in a place that has birds. I'm more impressed that the place you live has a variety of birds.
There is a forest less than 100 meters from where I'm sitting 
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I live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and the place is nothing if not heavily wooded, but I thought about it and I can't remember any birds ever attracting my attention. The one bright moment was a couple years ago when I saw a red Cardinal in Ann Arbor, but now I need to confirm what my awareness has told me: there aren't any birds "in town"; where are they?
I really didn't notice birds that much until I retired and decided to that I needed a hobby.
The joke on that would be they weren't there, until you started paying attention, and then you "summoned" them by caring. {laughs}
So I guess I need to go out and radiate "where are all you birds" vibes.
Well 
... I do kind of summon them. I have bird feeders and a bird bath in my backyard. 
Sounds like a plan. I guess. I wonder. I would put out a feeder, hoping to attract at least hummingbirds. They sell birdseed in stores, so I guess I don't know the right people, to find out where they know the birds are.
In Berkeley, we had squirrels and crows. Here, we seem to have nothing. => ? :(
Come to think of it, I've never seen a cat since I moved here. I think it's this place ...
Used to fly through Detroit a lot, you definitely have birds in Michigan. "They" know where the birds are by sharing hotspot info, here's a public list: https://ebird.org/region/US-MI/hotspots
I'm thinking your best birds (warblers!) have migrated but they'll be back. And not just in hotspots but in backyards, esp. after a hard rain in May to bring down the migrating warblers.
Once you start seeing them, they're everywhere!