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This morning I intended to take a brief but brisk bike ride through the hills
in Norwich before sitting down to a day's indoor (unfortunately) work. However,
the ride proved to be neither brief nor brisk, as I was brought up short every
few feet by bird song. Highlights included:
* A singing Louisiana Waterthrush near the bottom of Bragg Hill (in the same spot
where I've heard waterthrushes in past years)
* Two singing Savannah Sparrows
* A Broad-winged Hawk on Hopson Road (to whose presence overhead I was alerted
by its plaintive cry)
* Nothern Mockingbird (atop Bragg Hill, at the same spot where I saw one last
week)
* Two beautiful singing Baltimore Orioles
* Black-throated Blue Warbler
* Singing Bobolink (this is a little earlier than I usually see them)
* Singing Brown Creeper heard on the descent along Beaver Meadow
* Great look at a low flyover of a Sharp-shinned Hawk (which, like the Broad-winged,
I would never have seen from the bike if it had not been vocalizing)
* Two Least Flycatchers
* A pair of Eastern Bluebirds
In addition, many birds that I had expected to see/hear on yesterday's outing
but didn't were out in force today: there were Gray Catbirds everywhere, several
Warbling Vireos, Chestnut-sided Warblers, Black-throated Greens, a singing Northern
Parula, etc.
It was a glorious morning to be out, even if I didn't get much exercise!
David Webb
Hanover
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