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One of my "holy grail" birds for this fall - Orange-crowned Warbler -
finally obliged me this morning. While my car underwent a brake job at
Merchand Brothers Garage, just south of the Upper Valley Aquatic Center
on Rt. 5, I took a walk down Melisi Road and connected to the fire
access road that skirts the south side of the pond (of White-winged Tern
fame in June 1987), then worked the cattail-shrub swamp along Rt. 5.
Landbirds were hopping, and diversity surprisingly good. A scolding
Carolina Wren in the shrub swamp had me fooled for a moment, thinking it
was a Marsh Wren...
Highlights:
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Merlin 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Carolina Wren 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 1
Hermit Thrush 2
Gray Catbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 10
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 observed carefully at close range for 3-4 minutes as it foraged in understory shrubs with a Nashville Warbler
Nashville Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 4
Palm Warbler (Western) 4
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 12
Song Sparrow 22
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 9
White-throated Sparrow 36 likely undercounted; a large flock of >25 birds along Melisi Road
White-crowned Sparrow (Eastern) 1
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Purple Finch 11
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20072092
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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
www.vtecostudies.org
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