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George Clark, Ed Hack and I had a good morning along the Connecticut R
between Ledyard and Kendall Station, including a few firsts for the
year. Highlights:
Location: Ledyard Bridge
Common Merganser 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Tree Swallow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
Pine Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
Location: Ompomanoosuc River - just south
Canada Goose 6
Wood Duck 5
Ring-necked Duck 3
Osprey 1
Killdeer 1
Wilson's Snipe 3
Swamp Sparrow 1
Location: Ompompanoosuc River flats
Green-winged Teal (American) 6
Ring-billed Gull 1
We also had a singing Brown Thrasher on Kendall Station Road, another Green-winged Teal pair in the small ponds bordering Rt 132, and a Spotted Sandpiper on the river.
I took an impromptu early afternoon trip up to the intersection of Rt. 132 and Kerwin Hill Road and had the following in the shrubby fields to the north.
American Kestrel 1 male
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Brown Thrasher 1 singing
Nashville Warbler 1 singing
Eastern Towhee 1 singing
Field Sparrow 2 singing
Savannah Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 1
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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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