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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