This morning's overall highlight was discovering that ice on the 
Connecticut River's main channel had gone out overnight.  Canada Geese 
and Mallards were scattered from Ledyard Bridge up to Kendall Station, 
and a single drake Ring-necked Duck was at Kendall.

Highlights at Campbell Flats were a singing Eastern Bluebird, 2 singing 
Fox Sparrows, and a non-vocal Swamp Sparrow.

At the Coop fields in Norwich, a male woodcock strutted his stuff at 
dusk, peenting and displaying in courtship flight, in the unmowed patch 
adjacent to the brushy wetland just north of the community garden.  This 
has been a reliable spot to witness the display in recent years.

Chris

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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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