*Vermont

 

*Statewide

4.16.07

 

*VT0403.06

 

This is the Vermont Rare Bird Alert for April 16, 2007 covering the period
April 9 - 15, 2007.

 

Highlights this week include the continued presence of the EURASIAN
GREEN-WINGED TEAL in Herrick's Cove, which was first seen on 4/7 and last
observed on 4/13.  Other highlights include several sightings in Grand Isle:
a CANVASBACK on 4/8, a CASPIAN TERN on 4/9 and a SHORT-EARED OWL on 4/14.
The second reported COMMON LOON to return to Vermont was seen off Grand Isle
on 4/14.

 

The first AMERICAN BITTERNS of the season were sighted on 4/11 in North
Derby and Grand Isle.

 

Another first, a GREAT EGRET, was spotted at the Intervale marsh in
Burlington on 4/9.

 

A BLACK VULTURE was observed soaring over Williston on 4/14, headed west.

 

Reports of RUFFED GROUSE drumming have come in from all over Vermont.

 

YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS were seen in Huntington and Williston this week.
NORTHERN FLICKERS were present at Herrick's Cove, Grand Isle and Wilder.

 

The first two BLUE-HEADED VIREOS of the season were both sighted on 4/13,
one in Huntington and the other in Warren.

 

  RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, the first two seen this spring, were in Hartford on
4/10 and at the Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center in Huntington on 4/14.

 

A total of five WINTER WRENS were seen during one birder's walk around
Beaver Pond in Proctor on 4/14.

 

The YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER that has been seen intermittently throughout the
winter at a feeder in Woodstock returned on 4/14 and 4/15.  One was also
seen at the West Rutland Marsh on 4/15 along with the season's first PALM
WARBLER.

 

CHIPPING SPARROWS were observed in Orleans, Brattleboro, South Starksboro
and Danby this week.  A FIELD SPARROW was spotted in Rutland on 4/15.

 

A late-departing SNOW BUNTING was seen in East Warren on 4/10 and 4/11.

 

The Vermont Institute of Natural Science offers natural history trips,
lectures and programs.  To receive a copy of our program calendar, stop at
one of our centers, call the office during business hours at 802-359-5000 or
visit the VINS' web site at http://www.vinsweb.org
<http://www.vinsweb.org/>.

 

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sightings to the RBA via e-mail at:  [log in to unmask]  Or enter your
sightings on Vermont eBird at http://www.ebird.org/VINS/.

 

 Mary Holland

 

Chris Rimmer

 

Kent McFarland

 

Roz Renfrew

 

Vermont RBA Compilers

 

Conservation Biology Department

 

Vermont Institute of Natural Science

 

6565 Woodstock Road

 

PO Box 1281

 

Quechee, VT 05059

 

802-359-5001 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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