The Coop fields were truly hopping this morning, with numbers and 
diversity of birds greater than I've ever had there before.  My usual 
15-20 minute saunter turned into more than an hour!  Although birds were 
in the garden itself and weedy edge along its southern edge, many were 
in wet thickets to the north and around the small pond by the Racquet 
Club.  I wandered a bit further than usual and discovered a sparrow-rich 
spot in the NE corner of the soccer fields.  It appears to be a large 
soil mound that is now covered in dense weedy growth.  Definitely worth 
checking on a regular basis.

I looked hard for an Orange-crowned Warbler to no avail.  If there was 
ever a day for one to be there, this would have been it!  A dull 
Nashville Warbler had me fooled for a second...

Highlights among the 26 species I found:

Route 5 Coop fields, Windsor, US-VT
Oct 5, 2012 8:15 AM - 9:25 AM

Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Phoebe  4
Blue-headed Vireo  2     1 singing
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Gray Catbird  4
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  4
Palm Warbler  6     3 eastern, 3 western subspecies
Yellow-rumped Warbler  15
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  25
Lincoln's Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  30
White-crowned Sparrow  10     1 singing
Red-winged Blackbird  1
Purple Finch  2
Pine Siskin  1     calling overhead

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)

-- 
Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
http://www.vtecostudies.org