Birding twice in two consecutive days... is life good, or what?
The highlights today, during a couple hours in rapidly changing weather:

   1. perhaps the brightest, sharpest yellow-rump we've ever seen. It
      was in shrubby vegetation along the railroad tracks across from
      the gravel pit on Rt. 5 North in Norwich, accompanied by a
      ruby-crowned kinglet and chickadees. In the same area we found a
      likely palm warbler... but our ~90% confidence isn't good enough
      to record it. Maybe a five percent chance each that it was a pine
      or yellow warbler.
   2. a prolonged view of an immature harrier flying low over vegetation
      along the river, one of 5 raptors seen this afternoon.

Doug & Spencer Hardy
Norwich

Location:     Seltered bay on CT river
Observation date:     4/18/10

Canada Goose     40
Ring-necked Duck     2
Turkey Vulture     1
Northern Harrier     1
American Kestrel     1
American Crow     5
Common Raven     1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     2  <MyEBird?cmd=speciesList&listType=US-VT-027&listCategory=allCounties&time=life&sppCode=nrwswa>
Black-capped Chickadee     4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     1
Pine Warbler     1
Song Sparrow     4
Red-winged Blackbird     10
Brown-headed Cowbird     2


Location:     Ledyard Bridge Area- CT River, Norwich
Observation date:     4/18/10

Osprey     1 (migrating, high... quick call by Spencer)
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Rock Pigeon     1
Eastern Phoebe     2
American Crow     10
Black-capped Chickadee     4
Red-breasted Nuthatch     1
Pine Warbler     4
Song Sparrow     4
Common Grackle     3
House Finch     1

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)



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