I conducted my annual Forest Bird Monitoring Program census at Roy 
Mountain WMA in Barnet this morning.  It's really an impressive, magical 
place - a lowland cedar-fir swamp, with some monstrous green ash.  I 
don't know of another site quite like it in VT, though there are 
doubtless a few.  It is virtually untrammeled, with very few signs that 
anyone ever penetrates the forest.  The breeding bird community is quite 
"eclectic", if that word can be applied...

I highly recommend a visit there, though navigating the deadfalls, 
hummocks, and sinkholes is tricky.

Today's list:

Ruffed Grouse  3     female and at least 2 chicks capable of short flight
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  6     singing
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Blue-headed Vireo  1     singing
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  1
Common Raven  1
Black-capped Chickadee  7
Red-breasted Nuthatch  8     two family groups
Brown Creeper  1     singing
Winter Wren  7     6 singing
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2     singing
Veery  1     calling
American Robin  2     singing
Ovenbird  3     singing in adjacent mixed forest
Northern Waterthrush  3     singing
Nashville Warbler  3     singing
Common Yellowthroat  2     singing
Northern Parula  3     singing
Magnolia Warbler  1     singing
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1     singing
Black-throated Green Warbler  1     singing
Canada Warbler  7     singing
Song Sparrow  1     singing in adjacent shrubby wetland
White-throated Sparrow  6      singing
Dark-eyed Junco  2     singing
Scarlet Tanager  1     singing
Purple Finch  2     singing
Evening Grosbeak  1     calling in flight

View this checklist online at 
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18839814

-- 
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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