Not much time to bird today, but during dinner something caught my 
attention under one of our feeders. No wonder... it was a Rusty 
Blackbird, my first for Norwich and a new 2010 species for the Norwich 
Bird Quest.

A few other highlights shown below, including white-crowned sparrows.

Spencer & Doug Hardy, Norwich

Nashville Warbler - Vermivora ruficapilla     1
Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens     1
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia     6
White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis     4     all tan striped
White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys     2     "western taiga" unmarked lores
Rusty Blackbird - Euphagus carolinus     1     non-breeding plumage, under feeder eating cracked corn
   <http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/doug/orn/22sep10_rusty.jpg>
   photo not bad, considering time (6:22pm) and shutter speed (1/6 sec) at 300mm...

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

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