For about 3 hours this morning (May 16), starting at 7 AM, nine  
participants joined on a bird walk organized for the Milton Frye  
Nature Area Committee of Norwich. A partial tour of the 35 acre  
Norwich nature area yielded about 26 species, most of which, if not  
all, might nest on, or adjacent to, that tract. The birding group then  
went north to the Pompy area, continued north on Norwich's Hogback  
Road onto Thetford's Godfrey Road, eventually returning to the nature  
area via Union Village Road in Norwich. The total of species for the  
entire trip was 53. Eleven warbler species were found.

Some highlights included:

a Ruby-throated Hummingbird and a mature male American Redstart at the  
Norwich nature area:

a Killdeer and a Spotted Sandpiper at Pompy:

a Savannah Sparrow, several Bobolinks, a Magnolia Warbler, and an  
Indigo Bunting along Hogback Road;

a Field Sparrow singing along Union Village Road in Norwich.

One mature Red-tailed Hawk was seen near Pompy and another along  
Godfrey Road.


George

George Clark
Norwich, VT

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