At 9:00 am and still at 10 this morning, a single Pectoral Sandpiper was
roosting, and occasionally foraging, in the small area of flooded field
directly across Rt. 132 from Pompy Flats by the I-91 bridge, just west
of the ditch that runs N-S from the road. George Clark, Ed Hack and I
all had great looks through spotting scopes.
There was reasonable fall-out today, though not quite as hoped. At
Campbell Flats, before the rain shut things down, there was a Solitary
Sandpiper foraging in the flooded and recently mowed field just west of
the ditch. A Merlin cruised by, and landbirds of note included 12
Red-eyed Vireos, a Least Flycatcher, a R-t Hummingbird, 3 Northern
Parulas, 4 B-t Green Warblers, an Ovenbird, 2 Scarlet tanagers, 12
Indigo Buntings, and 2 Savannah Sparrows.
Chris
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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-8281 ext. 1
www.vtecostudies.org
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