--- Daniel Hopkins wrote: The Mascoma Chapeter of NH Audubon hosted the last in our series of bird walks to Boston Lot Lake today. Another beautiful morning with our 15 participants seeing or hearing 39 species. Highlights included great looks at a singing Towhee, Blackburnian Warbler, Northern Parula, and a family of Canada Geese with 6 goslings. [...] Canada Goose 2 Mallard 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 1 Common Raven 1 Tree Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Brown Creeper 1 Veery 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Parula 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Ovenbird 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Scarlet Tanager 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 1 --- end of quote --- I walked up to Boston Lot Lake Monday morning and found almost the identical list of species: I did not find Brown Creeper, Broad-winged Hawk, or Common Raven, but I had a singing Indigo Bunting near the power lines where the towhee was singing, a Wood Thrush a little farther up the trail, three Spotted Sandpipers at the lake foraging among the rocks, and an Eastern Phoebe. David Webb Hanover **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************