George Clark, Ed Hack and I had a good morning along the Connecticut R between Ledyard and Kendall Station, including a few firsts for the year. Highlights: Location: Ledyard Bridge Common Merganser 2 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Tree Swallow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 15 Pine Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Location: Ompomanoosuc River - just south Canada Goose 6 Wood Duck 5 Ring-necked Duck 3 Osprey 1 Killdeer 1 Wilson's Snipe 3 Swamp Sparrow 1 Location: Ompompanoosuc River flats Green-winged Teal (American) 6 Ring-billed Gull 1 We also had a singing Brown Thrasher on Kendall Station Road, another Green-winged Teal pair in the small ponds bordering Rt 132, and a Spotted Sandpiper on the river. I took an impromptu early afternoon trip up to the intersection of Rt. 132 and Kerwin Hill Road and had the following in the shrubby fields to the north. American Kestrel 1 male Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 Brown Thrasher 1 singing Nashville Warbler 1 singing Eastern Towhee 1 singing Field Sparrow 2 singing Savannah Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 1 -- **************** Chris Rimmer Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1431 ext. 1 www.vtecostudies.org **************************************************************** 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 ****************************************************************