George Clark and I got out yesterday for some Windsor County birding. A nice day with some good winter birds. The fields near the Woodstock sewage plant had the greatest diversity. Amazing views of the Snow Buntings both on the ground and swirling above. The waxwings were feeding in the parking lot of the Spooner Restaurant, where the Yellow-rumped warbler may have been, but it couldn't be confirmed. A Northern Flicker at Lake Runnemede was a nice surprise and a possible sign of spring. This morning a pair of Red-bellied Woodpeckers and a singing Brown Creeper by our Norwich home. Spencer Hardy Norwich, VT Woodstock Sewer Plant Flood Plain, Windsor, US-VT Feb 20, 2012 8:00 AM - 10:15 AM Protocol: Area 30.0 ac 27 species Canada Goose 2 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 80 Common Merganser 1 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rock Pigeon 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 10 American Crow 100 Including one sliver looking bird, with a whiter tail, relatively dark head but no black anywhere Common Raven 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Robin 10 European Starling 6 Bohemian Waxwing 100 Cedar Waxwing 12 Snow Bunting 400 Rough estimate of a continuing flock, feeding in a corn field not harvested after Irene Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Purple Finch 10 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 1 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)