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About 9:45 this morning as I was driving around a curve on Campbell Flats Road heading towards its intersection with Route 132 in Norwich, VT, a male Ring-necked Pheasant with a sharply pointed tail and a red patch on the side of his head moved from the edge of the unpaved road into dense vegetation between the road and nearby Ompompanoosuc River. The bird was fairly clearly not paying any attention to a nearby sign indicating no trespassing. Although in past years I have encountered individual Ring-necks on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River in Hartland and Weathersfield, this was the first time for me in Norwich. Ring-necked Pheasants in the Upper Valley in VT seem likely to be either escapes from captivity or wandering birds derived from fall releases for hunting in New Hampshire. This morning, water levels were down at Pompy. Water birds included about 15 Canada Geese, dozens of Mallards, an American Black Duck, several Green-winged Teal, a Green Heron, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, a Lesser Yellowlegs, and a Spotted Sandpiper. For a time the two yellowleg species were together on the flats and provided nice opportunity to compare their respective body and bill sizes. A Sharp- shinned Hawk flying by was likely a migrant. George Clark Norwich, VT