Highlights of a morning ramble around the Woodstock floodplain fields behind the sewage plant, with Kyle Jones, Spencer and Dog Hardy, and Kent McFarland. A great raptor show, with several interactions between species, and surprising numbers of sparrows for late August. Despite last night's cool northwest air flow, there appeared to be no influx of true migrants. We had 41 species total, which included only 2 warblers. Chris Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 3 Broad-winged Hawk 3 Merlin 1 Warbling Vireo 1 singing Red-eyed Vireo 2 singing Common Yellowthroat 7 Yellow Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 30 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 40 probably undercounted; many flying from weedy patches into corn Song Sparrow 28 White-throated Sparrow 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 12 most birds observed in first basic/female plumage; some only heard Bobolink 24 all in basic plumage View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19604605 -- 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 ****************************************************************