The day began with the spectacle of an immature bald eagle trying to "take" a mallard from the waters behind Wilder Dam and ended up with a very respectable 49 species seen during the Mascoma Chapter's third, May 2016 installment of "Warbler Wednesdays."

A sky of scattered clouds and a chilly, temperature reading of 39 degrees greeted the walk's fifteen participants as they set off up the Boston Lot Lake access road. As is often the case, a pair of flowering apple trees at the power line cut was filled with maddeningly elusive warblers. Just the same, good views of a Tennessee warbler and a chestnut-sided warbler were enjoyed. They were two of the eleven warbler species enjoyed by participants on the day.

The vireo family was represented by three species, red-eyed (4), blue-headed (1) and yellow-throated (2). The yellow-throated vireos were tracked down by a trio of intrepid birders who followed them deep into the woods behind the lake.

In the flycatcher family an eastern phoebe, a least flycatcher and a first of season great-crested flycatcher were observed.

A list of the day's complete counts can be found using the following eBird link: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29763275