This is a habitat, location question, not a “I’m lost mentally or physically”
Started at 6:00 am -6:45. First bird was a RwBl.
In order of appearance:
CoYe…several
Am Re… several, and some good looks.
YeWa… several, good looks.
CsWa
BaWW
WaVi…several, audial.
Veer…..audial
GrCa… several, audial.
AmGo…. audial, and visual.
SwSp… …several, audial.
WiFl…… several, audial. “fitz-bew”
CedW….. 6, audial. and fly by.
MaWr…… 2 singing males, audial. Sound like a sewing machine, and/ or a fast Swamp Sp. (Marsh Wren)
WoDu…..2 F, visual.
BeKi……….2 fly over.
SoSp…..audial.
AmKestrel…(F)at the RR bridge. Must be nesting there.
ReVi……..audial
RbWo…………heard several times, close, but not able to see. (FOY). (Red-bellied Woodpecker.)
GrHe………2 flew up into a tree right next to me.
WWBl. This is the 3rd time I have seen this individual here. In/ about the cattails. Sporting white primaries on its left wing. (aka Red-w. Blackb)
ChSw…..2 fly by.
And last not not least (no pun). About 100 yards south of the RR Station (in Bradford VT)….on the open water/ cattail side, I saw a bird fly in the cattails.
Buffy brown with dark and white on it. Small crow size. Then a second one flew right behind it, got an even better look. I thought I had heard 2 on
Monday. Thanks to John Sutton for finding these Least Bitterns. My first VT ones. Had them in FL this March.
VaRa…on Monday, audial….”tick-it, tick-it”
Bradford, Vt RR Station. Easy walking, watch for trains. Great birds !! quite diverse.
BiSh