I've been a passive reader of the listserv, but Mike's post made me
decide to post some sightings belatedly.  The snag in the river is also
very near the landing beyond the parking lot for Kilowatt Field in
Wilder.  You can see it even with normal water levels. 
Last Thursday evening there were actually 6 cormorants there sunning
themselves.  I go twice a day to walk the dog and I haven't seen them
since.  That evening there was also a single loon in the area above the
dam - also gone by the next day.

Christine Fournier


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Choukas Jr. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:32 PM
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Subject: [UVB] Cormorants

A pair of cormorants were basking in the sun on a log protruding from
the
Connecticut just aboe Wilder Dam this morning.  Their crests were up, a
sight I
had never seen before.  

The log looks permanent and may only be exposed because the river is so
low aboe
the dam.  The birds were best viewed from next to the grey house on the
point
just before the boat launch.

And a winter wren was singing on the path up to the Boston Lot
reservoir.

And I'm not sure it was reported tht las Thursday, 4/19, a group of us
watched a
merlin preening herself in a tree on a lawn in front of one of the Rope
Ferry
Road houses in Hanover. 

Mike

Mike

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