My son Spencer did the Birdathon yesterday, as he had a Track meet on 
Saturday. It was a long day with a few fun surprises, memorable looks at 
a few, and especially interesting in what we did not see! We stayed 
entirely within Norwich, but this year brought a car along.

Species highlights included the Crane and Night-heron mentioned 
yesterday (crane not present at ~2pm; heron still there at 6:30pm), and 
as noted below.

Warblers were generally in short supply, in overall numbers and number 
of species. Spencer has been working to learn songs, yet getting only 12 
species yesterday must be his lowest Birdathon total in 4-5 years of 
doing them. We also saw relatively few swallows, and NO raptors other 
than 1 lone TV. We saw no pileateds, yet 3 flickers. And despite 
searching, we missed Kingfisher and Great Blue Heron...

All in all, I can't imagine a nicer way to spend a day!
Doug Hardy, Norwich

Location:     Norwich, Windsor County, VT, US
Observation date:     5/18/08
Notes:     Birdathon conducted within town of Norwich
Number of species:     86

Canada Goose     >6 at Ledyard, >12 at Pompy, with goslings
Wood Duck     2  Ledyard
Mallard     X
Common Merganser     1  female at Ledyard
Ruffed Grouse     1
Wild Turkey     7  none all day, then 3 groups after 7pm
Double-crested Cormorant     1
Green Heron     1
Black-crowned Night-Heron     1  young; at Ledyard 0530 to at least 1830
Turkey Vulture     1
Sandhill Crane     1  in Ompompanoosuc River (Pompy), at dawn
Killdeer     3
Spotted Sandpiper     3  at Ledyard
American Woodcock     1
Ring-billed Gull     2
Rock Pigeon     X
Mourning Dove     X
Black-billed Cuckoo     1
Barred Owl     1  finally, at 2130
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     X
Downy Woodpecker     X
Hairy Woodpecker     X
Northern Flicker     3
Alder Flycatcher     X
Willow Flycatcher     X
Least Flycatcher     X
Eastern Phoebe     X
Great Crested Flycatcher     X
Eastern Kingbird     X  fairly numerous
Yellow-throated Vireo     1  end of Bragg Hill Rd.
Warbling Vireo     3
Red-eyed Vireo     X
Blue Jay     X
American Crow     X
Common Raven     X
Tree Swallow     X
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     X  only a few, at Ledyard
Barn Swallow     X
Black-capped Chickadee     X
Tufted Titmouse     X
Red-breasted Nuthatch     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     X
Brown Creeper     1
House Wren     X
Winter Wren     1
Eastern Bluebird     1
Veery     1
Hermit Thrush     1
Wood Thrush     X
American Robin     X
Gray Catbird     X  ubiquitous
Northern Mockingbird     1  Chris', at Hillside Cemetery
Brown Thrasher     1  surprise for us; we don't see often
European Starling     X
Nashville Warbler     1
Northern Parula     X
Yellow Warbler     X  numerous at Ledyard - beautiful views
Chestnut-sided Warbler     X  fairly abundant
Black-throated Blue Warbler     X
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     X
Black-throated Green Warbler     X
Black-and-white Warbler     X
American Redstart     X
Ovenbird     X  lots
Louisiana Waterthrush     X  at least 3
Common Yellowthroat     X  fairly abundant
Scarlet Tanager     2
Chipping Sparrow     X  2 copulating
Savannah Sparrow     X
Song Sparrow     X
White-throated Sparrow     X
Dark-eyed Junco     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     X
Indigo Bunting     1
Bobolink     X
Red-winged Blackbird     X
Common Grackle     X
Brown-headed Cowbird     X
Baltimore Oriole     X  abundant
Purple Finch     X
House Finch     X
American Goldfinch     X
Evening Grosbeak     1
House Sparrow     X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)

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