Today, under cloudy skies and with a cool breeze, Ed Hack and I looked  
from Vermont at birds around Kilowatt Park South in the Wilder section  
of Hartford and at locations in Norwich.

Waterbird highlights at Kilowatt Park South included a Double-crested  
Cormorant (a second cormorant was seen there when I revisited the area  
later today) and a female scaup.

South of the Ledyard Bridge between Hanover and Norwich, numerous  
swallows were flying about over the river and included at least 40  
Tree Swallows, at least 2 Rough-winged Swallows, and at least 4 Barn  
Swallows.

In the area by Pompy Farm, some highlights included 4 Green-winged  
Teal, a Great Blue Heron, 6 Tree Swallows, a Barn Swallow, and a  
singing Brown Thrasher.

Numerous swallows, but no additional species of swallows, were seen  
flying over the Connecticut River across from the mouth of the  
Ompompanoosuc River.

At the largely submerged Pompy flats, 22 Double-crested Cormorants  
were swimming and diving. Only a few minutes later, while on nearby  
Kendall Station Road in Norwich, we saw what was almost certainly this  
same cormorant flock in flight, headed off in an apparently northward  
direction.

George Clark
Norwich, VT