1) Feeders up for first time Wednesday although going in at night for now. Immediately attracted a crowd of usual winter visitors including two tufted titmice (first of season), two white-breasted nuthatches and six dark-eyed juncos.

2) Eight wild turkeys came to the feeders this morning.
3) Red-tailed hawk and ruffed grouse are regular home property sightings.

3) First sizable flock of robins (30+/-) moving between a neighbor's crabapple and an adjacent pasture. Most robin groups to date have been in the 8-to-12 range. Half-a-dozen robins have been working over a crabapple by our front door over the last three days.

4) This morning at corner of Kendall Station Rd. and US Rt. 5 in Norwich, VT a mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds and common grackles, approximately ten of each, under a feeder.

5) An adult common loon continues to be seen on Lyme's Post Pond almost daily. At adjacent Chaffee Sanctuary yesterday a green-winged teal and a black duck.

Blake  Allison

 
Lyme, NH 03768-3322