How to find time for birding, with so many great species passing through 
and arriving?
We tried the get-up-and-out-earlier approach today, pre-school and pre-rain.
It worked. Highlights:

Lake Pinneo in Quechee
   Horned Grebe    **unusual here
   Red-neck Grebe

Dewey's Pond in Quechee
   Merlin - hunting red-wing blackbirds
   Kingbirds  3
   (Otter 1)

Wilder Dam
   Common Loon - winter plumage
   Bonaparte's Gull - winter plumage
   Green Heron    *FOY for us
   Ruby-crown Kinglet - great views with ruby flashes
   Brown Thrasher - sitting up singing, in concert with Catbird

Ledyard
   Bonaparte's Gull - winter plumage (different bird than at Wilder)
   Greater Yellowlegs  1

No Shoveler at yesterday's location.

Doug & Spencer Hardy, Norwich



Lots of nice new arrivals, and

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