At 9:00 am and still at 10 this morning, a single Pectoral Sandpiper was 
roosting, and occasionally foraging, in the small area of flooded field 
directly across Rt. 132 from Pompy Flats by the I-91 bridge, just west 
of the ditch that runs N-S from the road.  George Clark, Ed Hack and I 
all had great looks through spotting scopes.

There was reasonable fall-out today, though not quite as hoped.  At 
Campbell Flats, before the rain shut things down, there was a Solitary 
Sandpiper foraging in the flooded and recently mowed field just west of 
the ditch.  A Merlin cruised by, and landbirds of note included 12 
Red-eyed Vireos, a Least Flycatcher, a R-t Hummingbird, 3 Northern 
Parulas, 4 B-t Green Warblers, an Ovenbird, 2 Scarlet tanagers, 12 
Indigo Buntings, and 2 Savannah Sparrows.

Chris

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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-8281 ext. 1
www.vtecostudies.org