Highlights of this morning's Windsor Co. Quest outing to lake Runnemede:

Lake Runnemede, Windsor, US-VT
Nov 5, 2011 8:05 AM - 9:50 AM
27 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  300 (1 probable Cackling in flight overhead)
American Black Duck  13
Mallard  2
Ring-necked Duck  7
Surf Scoter  1 female
Bufflehead  2 males
Common Goldeneye  2 males
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Accipiter sp.  1     probable Cooper's, seen fleetingly
American Coot  3
Ring-billed Gull  1 adult
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  1
American Robin  8
Cedar Waxwing  4
American Tree Sparrow  12
Song Sparrow  4
Dark-eyed Junco  3
Red-winged Blackbird  1

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)


The Simon Pearce floodplain was exceedingly quiet, with nothing of 
note.  Ed Hack and I continued on and found 9 Horned Larks at Windsor's 
Great River Farm, but little else.

Thanks to a text by Spencer Hardy, several of us were alerted to a Ruddy 
Duck (likely an immature male) in the Mink Brook Cove downriver from 
Ledyard Bridge.  The bird was distant, but in the bright late afternoon 
sun, its compact size, white facial patch, and cocked tail were diagnostic.

Chris

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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
http://www.vtecostudies.org