Once a summer aka June 18, I drive a specified route, 50 stops, 3 minutes
each. Tallying each individual, visually or audibly.
USBS is the US Biological Survey. Yesterday was the 8th year I have done
this census route, something like the 40th year the route has been surveyed.
Route starts in Post Mills and meanders around L Fairlee, down Rt 5, Godfrey
in Thetford which turns into Hogback and then out past Huntley Meadows in
Norwich. This is a breeding bird survey. There are routes all over the US.
72 species. One new for the year: Mourning Warbler with its slurry, churry
song in tangly-berry cover.
Highlights aside from our wonderful regular birds:
1 Green Heron
1 Be Kingfisher
12 other warbler species: No Waterthrush a first for the census, Bl-thr
Blue, many Am Redstarts, Blaackburnian, Pines !.
Alder, Least, Ea Kingbirds
1 NR-w Swallow, 1 Bank.
16 TuVu.
1 Ba Oriole. 1 ScTanager.
Not one Rb Grosbeak, or GC Flycatcher. 3 Tree Swallows. No Hawks.
1 Monarch, I Silver-spotted Skipper, and a bunch of Eu Skippers around the
Thetford dooryard yest.
Bill Shepard.
Bill Shepard
Project Coordinator
CT River Birding Trail
2360 Academy Road
Thetford Center, VT 05075
Home: 802 785-2855
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