Apologies for a late posting: last Thursday evening and Friday morning 
featured a surprising level of vocal activity, both calling and singing, 
by Bicknell's Thrush on the Mt. Mansfield ridgeline. Several of us from 
VCE were mist-netting and banding on our long-term study site there. We 
captured 10 Bicknell's, including a 10 year-old male that we had 
originally banded as an immature in September of 2000. We netted 3 
females and heard at least one group of fledglings. Several birds had 
already begun their post-breeding flight feather molt. We also netted 10 
Blackpoll Warblers, including several individuals in early stages of 
molt. For more details, check out the VCE blog: 
http://vtecostudies.blogspot.com/2009/07/bicknells-thrush-geolocator-quest-on-mt.html.

Chris

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

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