Amateur birder question.. Do we have Vesper sparrows in this area? I was at
the boat launch area (I think) of the Kilowatt park in Wilder midmorning
because of all the reports on this list. I only have binoculars, but I was
able to see a flock of about 20 ring-necked ducks well enough to be fairly
sure that's what they were. (think they should be called ring-BILLED ducks)
I stayed for about an hour watching and looking out for anything else I
could identify, but finally got cold and had to leave. But before I went
home I went to take a quick look at the picnic area to see if I should go
back there later (I should), but forgot to take my binoculars with me. On
the paved walk I heard a bird I was quite sure I don't hear at home. It
REMINDED me of a song sparrow, but harsher and huskier. I had my stokes song
collection on my iphone, so once back in the car I went though possible
matches, starting with sparrows, and the only one that sounded like it might
have been what I heard was the vespers. It was categorized with "Field "
birds in my "birdjams" list, and the area it seemed to be singing from was
full of tall dead grass.. field-like, anyway.
I don't see many reports of Vespers on the list from the last year and a
half or so, and the earliest seems to be about 10 days later in the year
than now.
I'm so upset that I missed the bird walk last Saturday! I had a huge
reminder for myself that I'd seen all week and forgot it anyway.
Lila Ollmann
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> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:15:33 -0500
> From: george clark <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Quest Birding 11/13/10
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> Excellent weather for birders' comfort in November marked today's
> Norwich 2010 Birding Quest field trip. Under sunny skies and with calm
> breezes, participants, more than a dozen at the start, searched for
> birds from Norwich going from the Foley Park area northward along the
> Connecticut River to the area around Pompy. Then four participants
> continued on to seek birds in the Kilowatt Park area of Wilder (a
> section of Hartford, VT). There, two other birders from Norwich joined
> with our group for a time.
>
> Some highlights among 24 species found during today's outing included
> two Great Blue Herons in the vicinity of Kendall Station Road, 5
> species of waterfowl (Canada Geese, Wood Ducks [only from Wilder],
> Mallards, Hooded Mergansers, and Common Mergansers), a Belted
> Kingfisher near Pompy Farm, a few Pileated Woodpeckers, fine views of
> a Brown Creeper at Pompy, a Northern Mockingbird in Wilder, a House
> Finch near Pompy Farm, and 3 Evening Grosbeaks along Kendall Station
> Road.
>
> George
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> George Clark
> Norwich, VT
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> P.S. After the trip, 3 Pine Siskins briefly visited the backyard here
> in Norwich village.
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