An impromptu mid-afternoon run upriver produced the year's most 
surprising bird (for me) so far -- a Caspian Tern roosting on exposed 
flats at the north end of the 'oxbow' east of the RR tracks across from 
the farm.  I've never seen one in the Upper Valley in 25 years of 
birding here.  Ed Hack also had a Caspian Tern down at Runnemede a 
couple of hours earlier -- possibly the same bird??  I tend to doubt it....

Location:     Pompy Farm oxbow
Observation date:     4/20/11
Number of species:     10

Canada Goose     53
Mallard     14
Green-winged Teal (American)     2
Ring-necked Duck     10
Common Merganser     14
Killdeer     2
Caspian Tern     1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     1
Song Sparrow     3
Red-winged Blackbird     2


Highlights of brief early evening checks at Kilowatt boat access and Kilowatt N park:

Bufflehead     2
Common Loon    1
Carolina Wren  1
Fox Sparrow    3 (2 singing)
White-throated Sparrow   1


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

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