As this message was sending, a male Red-winged Blackbird dropped in.
Surprisingly it is not the first this winter.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:10 PM, spencer hardy
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> With a mostly free weekend, I had the opportunity to spend a couple
> hours "working" in front of the feeder window. Not an atypical day at
> the feeders, but after a while, I took a stroll down the road. It
> immediately became evident that there was lots of activity in the
> woods. Lots of the birds I was seeing at the feeder would make very
> brief appearances, and some, like the Red-bellied never came in. It
> has definitely been a weird winter.
>
> In the first two months of 2011 I had 13 species on 24 checklists, so
> far this year I have 22 species on 12 checklist for the property.
>
>
> home, Windsor, US-VT
> Feb 11, 2012 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
> Protocol: Area
> 4.0 ac
> 16 species
>
> Mourning Dove  20
> Red-bellied Woodpecker  1     Present all winter
> Downy Woodpecker  1
> Hairy Woodpecker  3
> Blue Jay  20
> Common Raven  1
> Black-capped Chickadee  10
> Tufted Titmouse  2
> White-breasted Nuthatch  1
> European Starling  8
> White-throated Sparrow  1
> Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  20
> Northern Cardinal  1     Female, present on and off all winter
> Purple Finch  1
> Pine Siskin  4
> House Sparrow  1     First for the area in years
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)
>
>
> --
> Good Birding,
> Spencer



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Good Birding,
Spencer