On a cool morning under largely overcast skies and with a bit of fog,  
about 20 participants joined today in a Windsor County 2014 Birding  
Quest bird walk and identified 34 bird species at Lake Runnemede in  
the town of Windsor, VT.

Highlights included several dozen Canada Geese, 21 Wood Ducks, 9  
American Black Ducks, a Pied-billed Grebe, an immature Double-crested  
Cormorant, a Northern Harrier, 2 American Coots, 7 Northern Flickers,  
an Eastern Phoebe, 2 Carolina Wrens, 27 American Robins, 5 Gray  
Catbirds, American Pipits in flight, 15 Yellow-rumped Warblers, an  
early-in-the-season American Tree Sparrow, numerous Song and White- 
throated Sparrows, 2 Swamp Sparrows, 2 immature White-crowned  
Sparrows, a lingering Indigo Bunting, and a few Purple Finches.

Special thanks to coleaders Sara Eisenhauer and Scott Johnson, the  
latter of whom prepared the eBird report including additional details  
about today's birds. See http://ebird.org/ebird/vt/view/checklist?subID=S20197104

For some participants, today's bird walk provided the first  
opportunity to see a new calendar produced as a fund raiser by the  
nonprofit Windsor Public Library and displaying photographs  
contributed by professional and amateur photographers of birds at Lake  
Runnemede. Some of the names of the photographers may be very familiar  
to readers of the Upper Valley Birders Listserv. Copies of the new  
calendar are reported to be available for $10 each at the Windsor  
Public Library at 43 State Street. As of today, according to eBird,  
187 bird species have so far been found at Lake Runnemede which is  
thus, among all Upper Valley birding locations, the one with the  
highest reported cumulative total of bird species found over the years  
covered by eBird .

George Clark
Norwich, VT

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