Campbell Flats featured a great selection of birds were this morning, 
with sparrows ruling the day. It was tough to identify many of them, let 
alone get accurate counts, as they dove repeatedly into and back out of 
the corn. The best activity was in the southeast corner of the corn 
field, near the riverside opening with picnic table and boats. I never 
glimpsed (or identified, anyway) the Clay-colored Sparrow found by 
George Clark, but the area was absolutely hopping between 9 and 10 am.

Among 35 species, highlights included:

Cooper's Hawk  1
Northern Flicker  3
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue-headed Vireo  1     sang several times
Red-eyed Vireo  2     both w/brown iris, eating black cherries
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  4
Eastern Bluebird  10     minimum number; a dispersed flock mostly feeding on fruits in canopy trees along river
Gray Catbird  6
Cedar Waxwing  20
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  4
Palm Warbler (Western)  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  14
Chipping Sparrow  15     minimum number; many feeding on fruits in tree canopy along river; did not see Clay-colored Sparrow reported by George Clark
White-throated Sparrow  45     minimum number, many moving from riverbank vegetation into corn and back
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  40     minimum number, many in corn
Lincoln's Sparrow  2
Swamp Sparrow  14     likely undercounted, several in corn
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  8
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Purple Finch  1     heard in flight

View this checklist online athttp://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25186236

-- 
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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