Yesterday (Sunday) I had my first VT record of a Red-bellied 
Woodpecker, calling from the oak-maple-beech woods around my house in 
Norwich.  It stayed only briefly before flying off to the 
south.  Being that this is the final year of the VT Breeding Bird 
Atlas, all Upper Valley birders are encouraged to make a special 
effort to document the nesting status this northward-expanding species.

I also had 2 singing Pine Warblers and the season's first 3 Tree 
Swallows, plus a male E. Bluebird investigating a next box.

Today at VINS in Quechee, single Yellow-rumped and Pine warblers singing.

Chris
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Chris Rimmer
Conservation Biology Dept.
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
6565 Woodstock Road
P.O. Box 1281
Quechee, VT 05059
802-359-5001 ext. 230
www.vinsweb.org/cbd/index.html

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