I did my annual point counts at Roy Mountain WMA in Barnet this morning. It's an amazing and seldom-visted site -- a mature, moss-festooned cedar-fir swamp that was cutover many years ago and is now in reasonably pristine condition. There are no trails, and walking is tricky, with many deadfalls and hummocks and a lot of standing water. The bird assemblage is unusual, with good numbers of Yellow-bellied Flycatchers, No. Parulas, N. Waterthrushes, and Canada Warblers. Highlights, mostly singing males: Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 8 Alder Flycatcher 2 (nest with 2 eggs in adjacent alder wetland) Great Crested Flycatcher 1 (surprising) Blue-headed Vireo 2 Brown Creeper 2 Winter Wren 4 Hermit Thrush 3 Nashville Warbler 1 Northern Parula 4 Magnolia Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 4 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Northern Waterthrush 8 Canada Warbler 6 White-throated Sparrow 8 Dark-eyed Junco 6 Purple Finch 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org) -- Chris Rimmer Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1431 ext. 1 http://www.vtecostudies.org **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************