After Lake Runnemede I went to Marton Road in Windsor, Kestrel was noisy around nest boxes. Mike.
Michael T. Quinn
Habitat Helper
P. O. Box 639
Windsor, VT 05089
802.674.2522
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Subject: [UVB] Lake Runnemede
A record 26 birders attended this morning's Windsor Quest outing at Lake
Runnemede. It was an excellent, if not spectacular, morning, with
highlights below among the 33 species.
Wood Duck 2
Ring-necked Duck 6
Lesser Scaup 1 female
Common Merganser 7
Double-crested Cormorant 3 flyover heading north
Northern Flicker 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Tree Swallow 8
Carolina Wren 1 singing
Song Sparrow 16
Swamp Sparrow 2 singing
White-throated Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Purple Finch 1 singing
Pine Siskin 2
Evening Grosbeak 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)
A few of us stopped at The Simon Perarce floodplain site afterwards and
had a male Red-bellied Woodpecker along the river, but little else of note.
I've been keeping tabs on an Eastern Bluebird nest in Hillside Cemetery
off Hopson Road in Norwich. I returned on March 25 from a week away and
found a fully-constructed nest in the usual box (3 successful broods
last year). The weather immediately turned cold, and stayed that way
for almost 2 weeks, and I saw almost no further activity, other than the
female bringing some nest lining on April 3. The pair was rarely
visible nearby during this entire time. On April 11 at 7:30 am, a
single egg was in the nest. On the 12th at 7:30 am the female was
sitting tight and I did not check the contents. Yesterday at 7:40 am 2
eggs were present, and there was no sign of either adult. I checked
again at 6 pm - 3 eggs were in the cup and the female was inside the box
perched on the rim (I didn't realize it until I opened the box, but she
was completely unperturbed). This evening at 7:45 pm she was in the box
again, presumably incubating.
Last year the female (probably the same bird) laid her first egg on
April 16 and was incubating 4 eggs on the 19th. In 2010, she also laid
her first egg on the 16th and was incubating 4 eggs on the 20th. So,
she's only a few days ahead of schedule this year after her false start
during the balmy late March spell.
Chris
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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
http://www.vtecostudies.org