Ledyard Bridge highlights this morning were a soaring Cooper's Hawk and a small flock of migrants at the far end of the RR tracks just before Montshire. Highlights: Canada Goose 6 Wood Duck 4 2 males in eclipse plumage Mallard 17 Hooded Merganser 3 Cooper's Hawk 1 probable female by size Eastern Phoebe 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Gray Catbird 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Pine Warbler 1 singing persistently Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Sparrow diversity and numbers are increasing at the Coop fields. Highlights: Turkey Vulture 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 18 flock flying south, presumably migrating Gray Catbird 3 Common Yellowthroat 1 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 8 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 3 Indigo Bunting 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt) -- Chris Rimmer Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1431 ext. 1 http://www.vtecostudies.org