Watching a flock of >30 robins on the office parking lot all afternoon, I ran upriver at 6 pm this evening, wondering if the interesting weather might produce interesting birds. Nothing out of the ordinary for water birds, but I had a female kestrel at the Pompy Farms oxbow and a nice male Yellow-rumped Warbler at Kendall Flats. The best birding was at Campbell Flats from 7-7:15. I flushed 6 Wilson's Snipe out of the wet sedge meadow on the north side of the road, 4 Savannah Sparrows along the edge of the cut corn field, and I watched a lone American Pipit foraging for earthworms on the sleet-covered road. Chris -- Chris Rimmer Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-8281 ext. 1 www.vtecostudies.org