I conducted my annual Forest Bird Monitoring Program census at Roy Mountain WMA in Barnet this morning. It's really an impressive, magical place - a lowland cedar-fir swamp, with some monstrous green ash. I don't know of another site quite like it in VT, though there are doubtless a few. It is virtually untrammeled, with very few signs that anyone ever penetrates the forest. The breeding bird community is quite "eclectic", if that word can be applied... I highly recommend a visit there, though navigating the deadfalls, hummocks, and sinkholes is tricky. Today's list: Ruffed Grouse 3 female and at least 2 chicks capable of short flight Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 6 singing Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Blue-headed Vireo 1 singing Blue Jay 2 American Crow 1 Common Raven 1 Black-capped Chickadee 7 Red-breasted Nuthatch 8 two family groups Brown Creeper 1 singing Winter Wren 7 6 singing Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 singing Veery 1 calling American Robin 2 singing Ovenbird 3 singing in adjacent mixed forest Northern Waterthrush 3 singing Nashville Warbler 3 singing Common Yellowthroat 2 singing Northern Parula 3 singing Magnolia Warbler 1 singing Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 singing Black-throated Green Warbler 1 singing Canada Warbler 7 singing Song Sparrow 1 singing in adjacent shrubby wetland White-throated Sparrow 6 singing Dark-eyed Junco 2 singing Scarlet Tanager 1 singing Purple Finch 2 singing Evening Grosbeak 1 calling in flight View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18839814 -- Chris Rimmer Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1431 ext. 1 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 ****************************************************************