{BIRD NOTES} ~ February 08, 2012

Northern Saw-whet Owl

 

Bird Notes

 

 

A flock of Cedar Waxings came through yesterday and made short work of cleaning all the berries off our big high bush cranberry.  Such beautiful birds.

---Carol Barber, South St., W. Brattleboro

 

 

I just saw a Red-winged Blackbird here in Westminster West.... I

imagine if I have seen one, there must be many more... earliest I have

recorded in this location... Best, Tatiana.

---Tatiana Schreiber

 

 

Dummerston Owl

About midnight last night a Saw-whet was calling outside my house in
Dummerston.
---Hector Galbraith

 

 

Robins in West B.

This morning about eleven I was driving home via Greenleaf Street when I slowed to check out the old reliable ornamental crabapple that was again loaded with tiny apples as it is each year. There on the ground beneath its drooping branches was a flock of about 2 dozen Robins enjoying the fallen bounty. Spring-like signs though not yet officially so. It was still a welcome sight.

 

 

Florida Report

Paula and I returned from a week down in Florida where we celebrated my Dad's 86th birthday. While there we had some excellent birds:
Sarasota: Celery Fields: a beautiful drake CINNAMON TEAL
Fort DeSoto: LARK SPARROW

      400 Redheads
Merritt Island: EURASION WIGEON(2)

      300 American Avocets along Black Pointe Drive
      5 Painted Buntings by the visitor center
Orlando Wetlands: VERMILION FLYCATCHER
      6 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
      1 Purple Gallinule
---Scotty Baldinger, Wurtsboro, NY

 

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What have you got coming to your feeders?

Are there any birds nesting in your yard?

What have you seen while on a trip?

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 Al Merritt

W. Brattleboro, VT

 

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