{BIRD NOTES} ~ January 16, 2013

Bird Notes

 

Stark Road Barred Owl

About 45 min. ago had a barred owl fly into the backyard. Everything dispersed, but the birds quickly returned.  Not the red squirrels though!  2 of our grandsons slept over so they both had a great view of the owl as it lingered for about a half hour awaiting the return of squirrels.  The joys of backyard birding!

---Hollie Bowen, Marlboro, VT

 

 

Barred Owl in Waltham

This was the first sighting this year in Waltham MA, Gardencrest Apt area, of a Barred Owl, otherwise the usual feeder birds, chickadees, titmice & an occasional nuthatch.

---Doreen Pugh, Waltham, MA

 

 

Putney Common Redpolls

Your redpoll flock was here in Putney today, about a dozen stayed quite a while feeding! .

---Marilyn Tillinghast, Putney, VT

 

 

Snow Geese Along Putney Road

Sorry to have missed the count this year.  I did see a Magpie in Utah that day! I also wanted to report I saw 3 Snow Geese flying low over the Fulflex field on Putney road Sunday morning.  I was driving in the car and didn't stop to see if there were more, but I'm sure of the three.

---Burt Tepfer, Putney, VT

 

West B. Turkeys

Four Wild Turkeys continue their visits to our yard each day, arriving at daybreak then disappearing from time to time only to return just before dusk for a snack of cracked corn before returning to their roost in the hemlocks on our back hillside.

---Al, West Brattleboro, VT

 

 

FIELD TRIP: Cape Ann /Plum Island January 5, 2013

The following is a list of some of the birds seen on the field trip led by Chris & Nissa Petrak:

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter

Surf Scoter

Common Eider

KING EIDER

Bufflehead

Lesser Scaup

Common Goldeneye

Mallard

Black Duck

Gadwall

Harlequin Duck

Ruddy Duck

Red-breasted Merganser

Canada Goose

Common Loon

Black Guillemot

Horned Grebe

Herring Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Gr Black-backed Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Peregrine Falcon

Bald Eagle

Northern Gannett

Great Cormorant

Double-crested Comorant

Mute Swan

Purple Sandpipers

Sanderling

Snow Bunting

Common Redpoll

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-winged Crossbill

Amer Tree Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Purple Finch

Mockingbird

. . . and various other common winter birds

---Lani Wright, Brattleboro, VT

 

 

 

 

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Al Merritt

W. Brattleboro, VT

chpmnkx@sover.net

 

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