SVAS Field Trip

Bird Watching Along the Connecticut

Saturday April 27, 2013

 

Many thanks to all of you for joining us Saturday morning on this annual early spring bird walk. The weather was near perfect, though it was a little chilly (34 degrees) at the start, but it turned into a beautiful sunny morning in the 60s.  It was the kind of day that gave us all a chance to shake off the winter blahs and enjoy spring at its finest with a great group of birders, on the back roads of Brattleboro. If you stuck with us until the noon hour and you saw or heard all of the species counted, you would have realized 30 on your list. They are as follows:

 

1. Canada Goose
2. Double-crested Cormorant
3. Turkey Vulture
4. Sharp-shinned Hawk
5. Killdeer
6. Greater Yellowlegs
7. Rock Pigeon
8. Mourning Dove
9. Belted Kingfisher
10. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
11. Downy Woodpecker
12. American Crow
13. Tree Swallow
14. Black-capped Chickadee
15. Tufted Titmouse
16. White-breasted Nuthatch
17. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
18. American Robin
19. Brown Thrasher
20. European Starling
21. Yellow-rumped Warbler
22. Chipping Sparrow
23. Field Sparrow
24. Song Sparrow
25. Swamp Sparrow
26. White-throated Sparrow
27. Northern Cardinal
28. Red-winged Blackbird
29. Common Grackle
30. House Finch

 

Participants:

Phyllis Benay, Jan Drechsler, Bob Engel, Henry Glejzer, Richard Glejzer, Susan James, Patty Meyer, Greg Moschetti, Anne Moore Odell, Chris Petrak,

Emily Talley, Susan Whittemore, Malcom & Marj Wright, and trip leaders Barbara & Al Merritt.

 

The next outing will be “Putney Wildflowers and Birds” ~ Sunday May 5, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Meet our knowledgeable leader Pat Shields at the Putney School Forest kiosk by the Putney Pool (the driveway right before Putney Central School).

 

Happy Birding,

Al