{BIRD NOTES and a Program Note}

 

Bird Notes

 

 

Previous local sightings:

A local Raven has been heard each day in the vicinity of Mather Road & Greenleaf St.

 

Saw a Bald Eagle perched in another treetop this morning, (Dec.14) high above I-91 near Kurn Hattin Homes.

---Malcolm Moore

 

A BLACK SCOTER was seen on the Connecticut River in Hinsdale on December 13th.

---Bird East report

 

Bald Eagle fly-over at the Retreat Meadows (Dec. 12)

 

A small flock of Robins was digging for worms in the fresh pile of topsoil in a property along Greenleaf Street.                                                                         

 

Frequent visitors of not so common birds at our feeder at Chipmunk Crossing:

Red-bellied Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker and Carolina Wren,

 

Bob Engel has reported brief stopovers at his crabapple tree by a flock of marauding Cedar Waxwings

 

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P  R  O  G  R  A  M

 

“Three Deserts”

7 p.m. Tuesday, January 19, 2016

 

Dr. Robert Engel, Professor Emeritus of Biology, Marlboro College,

will acquaint us with the three United States deserts (Chihuahuan,

Sonoran, and Mohave) each almost as different from one another as tthey

are from the forests of Vermont. They are also teaming with life. This slide

presentation will try to demonstrate the austere beauty of these

unappreciated natural systems.

 

 

Community room of Brooks Library.

FREE and open to the public.

Sponsored by Southeastern Vermont Audubon

 

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 can all enjoy reading about your birds and birding

 experiences.

 

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Al Merritt  chpmnkx@sover.net

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Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society:   www.sevtaudubon.org