{BIRD NOTES ~ June 15, 2016}

Bird Notes

 

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Mary wanted me to send you a picture of a mother Common Merganser

and her six ducklings. We were paddling at the Lily Pond here in

Vernon. We stopped to eat breakfast on an island when they swam by.

When we first saw them the little ones were riding on the mother’s

back. Sorry the image isn’t more clear, but they were going away

from us .

Thanks for your sending the bird news.

---Paul Miller, Vernon, VT

 

 

I saw a Great Blue Heron fly over the Retreat Meadows (6/9)

---Kevin O”Keefe

 

Yellow Warbler heard, then seen sitting on fence post along Abbott Road in West Brattleboro. (6/10)

 

Hildene - Lincoln Family Home, Bennington, Vermont,

May 28, 2016 6:45 AM - 9:25 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Comments:  70 degrees, sunny, 36 species:

1. Canada Goose  2
2. Ruffed Grouse  1    (heard only)
3. Mourning Dove  1
4. Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
5. Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
6. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
7. Pileated Woodpecker  1
8. Eastern Wood-Pewee  3
9. Eastern Phoebe  2
10. Great Crested Flycatcher  2
11. Red-eyed Vireo  9
12. Blue Jay  3
13. American Crow  9
14. Tree Swallow  1
15. Black-capped Chickadee  2
16. Tufted Titmouse  4
17. White-breasted Nuthatch  2
18. House Wren  1
19. Eastern Bluebird  2
20. Veery  3
21. Wood Thrush  2
22. American Robin  7
23. Gray Catbird  4
24. Ovenbird  8
25. Black-and-white Warbler  5
26. Common Yellowthroat  6
27. Chestnut-sided Warbler  2
28. Black-throated Blue Warbler  3
29. Pine Warbler  1
30. Black-throated Green Warbler  1
31. White-throated Sparrow  3
32. Song Sparrow  3
33. Northern Cardinal  M&F   (Female carrying long piece of grass)
34. Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
35. Indigo Bunting  3
36. American Goldfinch  1

---Submitted by Ruth Stewart, E. Dorset, VT

 

 

A Thoughtful Offer by Marj and Malcom Wright

We are downsizing and going through books that we no longer need. I have a nice

copy of Eliot Porter’s “Birds of North America: A Personal Selection”. It’s a

first edition from 1972 and in decent condition. Beautiful color and black and

white photographs.  I thought that someone in the Audubon group might like to

have this, for free,  and that you could post this offer in your next email, if not

a bother.

 

Thanks,

Marj Wright

            

Malcolm & Marj Wright

tpkrd@myfairpoint.net

 

 

PLEASE share your birding news and photos with us, so we

 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

 

 

 

 

 

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Field Walk on Black Mountain

Monday, June 20^th, 6:00 p.m.

Explore signs of Glacial Lake Hitchcock.

Meet at Dummerston covered bridge parking lot to carpool to site.