{BIRD NOTES} ~ January 27, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bird Notes

 

 

I walked out to the Hinsdale bluffs this afternoon (1/22), just in time to see two adult Bald Eagles sitting side by side on a snag very close to the tree that contains the nest.  As I was watching them, the fog rolled in and they disappeared from view!  There were also 13 Common Mergansers in the river below the bluffs.
---Nori Howe, West Brattleboro, VT

 

Glaucous, Iceland, and Lesser Black-backed gulls continue to be reported

at Turners Falls, also a Greater Scaup

---RBA Western Mass..

 

2:30 PM  Friday 13 Jan.    SNOWY-the-unpredictable-OWL has returned to its   stone cave on Young Island's  east shore. It seems to be as cozy and sheltered    from the wind as is the Junco that sleeps nights in a phoebe nest above my cellar   doorway.

---David Hoag, Grand Isle, VT

 

I wanted to report a pair of Eastern Bluebirds on Pleasant Valley Rd in Saxton's  River. I had a hard time believing what I was seeing, but then the sun caught the  bright blue body. I think they are living off the rose hips in a great thicket of wild  climbers that is by the road.

Cheers,

---Sally Warren

 

There is a Tufted Duck being seen near the Champlain Bridge. Seems to me that it  was reported there last winter too.

 

Christmas Bird Count Results appear on next 2 pages.

 

 

2016—VTBR—Brattleboro Christmas Bird Count—Dec, 17 (page 1)

SPECIES	Rt.1	Rt.2	Rt.3	Rt.4	Rt.5	Rt.6	Rt.7	Retreat Meadow	Stone House	Vernon Dam	Total Species
Snow Goose
Canada Goose			1								1
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Am. Black Duck			3								3
Mallard			74								74
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Greater Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey		24	16			8					48
Northern Bobwhite
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle				2							2
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk					1						1
Coopers Hawk	1		2								3
Northern Goshawk					1						(CW)
Red-shouldered
Red-tailed Hawk	1		1					1			3
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon
American Woodcock
Ring-billed Gull			3								3
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon			68		26						94
Mourning Dove	2	43	13	1	2	5	4				70
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Barred Owl		1					1				2
Northern Saw Whet Owl
Belted Kingfisher							1				1
Red-bellied Woodpecker	1	2	1	1	1		4				10
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker	2	10	3	2	1	2	4				24
Hairy Woodpecker	2		2	3			5				12
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker		2		2		1	1	1			7
Eastern Phoebe
Northern Shrike
Blue Jay	5	46	10	32	18	28	14	2			155
American Crow		8	323		14	4	6	2			512

2016—VTBR—Brattleboro Christmas Bird Count—(page 2)

SPECIES	Rt1	Rt2	Rt3	Rt4	Rt5	Rt6	Rt7	Retreat Meadows	Stone House	Vernon Dam	Total Individuals
Common Raven					1		6				7
Horned Lark			10								10
Black-capped Chickadee	6	26	21	35	35	40	33				196
Boreal Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse	3	4	10	4	4	4	6				35
Red-breasted Nuthatch	1	2		1		2	1				7
White-breasted Nuthatch	1	6	4	4	4	4	2				25
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren			3	2							5
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet			1								1
Eastern Bluebird	1	23	3		13						40
Hermit Thrush
American Robin			1	4		2	4				11
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird				1	1						2
Brown Thrasher
European Starling	6	1	177		81	12		1			474
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing		6									6
Cape May Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Green-tailed Towhee
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow		2		15	3						20
Chipping Sparrow				1							1
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow	1		1								2
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow				2			1				3
Harris’s Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco	8	8	59	33	24	1	18				151
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting			1								1
Northern Cardinal			28	12	11	3	9				63
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Grosbeak
Purple Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll		8									8
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch		2	28	16	8	34		12			100
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow	30	45	57	20	65	44					261
TOTAL AREA SPECIES	16	20	30	20	22	19	16				42
CAR MILES
WALK MILES
NUMBER IN FIELD
PEOPLE HOURS

 

 

                                                                                                                         

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker actually showing its red belly spot. Are any coming to your suet feeder?

 

 

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can all enjoy reading about your birds and birding

experiences.

 

Al Merritt  chpmnkx@sover.net

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