Hello Vermont Birders:

I left Hinesburg this morning at 0330 in hopes of hearing an Eastern
Whip-poor-will. Wilson's Snipe and American Woodcock were easy to come by
but no luck finding a whip before sunrise.

As luck would have it, I met up with Ian Worley, Barbara Bronsan, and John
Chamberlain (apologies if I misspelled any names) around sunrise and birded
some private property. Access to the site may or may not be made public but
it is not for me to say at this time (sorry).

Nearing the completion of the walk, we were all celebrating hearing a
*Black-billed
Cuckoo* sing repeatedly when an even "better" bird spoke up. Much to our
surprise, an *Acadian Flycatcher *started to sing! It's explosive cries for
"pizza" rained down from about half way up in some mature hardwoods. It
sang long enough for me to get a cluttered audio recording but within
minutes it went quiet. We were never able to pick it out of the foliage. Oh
how I miss baby leaf season already. Whether we caught it passing through
or its setting up shop is impossible to say.

Check out the link below to hear the recording. You have to tease it out of
the more boisterous Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Ovenbird, Yellow-throated Vireo
and others. It punctuates the chorus at 2.5 seconds and 5.5 seconds but the
most conspicuous song burst occurs at 9.0 seconds.

https://soundcloud.com/erichynes/acadian-flycatcher-i

Other than the famous bird at last year's gathering, how many records are
there for VT?

Switching gears, the pair of *Upland Sandpipers* is still off Lemon Fair
Road in Weybridge. They were in the field on the north side of the road and
west of the river.

Cheers,

Eric Hynes
Hinesburg