Six members of Rutland County Audubon tallied 44
species this morning at Aitken State Forest in
Mendon. The high number of individual birds is
the result of breaking up into two groups, one
going to the top of Bald Mountain, the other
staying on the lower trails.

3 Ruffed Grouse  
1 Broad-winged Hawk  
2 Mourning Dove  
9 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  
1 Downy Woodpecker  
2 Hairy Woodpecker  
1 Northern Flicker  
1 Pileated Woodpecker  
13 Least Flycatcher  
3 Eastern Phoebe (nest constructed on back of
information kiosk on Notch Road)   
11 Blue-headed Vireo  
2 Red-eyed Vireo  
23 Blue Jay  
1 American Crow  
2 Common Raven  
9 Black-capped Chickadee  
1 Tufted Titmouse  
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch  
3 White-breasted Nuthatch  
7 Winter Wren  
5 Veery  
6 Hermit Thrush  
3 Wood Thrush  
13 American Robin  
2 Nashville Warbler  
1 Northern Parula  
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler  
23 Black-throated Blue Warbler  
18 Yellow-rumped Warbler  
16 Black-throated Green Warbler  
9 Blackburnian Warbler  
1 Pine Warbler  
6 Black-and-white Warbler  
4 American Redstart  
39 Ovenbird  
1 Louisiana Waterthrush  
7 Scarlet Tanager  
2 Chipping Sparrow  
3 White-throated Sparrow  
7 Dark-eyed Junco  
9 Rose-breasted Grosbeak  
4 Baltimore Oriole  
4 Purple Finch  
10 American Goldfinch 

Sightings reported to eBird!

Sue Elliott
http://www.rutlandcountyaudubon.org