Location:     The Gables at East Mountain
Observation  date:     3/20/10
Notes:     Two Tree Swallows  and a pair of Eastern Bluebirds investigating 
four potential nesting  boxes.
Number of species:     8

Tree Swallow   2
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted  Nuthatch     1
Eastern Bluebird      2
American Robin     2
European Starling      5
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)     2
Northern  Cardinal     2

Location:     Lake Bomoseen-Castleton (2360  acres)
Observation date:     3/20/10
Notes:   Observations made from four stations around the lake. Lake still  
about 95% frozen.  Open water increasing along shoreline.   Red-shouldered 
hawk seen and heard in same area that a pair nested three years  ago.
Number of species:     22

Canada Goose   4
Mallard     8
Green-winged Teal   1
Bufflehead     1
Common Merganser   7
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Ring-billed  Gull     5
Downy Woodpecker     1
Blue  Jay     2
American Crow     3
Common  Raven     2
Black-capped Chickadee      5
Tufted Titmouse     2
Red-breasted Nuthatch   1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
American  Robin     1
European Starling     4
Song  Sparrow     2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)   1
Northern Cardinal     1
Red-winged  Blackbird     5
Common Grackle     4

Location:     Lake Bomoseen/Hubbardton Marshes  IBA
Observation date:     3/20/10
Notes:      Upper end of the lake is now completely open water.  Sixty-five 
of the  Canada Geese were in a single skein heading north. 
Number of species:   10

Canada Goose     72
American  Wigeon     1
American Black Duck      6
Mallard     1
Ring-necked Duck      13
Hooded Merganser     4
Downy Woodpecker   1
Blue Jay     2
American Crow   1
Red-winged Blackbird     5

Location:     Hubbardton Battlefield
Observation  date:     3/20/10
Notes:     Inviting south  breeze!  American Kestrel appeared to be 
migrating. Paused momentarily on a  snag in front of observer! Common Grackles also 
appeared to be  migrating.
Number of species:     13

Canada Goose   35
Turkey Vulture     2
Red-tailed Hawk   2
American Kestrel     1
Blue Jay   2
American Crow     13
Black-capped  Chickadee     1
Tufted Titmouse      1
American Robin     1
Song Sparrow      1
Red-winged Blackbird     2
Common Grackle   9
American Goldfinch     2

This report was  generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)


Cheers,
Roy Pilcher
The Gables at East Mountain, Rutland,  Vermont

Speaking the same language.