With the recent rains and subsequent flooding I thought it worth while to check out Cornwall Swamp.  It was flooded as expected but this second phase among the waterfowl only resident mallard were observed, mostly males.  Females though absent were hopefully and safely incubating eggs.  Migrants and vagrants, no doubt, now long gone were on their northern breeding grounds.

Cheers, Roy Pilcher 


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Subject: eBird Report - Cornwall Swamp (south) WMA -- Swamp Road, May 28, 2013


Cornwall Swamp (south) WMA -- Swamp Road, Addison, US-VT
May 28, 2013 9:10 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments:     High water due to recent rains.
39 species

Mallard  26     Only ducks observed.  Mostly males, trusting females and nests 
had not been flooded out.
American Bittern  1     Calling/pumping.
Red-tailed Hawk  1     Perched on snag.
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Wilson's Snipe  2     Winnowing.
Ring-billed Gull  3
Mourning Dove  5
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Alder Flycatcher  1
Willow Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
Warbling Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  4
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  2
Barn Swallow  16     In and under covered bridge.
Veery  5
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  1
European Starling  6
Ovenbird  4
Northern Waterthrush  7
Common Yellowthroat  4
American Redstart  1
Yellow Warbler  3
Song Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  1
Scarlet Tanager  1
Bobolink  4
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  7
Baltimore Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14271771

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