Spent the last couple three days birding the Pipeline East where it's almost too hot now (September just 122 days away : ). And yesterday had the good fortune to find 4 Black-backed woodpeckers within 75' of one another. Lot of interaction and positioning going on. Picked up my first Tick and a couple Moose and one Mink. Found the feathers of another Spruce Grouse that was dinner for some predator and saw my first Garter Snake  (of the year) in the talons of a Red-tail pass by overhead. Todays list follows:

Victory Basin WMA IBA--Pipeline east of River Road, Essex, US-VT May 2, 2013 5:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
42 species

Canada Goose  4
Wood Duck  2
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  2
Ruffed Grouse  3
American Bittern  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Northern Goshawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Wilson's Snipe  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  3
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Black-backed Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker  2
Pileated Woodpecker  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue-headed Vireo  2
Gray Jay  1
Blue Jay  3
Common Raven  1
Tree Swallow  6
Black-capped Chickadee  8
Red-breasted Nuthatch  5
Brown Creeper  2
Winter Wren  2
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  6
Hermit Thrush  3
American Robin  X
Northern Waterthrush  5
Nashville Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  X
Song Sparrow  2
Swamp Sparrow  8
White-throated Sparrow  X
Dark-eyed Junco  4
Common Grackle  2
Purple Finch  3
American Goldfinch  1
Evening Grosbeak  1