A reminder, we keep a database of nest records. Please visit
http://www.vinsweb.org/conservation/nestrecord.html. You can report everything
from Robins to Woodpeckers.
Thanks.
Kent McFarland


Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:01:18 EST
From: - Maeve Kim <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Whalley Rd. woodpecker
Recently, Rodney Olsen saw a Red-bellied Woodpecker on a feeder at the jct.
of Whalley and Lake Rd. in Charlotte. I can't answer his question (Are they
uncommon winter birds?) - but in March '02 I spent quite a long time
watching a red-bellied woodpecker apparently excavating a nest hole right
beside the apple orchard at the right-angle bend in Whalley Road.
Maeve Kim
Jericho Center
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:17:30 -0500
From: Wayne Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Whalley Rd. woodpecker
There is only one confirmed nesting ever of Red-bellied in Vermont - in
Brattleboro a couple of years ago; so any evidence of additional nesting is
significant. I predict with the new Atlas Project getting underway this
year, there will be others.
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Wayne Scott
Compiler, VT Rare Bird Alert


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Vermont Institute of Natural Science
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