This is the first in a series of ten or so reports that I will be making
for the next week or so. My Y.E.S. (Year End Studies) Plan is Day Hikes
in Vermont. During these few weeks, we will be going on various hikes
throughout Vermont and I thought that this would be a great oppourtunity
to study some of our mountain bird life. The Highlight of each day is
bolded.

 

 

VT Day Hikes Bird Lists

Day 1: Okemo

5-31-06

 

Start Time - 10:00 am

Summit Reached at - 12:00 pm

Start Descent - 12:30 pm

Bottom Reached - 1:30 pm

 

Conditions - Sunny, Clear; Highs in the low 90's

Summit Habitat - trees definitely shorter than at bottom, but nowhere
near dwarf forest or alpine meadow.

Other Habitats noted - Deciduous forest, mixed forest, alpine evergreen
forest.

 

Birds Seen:

Turkey Vulture 1 

Mourning Dove 2 

Chimney Swift 1 

Downy Woodpecker 1 

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 

Least Flycatcher 2

Blue-headed Vireo 5 

Red-eyed Vireo 12 

Blue Jay 3

American Crow 2 

Black-capped Chickadee 7 

White-breasted Nuthatch 2 

Winter Wren 2 

Hermit Thrush 1 

Wood Thrush 1 

American Robin 2 

Yellow Warbler 2 

Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 

Magnolia Warbler 1 

Black-throated Blue Warbler 9 

Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 

Black-throated Green Warbler 6 

Blackburnian Warbler 1 

Blackpoll Warbler 5 

American Redstart 7 

Ovenbird 9 

Common Yellowthroat 1 

Canada Warbler 1 

Chipping Sparrow 2 

White-throated Sparrow 4