4/16  White-throated Sparrow -2;  Chipping Sparrow - 1, Goldfinches
 
4/17  Trip N checking flooded areas along Otter Ck   W Rutland to Proctor to Brandon to Leicester Jct to Salibury.   Rt 73 out of Brandon closed!   Have been noticing a marked decline in the usual ubiquitous Mallad.   Disappointingly few ducks overall.  BOLD are 1st of season for me.  
 
Great Blue Heron - 5 (including 3 on nests)
Kingfisher - 3
Greater Yellow Legs - 1
Common Goldeneye - 2
Green Winged Teal - 10
Pintail - 2
Ringnecked Ducks - c. 134
Bufflehead - 15

Pied Billed Grebe - 2
Wigeon - 6
Mallard - 23
Wood Duck - 5

Common Merganser - 3
Hooded Merganser - 4 (3 female, 1 male)
Swamp Sparrow - 16

Savannah Sparrow - 1

Turkey Vulture - 6
Red-tailed Hawk - 3

Harrier - 2
Sharp-shinned - 1

Kestrel - 2 (male and female)
Tree Swallow 16+
Barn Swallow - 1 (in Pawlet)
Turkeys - 6
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker - 2

Flicker - 3
Killdeer - 2
Raven - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Bluebird - 3 or 4
Goldfinch - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 1

Junco 

Phoebe
Starlings
Robins
Black-capped Chickadees

Song Sparrows

Red-winged Blackbirds
+ other ordinaries we didn't note?
 
Infant - 2 (feeding)
Milbert's Tortoiseshell - 4
Comma - prob Eastern - 1
Mourning Cloak - 2
 
Wood Frogs
Spring Peepers
 
4/18:  Pied-billed Grebe - Manchester CC pond,  Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Brown Creeper,  8 male - 1 female Wood Ducks.  
 
Ruth Stewart
E. Dorset
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