Despite the overcast conditions, West Rutland
Marsh was at its spring best today with eight
participants tallying 64 species (compared with
68 one year ago).

Highlights today included an American Bittern
flying directly overhead, a Black-billed Cuckoo
and a Blue-winged Warbler. Solitary Sandpiper,
Brown Thrasher, Eastern Towhee, not usually
observed, were also counted. An Eastern Kingbird
and a female Baltimore Oriole were each observed
carrying nesting material.

6 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
5 Mallard
2 Ruffed Grouse
3 American Bittern
1 Red-tailed Hawk
4 Virginia Rail
1 Solitary Sandpiper
2 Wilson's Snipe
1 Rock Pigeon
14 Mourning Dove
1 Black-billed Cuckoo
6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3 Downy Woodpecker
2 Northern Flicker
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Alder Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
5 Eastern Phoebe
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
12 Eastern Kingbird
7 Warbling Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
10 Blue Jay
12 American Crow
2 Common Raven
17 Tree Swallow
8 Barn Swallow
10 Black-capped Chickadee
3 Tufted Titmouse
7 House Wren
1 Winter Wren
10 Marsh Wren
2 Veery
2 Wood Thrush
14 American Robin
13 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
4 European Starling
1 Blue-winged Warbler
23 Yellow Warbler
7 Chestnut-sided Warbler
2 Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 Black-throated Green Warbler
5 Black-and-white Warbler
5 Ovenbird
21 Common Yellowthroat
2 Scarlet Tanager
1 Eastern Towhee
2 Chipping Sparrow
1 Savannah Sparrow
14 Song Sparrow
11 Swamp Sparrow
2 White-throated Sparrow
5 Northern Cardinal
5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
49 Red-winged Blackbird
11 Common Grackle
3 Brown-headed Cowbird
11 Baltimore Oriole
2 Purple Finch
1 House Finch
36 American Goldfinch
8 House Sparrow

The next marsh monitoring walk is scheduled for
Saturday, June 21, 7 a.m.

Rutland County Audubon's annual Century Count is
scheduled for Saturday, May 31, 6 a.m.

Sue Elliott
http://www.rutlandcountyaudubon.org