I was in Cambridge last week and found what was eventually id'd as a
Siskin fledgling- I was pretty stumped but got a few half-decent photos,
thanks to Steve, Mark and Jim at Audubon for sorting it out with me.

Aaron

Aaron Worthley
950 Bert White Road
Huntington, VT 05462
(802)434-7012
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vermont Birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Allan
Strong
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 11:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] pine siskin fledgling

Nice find Kent,

In South Burlington, I reported brood patches on female siskins in early

April, and we banded again on the 25th of April and caught 20 siskins, 8

with brood patches.  The same day, we had what must have been a major 
movement of siskins, as a group of ~40 birds flew into a birch tree and 
then took off to the north.  My neighbor was banding again today and
caught 
2 siskin fledglings. All sorts of complicated and interesting behaviors!

Allan

At 11:32 AM 5/2/2009 -0400, you wrote:
>I found a Pine Siskin fledgling yesterday in Woodstock. It had a half 
>grown tail. and nearly fully grown primaries. It could only fly about 5

>feet at a time. I flushed it out of a ditch along the road in my
neighborhood.
>So,observations of gathering nest material and brood patches now jumps
to 
>nesting for sure, at least in Woodstock.
>Keep your eyes open for actual nests!
>Kent
>
>--
>Kent McFarland
>Vermont Center for Ecostudies
>PO Box 420 . Norwich, VT 05055
>802.649.1431
>http://www.vtecostudies.org/



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Allan M. Strong
University of Vermont
The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
347 Aiken Center
Burlington, VT 05405
802-656-2910
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