Hoping to find one of the winged warblers, we spent an hour this morning
birding Marton Road near the Windsor Correctional Facility. Great to see
a hybrid singing a mostly Blue-winged song - with an occasional extended
ending - and then up the hill we found a pure Blue-winged, perhaps the
bird Ken saw yesterday (see below). Judging from the lack of tail
feathers, it may have been lucky to be alive!
Spencer Hardy, Norwich
Location: Marton Rd. near SESCF in Windsor
Observation date: 5/24/09
Random highlights only:
Ruffed Grouse 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (low flyby... great)
Cooper's Hawk 1 (higher flyby)
Alder Flycatcher 3
Common Raven 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1 male, missing all but one tail feather,
which had grown in pure white.
Brewster's Warbler (hybrid) 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Eastern Towhee 2 (pair, great views)
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)
Ken Cox wrote:
> Date: May 23, 2009
> Location: Southeast State Correctional Facility (formerly the Windsor County
> Prison Farm), Windsor
> Time: 10:30-12:45
> Total species: 43
> Total individuals: 163
>
> Ruffed Grouse 1
> Wild Turkey 2
> Wilson's Snipe 1
> Rock Pigeon 5
> Mourning Dove 3
> Northern Flicker 1
> Alder Flycatcher 2
> Willow Flycatcher 1
> Warbling Vireo 1
> Red-eyed Vireo 4
> Blue Jay 1
> American Crow 5
> Common Raven 1
> Tree Swallow 9
> Barn Swallow 6
> Black-capped Chickadee 10
> White-breasted Nuthatch 1
> Veery 1
> Wood Thrush 1
> Americabn Robin 4
> Gray Catbird 7
> Brown Thrasher 1
> European Starling 4
> Blue-winged Warbler 1 same location as last year
> Yellow Warbler 5
> Chestnut-sided Warbler 7
> Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
> Black-and-white Warbler 1
> American Redstart 1
> Ovenbird 2
> Common Yellowthroat 18
> Scarlet Tanager 1
> Savannah Sparrow 1
> Song Sparrow 11
> Swamp Sparrow 1
> Northern Cardinal 1
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
> Indigo Bunting 1
> Bobolink 8
> Red-winged Blackbird 13
> Common Grackle 3
> Baltimore Oriole 2
> American Goldfinch 10
>
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