The first baltimore oriole of the year (*) showed up on Texas Hill Road in 
Hinesburg on 5/5, though was first heard out and about on 5/3. The fifth also 
yielded the first rose-breasted and evening grosbeaks, a chipping sparrow, and 
the first loudly calling white-breasted nuthatch around the 
wetland/meadow/forest ecotones in the area. On 5/9, FOY warbling vireos and 
yellow warblers showed up. On 5/10, I happened upon a waterthrush 
(unidentified to species) near the beaver pond blind at the Audubon center 
down the road in Huntington. Later, near the Charlotte border, I spotted a 
white-crowned sparrow along the roadside.

recent sightings:
canada goose
mallard
wood duck
american crow
blue jay
red-winged blackbird
common grackle
tree swallow
mourning dove
hairy woodpecker
downy woodpecker
common flicker
white-breasted nuthatch*
eastern pheobe
american robin
black-capped chickadee
white-crowned sparrow*
song sparrow
chipping sparrow*
rose-breasted grosbeak*
northern cardinal
warbling vireo*
an ambiguous waterthrush*
yellow warbler*
evening grosbeak*
american goldfinch
baltimore oriole*
european starling

Ethan