I'm wondering if its the same Least Bittern I saw a couple of months
ago and if it might try to nest there, hard to tell if there is more
than one there cause you can't see the marsh too well. Saw it fly
three times while I was there. Also saw a Virginia Rail that I left
out of the report at Delta Park (~10ft away, photographed).
Location
Location name: Delta Park IBA - Colchester - Winooski Valley Park
District
Date & Effort
Observation type: Traveling Count
Observation date: 5/29/09 Distance covered: 1.0 mile(s)
Start time: 6:15 PM Area covered: N/A
Duration: 1 hour(s) 45 minute(s) Elevation: N/A
Number of people in party: 3 (Mike, Autumn, and I)
Species
4 Canada Goose
1 American Black Duck
2 Mallard
1 Double-crested Cormorant
1 LEAST BITTERN
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
1 Osprey
1 Greater Yellowlegs
7 Short-billed Dowitcher (Photographed)
2 Ring-billed Gull
3 Caspian Tern (Photographed)
1 Belted Kingfisher
3 Warbling Vireo
1 American Crow
4 Tree Swallow
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Marsh Wren
1 American Robin
2 European Starling
1 Cedar Waxwing
2 American Redstart
3 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
20 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Common Grackle
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 Baltimore Oriole
2 American Goldfinch
Total species reported: 31
Are you submitting a complete checklist of the birds you saw/heard? Yes
Location
Location name: Colchester Town Park???? (off of the beltway just
before Colchester on the left, but past ethan allen)
Date & Effort
Observation type: Traveling Count
Observation date: 5/29/09 Distance covered: 1.0 mile(s)
Start time: 8:00 PM Area covered: N/A
Duration: 0 hour(s) 20 minute(s) Elevation: N/A
Number of people in party: 1
Species
1 American Bittern
2 Ring-billed Gull
1 Herring Gull (American)
4 COMMON NIGHTHAWK
3 Common Yellowthroat
1 Catbird
Total species reported: 5
Are you submitting a complete checklist of the birds you saw/heard? Yes
Thomas Ford-Hutchinson
Burlington, VT
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