Tom Jiamachello and I investigated all three trailheads for the  
Hinesburg Town Forest today, starting with the two entrances off  
Hayden Hill Road and ending up at the Economou Road entrance. The  
last place was superb! From noon until almost 3:00 on a hot day, the  
woods were full of bird song. I can’t wait to find out what it’s like  
early in the morning. The biggest excitement was a female Cerulean  
Warbler, feeding quietly within 10 feet of us.

If anyone else would like to look for this bird, go to  
www.hinesbury.org/hart.html then scroll down to Hinesburg Town Forest  
for directions and trail map. Go to the end of Economou Road, park,  
go through the metal gate and start walking. You’ll go through  
hardwood forest, an open area with piled-up logs, and a stand of  
white pines (with many trees down, presumably from the December 1  
wind storm). The bird was about half way between a large puddle that  
covers the road and a big birch tree that has fallen across the trail.

Recent posts have noted that the breeding season for Cerulean  
Warblers is over and the birds might even have left the state by now.  
Could this have been this season’s young?

Other warblers on the trail from the Economou trailhead:

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler – at least 6

Blackburnian Warbler – male and female

Pine Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

American Redstart

Ovenbird



Other warblers on walks from the other two trailheads:

Common Yellowthroat

Black-throated Green Warbler



Other birds seen in this extensive forest:

Cooper's Hawk  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Many adults in different places - plus two  
trees with nest holes and noisy young.

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Eastern Phoebe

Blue-headed Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow

Common Raven

Black-capped Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Winter Wrens – at least 2 – They really love all the tangled mess  
left behind by the windstorm!

Veery - several

Hermit Thrush – 1 – silent but kindly posing for us

Wood Thrush  - several, singing even as late as 2:00

American Robin

Cedar Waxwing  - including two bathing in the big puddle

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Scarlet Tanager – great views of one male

Rose-breasted Grosbeak – completely silent!

Red-winged Blackbird

American Goldfinch

Probably Ruby-Crowned Kinglets – heard several times but never seen



This report has been entered in eBird.

Maeve Kim

Jericho Center