Yesterday in the early morning twilight while brilliant Venus chased 
bright Jupiter rising above the Green Mountains, with a chorus of frogs 
and a soloist Marsh Wren I visited Brilyea Access in Addison.

The water is being lowered (to repair the dam, I believe).  Some mud 
flats are beginning to show, with a few shore birds taking advantage.

Show stopper, though were three Red Fox kits gleefully frolicking up and 
down a beach, sneaking in and out of the reeds, and bounding after each 
other in rolling play without a care in the world!  The Killdeer and 
Spotted Sandpipers paid them no attention, being busy with their 
breakfasts on the flats.

The list is below,

Ian
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Brilyea Access, Addison, US-VT
Jun 30, 2012 3:57 AM - 6:13 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.4 mile(s)
45 species

Wood Duck  9
Mallard  10
Great Blue Heron  7
Green Heron  1
Osprey  1
Killdeer  26
Spotted Sandpiper  17
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Least Sandpiper  1
Ring-billed Gull  15
Caspian Tern  2
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  7
Barred Owl  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  3
Eastern Wood-Pewee  6
Alder Flycatcher  3
Willow Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  2
Red-eyed Vireo  2
American Crow  9
Common Raven  1
Tree Swallow  35
Barn Swallow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Marsh Wren  6
Wood Thrush  5
American Robin  16
Gray Catbird  9
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  1
Ovenbird  4
Common Yellowthroat  9
Yellow Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  3
Song Sparrow  15
Swamp Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  38
Common Grackle  22
Baltimore Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)