Today eight participants "kicked off" the first month of year twelve of the 
 monthly bird monitoring exercise of the West Rutland marsh.  Forty-one  
species were tallied and one taxa, [Willow/Alder], a set of three flycatchers  
together, that did not reveal their identity by either call or song.  
Of interest and the object of prolonged scrutiny was a Merlin also nice to  
see a Philadelphia Vireo, a bird only recorded at the marsh during fall  
migration.
 
West Rutland  Marsh IBA, Rutland, US-VT
Aug 18, 2012 7:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Protocol:  Traveling
3.7 mile(s)
Comments:     Beginning of the  twelfth year of monthly monitoring.

41 species  (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  6
American Black Duck   1
Mallard  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Red-tailed Hawk   1
Virginia Rail  1     Call.
Mourning Dove   7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Belted Kingfisher  2
Downy  Woodpecker  2
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Merlin  1
Empidonax  sp.  3     Together.  Either Willow or Alder but absent  song or 
call.
Eastern Phoebe  4
Eastern Kingbird  5   Feeding young.
Warbling Vireo  1
Philadelphia  Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  9     Feeding  young.
Blue Jay  14
American Crow  16
Common Raven   2
Barn Swallow  10
Black-capped Chickadee  11
White-breasted  Nuthatch  3
Marsh Wren  1
Veery  2
American Robin   2
Gray Catbird  16
Cedar Waxwing  9
Black-and-white  Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  11
American Redstart   3
Yellow Warbler  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Song  Sparrow  4
Swamp Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal   2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  68
Common  Grackle  6
American Goldfinch  13
House Sparrow   1


Cheers,
Roy Pilcher
The Gables at East Mountain, Rutland,  Vermont

Speaking the same language.