Blustery winds and gray skies led to a quiet beginning during a visit to 
Whitney/Hospital Creek WMA in Addison this morning by Ron Payne and me.  
Punctuated by a fifteen minute flurry of warblers and sparrows at the 
northeast end of the trail, plus migrant flocks of Robins and Blue Jays, 
the list of species grew slowly.  Eeerily, both Whitney and Hospital 
Creeks were completely devoid of birds except for two Wood Ducks and a 
solitary Great Blue Heron, their mud bottoms mostly exposed due to low 
Lake Champlain waterlevels ... and mostly grown in with aquatic plants.

Excellent views of a well appointed Lincoln's Sparrow close at hand, the 
song of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and the sighting of two Bay-breasted 
Warblers were especial treats.

Ian
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Whitney Creek, Addison, US-VT
Sep 22, 2012 6:25 AM - 9:49 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.9 mile(s)
Comments:     Ron Payne, Ian Worley
38 species

Wood Duck  8
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  1
Bald Eagle  2
Killdeer  1
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  1
Mourning Dove  1
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker  4
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  74     Included migrating flocks of 14 and 44.
American Crow  5
Common Raven  1
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  97     Flocks of 48, 17, 13, 10, and 9
Gray Catbird  7
European Starling  20
Cedar Waxwing  1
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  3
American Redstart  1
Magnolia Warbler  2
Bay-breasted Warbler  2
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  4
Song Sparrow  7
Lincoln's Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  21     Two separate flocks moving back and forth 
between corn field and field edge thickets.
Scarlet Tanager  2
Northern Cardinal  4
American Goldfinch  16