It had been exactly 1 week since I last visited Delta Park. There were no 
Goose hunters this morning and some shorebirds were taking advantage of it.
The water level is back almost to the low point that it had been, making it an 
easy walk out there with regular shoes on. My complete list:

Delta Park, Colchester, Chittenden, US-VT
Sep 13, 2012 6:47 AM - 8:38 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.75 mile(s)
28 species

Canada Goose  265
Wood Duck  20
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  9
Green-winged Teal  2
Common Merganser  41
Common Loon  1     flying south
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  6     2 on a sandbar, the other 4 flying by.
Sanderling  16
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Dunlin  1     A nonbreeding bird hanging with the Sanderlings.
Ring-billed Gull  15
Herring Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Common Tern  9     flying south but not too far out
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
American Crow  7
Black-capped Chickadee  11
White-breasted Nuthatch  3
Common Yellowthroat  1
Palm Warbler (Western)  5
Northern Cardinal  1
Bobolink  16     All in one group flying around and dropping into grassy areas.

Enjoy Birds,

Jim Mead