As Roy Pilcher reported the other day, the loon family at Kent Pond is down to one young. We also heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo near the dam. In all we totaled 21 species. Further along the Appalachian Trail, we heard or saw 23 species including numerous Winter Wrens.
Kent Pond:
21 species
Mallard 17
Common Loon 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
American Crow 2
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 1
American Robin 2
Cedar Waxwing 9
Ovenbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 3
Scarlet Tanager 1
Common Grackle 1
American Goldfinch 1
AT between upper end of Thundering Brook Road and lower end:
23 species
Ruffed Grouse 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 1
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 7
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 3
Winter Wren 5 all singing!
Veery 1
Hermit Thrush 4
American Robin 2
Ovenbird 5
American Redstart 2
Blackburnian Warbler 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
White-throated Sparrow 2
American Goldfinch 1
http://rutlandcountyaudubon.org/kentpond/
Sue and Marv Elliott, Tracey Busony
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