Wanting to beat the heat of the day and the mosquitos I arrived at the marsh at 5:30 a.m. birding the board walk, Water Street bridge and Marble Street until 9:30 a.m. 40 sp. Wood Duck 1 Mallard 6+ Least Bittern 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 1 Virginia Rail 4+ Sora 1 heard Rock Pigeon 2 Mourning Dove 3+ Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift + Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Northern Flicker 2 Willow Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird + Warbling Vireo 2 Blue Jay + American Crow + Common Raven 1 Tree Swallow + Northern Rough-winged Swallow + Barn Swallow + Black-capped Chickadee 2 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren + Eastern Bluebird 1 Veery 3 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 5 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat + Scarlet Tanager 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Marsh Sparrow + Song Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird + Common Grackle + American Goldfinch + -- Kenneth Cox South Reading, VT http://northernwingsbirder.blogspot.com/