Despite the warm weather, leaves are just coming out around Lefferts Pond. The Black-throated Blue Warblers are claiming their usual spots. Hermit Thrushes and Juncoes were investigating nesting spots.
 
An early Swainson's Thrush was near one of the dams, taking a dip. 
   
Lefferts Pond - Chittenden (55 acres), Rutland, US-VT
May 6, 2013 8:15 AM - 12:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
35 species

Canada Goose  6
Wood Duck  2
Mallard  14
Hooded Merganser  4
Common Merganser  5
Great Blue Heron  2
Broad-winged Hawk  2    (circling together overhead and calling)
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Barred Owl (after hunting time and from direction where hunters are not likely to be)
Mourning Dove  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Blue-headed Vireo  5
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Brown Creeper  2
Winter Wren  2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Swainson's Thrush  1     (saw buffy eye ring; breast spots not prominent as in Hermit Thrush; no reddish tail; photo)
Hermit Thrush  3
American Robin  2
Ovenbird  3
Northern Waterthrush  2
Nashville Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  5
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  12     
Blackburnian Warbler   1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  3
Swamp Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  2
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  4
Purple Finch  3

Sue and Marv Elliott, Sue Wetmore, Tracey and Millie Busony