Director Erin Talmage led the monthly Bird Monitoring Walk, These results are also recorded with eBird.
Birds of Vermont Museum, Chittenden, US-VT Jun 28, 2014 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 kilometer(s) Comments: Monitoring walk led by Erin Talmage 24 species American Bittern 1 Flushed it near the pond; it flew to picnic table area and remained there until we had walked behind the grove of shrubs and trees above the pond, at which time it flew back down to the pond. Ring-billed Gull 1 Mourning Dove 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue-headed Vireo 0 Observed that nest was again unoccupied. Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 10 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 4 two nesting boxes occupied. Winter Wren 1 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 2 Ovenbird 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Scarlet Tanager 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Foraging in low shrubs overlooking back part of pond Indigo Bunting 1 Observed singing near pond Common Grackle 3 American Goldfinch 3 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18932432 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)