I love this…my Song Sparrow just sings super loud in between our house and our neighbors garage, it seems amplified. I wish ours would knock, LOL. Thank you Chris!
Caught on Tape: the Song Sparrow strikes again.
video by Chris Woods
Monthly Bird Walk at Missisquoi
This is how Russ enjoys birding on the Stephen Young Marsh Trail. This morning was bright and gorgeous, a bit chilly and the birds were sparse. We had a total of 5 species, but a lovely little flock of 20+ American Tree Sparrows.
We also found this:
Which we think is a muskrat jaw bone. Russ actually took it home to try and clinch the id. I’m going with muskrat, my second guess was rabbit. Not much else left in the area to solve the mystery but some body fat…ewwwww. (See the milky blobs in the upper right corner of the photo below.)
First of the season Fox Sparrows spotted on this weekend’s monthly bird walk at the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Swanton, VT. Bummer you didn’t join me…turns out only Ken, the other walk leader and I showed up! The heavy rains on Friday from the N’oreaster kept people away but not the sparrows. Here’s the eBird report:
Due to the soggy weather, we had just 2 observers on Saturday's walk. We found 16 species and a total of 318 individual birds. New species added to the list this month were Yellow-rumped Warbler and Fox Sparrow. After 8 months of bird monitoring walks, 90 participants have observed 85 species and 1497 individual birds.
Location: MNWR-Old Railroad Passage Observation date: 10/16/10
Canada Goose 12 flyover Northern Harrier 1 flyover Ring-billed Gull 100 flyover; one large, loose flock Mourning Dove 2 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 8 House Wren 1 American Robin 6 European Starling 80 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Fox Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 90 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)
