Bird Watching 5/21

Location: Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, VT
Time: 6:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Weather: Sunny, hardly any clouds, 65 °F, no wind.
Habitat: To get to the opening of the trail, I had to walk through a grassland (roughly 3 acres). The trail followed through two streams until the streams finally converged. There were very little coniferous trees (most of the coniferous trees were pines). It was mainly deciduous trees and ferns. Some of the deciduous trees I saw were oaks (presumably swamp white oak), silver maples, shagbark hickories, and others. The main fern present in the under-story was ostrich fern. There was also raspberry bushes, poison-ivy, and other unidentified shrubs.
Birds Spotted: 10 American robins, 7 song sparrows, 5 red-winged blackbirds, 1 white-breasted nuthatch, 6 downy woodpeckers, 3 Canada geese, 1 dark-eyed junco, 6 great crested flycatchers, 2 unidentified woodpeckers (I only heard the drumming), 5 eastern phoebes, 1 eastern wood-pewee, 2 great blue herons, 2 broad-winged hawks, 9 tree swallows, 3 northern waterthrushes, 1 mourning dove, 1 Baltimore oriole, 3 scarlet tanagers, 3 American redstarts, 1 blue-headed vireo, 1 blue jay, and 4 gray catbirds.

Posted on May 21, 2020 11:58 PM by dannybouwens