Hi, There seems to be Willow Ptarmigan in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. It would be interesting if it could be determined as the same bird as we had seen in NY last month.
Of the other bird notes at East Hill, a Raven was being constantly attacked by an American Crow for about five minutes, though Raven tried variety of techniques to avoid the crow. Later I went to Sapsucker Woods. I saw a few warblers but most interesting was the sighting of American Bittern near Sherwood platform marsh. The bittern seemed to be so very confident of its camouflage that it ignored me. I saw it getting interested in something in the water as it slowly put its head towards it goal, I knew it was on to something. Shortly, it caught a golden fish and turned it around such that its head went in first and gulped it. After gulping I could see the fish's passage through its gullet. Then I went to look for the Barred Owl, which was photographed a few minutes earlier by my colleague. By the time I went there, the owl had moved to some other location. But still it was a great place as I saw beautiful Scarlet Tanager, three Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, which were going to a fork in the tree and probably getting something like ants or some kind of insects. I could not see what they were eating as a branch covered the location for me. Also there was a Veery feeding on another noctuid caterpillar. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
