Pieter Van Shaik on the Rookery Walk during the CCCA Trail Hike on August 11th 2019.
2020 marked the 4th Spring Bird Walk with the Audubon Society.
Below is a list of some of the birds we saw on the walk.
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Ruffed Grouse
Mourning Dove
Mallards
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Yellow bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black Capped Chickadee
Tree Swallow
Red breasted and White breasted Nuthatch
House wren
European Starling
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Chipping Sparrow
White Throated Sparrow. Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Ovenbird
Black and White Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Yellow rumped Warbler
Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
photo by Hans Schrag
Link to Cavendish Branch of Mount Ascutney Audubon Society
Sunday May 28th at 8 am.
Join Marianne and Michael Walsh of the Mount Ascutney Audubon Bird Association and Eric Krasnauskas of the Cavendish Trail Association for a bird walk on the Hardy Hill Trail. The walk is of moderate difficulty and moderately steep slopes. We will meet at the trail head where there is plenty of parking. Limited to 12 people so please contact Robin if you would like to join us by phone #802-2592327, or by email robintimko@tds.net.
PHOTOGRAPHING WILDLIFE
On February 10th Tim O'Donogue gave a wonderful presentation on photographing wildlife. The event was held at our Fletcher Community Library in Cavendish and Amy, the Librarian provided Tate's Cookies!
Tim is looking into offering another tour of the woodlands around a beaver pond where wildlife activity abounds. We will keep you posted.
Mount Ascutney Audubon Chapter
OUR MISSION
To promote enjoyment, appreciation, and conservation of nature through education, habitat protection, and advocacy for the benefit of our communities and all living things.
WHO WE ARE
AMAS is made up of individuals with a shared interest in the environment and a passion for preserving what is best about our communities: our closeness to and interaction with nature.
WHAT WE DO
As a local chapter of Audubon, we help support initiatives that are important to the conservation of birds, other wildlife, and their habitat.
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