The 5/15 GMC bird walk had to be postponed because – no surprise this spring! – it was pouring rain.

On 5/22, five of us walked the trails at Crane Brook Conservation Area in Underhill Center. Everyone got great looks at a singing and calling Veery, both male and female Common Yellowthroats, and a glorious singing Black-Throated Green Warbler.

We all listened in amazement to the long, trilling song of the tiny Winter Wren.

Other birds heard or seen:

• Male Indigo Bunting,
• Mourning Doves,
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
• Red-eyed Vireo,
• American Crow,
• Black-capped Chickadee,
• Tufted Titmouse,
• Red-breasted Nuthatch,
• Brown Creeper, Wood Thrush,
• American Robin.
• Chestnut-sided Warbler,
• Black-and-white Warbler,
• American Redstart,
• Ovenbirds,
• Song Sparrow,
• Common Grackle,
• American Goldfinch.

Participants were Maeve (leader), Karl, Jean, Doug and Mary.