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Common Nighthawks had been congregating in large flocks each evening during this past week's sunny muggy weather, down in in the southeastern town of Westminster. Tonight was the first evening I'd had the opportunity to get down to that part of the state, but the weather had changed, and the Nighthawks were not mine to be had.

But I did take the opportunity to explore the nearby town of Dummerston, seeking an area for my 'official' birding location. Eventually, I settled on the Dummerston...

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Most people associate Middlebury with the massive marble buildings of the college campus, or the bustling shire-town with its shops and narrow streets; or perhaps they think of the miserable traffic trying to wind its way thru and around the poorly-designed road network of Middlebury. I am like all of those people too, but I knew if I was going to have an interesting bird report for this Town, I would have to look elsewhere. Fortunately, there's a covered bridge on the south side of the town,...

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I'm thoroughly enjoying my quest to visit every town in the state. Many of these towns are very small in population, but some contain historical gems.

Brookfield is located in Windham County, in southeastern Vermont. It's a long, narrow town and has only one main road, which runs from Newfane in the south to Athens at the north. Roughly midway thru this town-with-no-side-roads is the town office which offers the only parking area, and opposite it is the unique Round Schoolhouse....

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I stumbled onto a real gem last weekend, when I walked thru Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland Town. Evergreen straddles the line between my hometown - Rutland City - and the surrounding Rutland Town; the trees visible from the road had always intrigued me, but I had never ventured in to explore. So I decided to make it my 251 Town Birder site for Rutland Town, and see what lay within. I was not disappointed.

Most cemeteries - both early and modern - are designed to maximize the number...

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Every once in a while a bird comes thru the area who makes everyone sit up and take notice. They then put the eBird report location into their TomTom nav unit, and take off right after work... or take the day off altogether.

In the last year I've had the privilege of seeing a Harris's Sparrow in Norwich VT, an American Avocet who was blown into Seabrook NH, a Cape May Warbler who over-wintered in Portsmouth NH, and a Northern Gannet who was dropped 100 miles inland by Tropical...

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