The State of Vermont (USA) has 251 towns and cities, and 4 unchartered gores. I've set myself the goal of birding in each and every one, and to submit an observation report to the Vermont eBird database (
http://ebird.org/content/vt).
In this blog I'll recap where I've birded and the highlights (including occasional photos) of what I've seen.
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Posted Saturday 18th August 2012 at 02:58 by bheitzman
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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Posted Saturday 18th August 2012 at 02:19 by bheitzman
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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Posted Saturday 18th August 2012 at 01:37 by bheitzman
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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