Date: 3/24/26 5:44 am From: Charlie La Rosa <charlie.larosa...> Subject: [VTBIRD] siskins, geese
The evening grosbeaks continue to come several times a day here. About 25.
Last week, I noticed a single siskin mixed in with the daily large flock of goldfinches. Over the weekend, there was a small group of siskins. Now the number has grown to nearly equal the number of goldfinches. Twenty on average.
Yesterday on the White River, not far downstream from So. Royalton, there was a large group of Canada geese, probably 1000. Later in the day, the number had dwindled considerably.
Also encountered six red-tails over the course of the day.
A sharp-shinned hawk dismembered a chickadee in the apple tree while a second chickadee remained stone still while hunkered down in a tray feeder and watched the demise of his buddy from only a few feet away.
Other than that, it's been the usual suspects plus a brown creeper. The tom turkeys are taking on their breeding colors. Spring must be getting closer.
Charlie LaRosa So. Washington
If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. - *Henry David Thoreau*
