Recently, I went on an organized bird walk with the Windham County Conservation District called, Birds on the Farm, at the Brattleboro Retreat. This took place in Brattleboro, VT at 7AM. There was a strong turnout - nearly twenty people - many knowledgable 'bird' people. Nevertheless, I learned a lot even though all the bird sightings and bird calls were a bit overwhelming.
We first were taken along the meadows which had a lot of bird activity. This was followed up by walking under the 'cow tunnel' which is basically a floodplain into an open field just above the meadows. You entered this open field via a boardwalk where there were some newly planted fruit trees at the edges of the open space.
As we left the boardwalk and stepped on to the soft turf of the field I could see patches of open water where Canadian geese were gliding by on the surface. I was struck from the distance I was at, of the sizable scale of these birds in relation to the other avian life we were seeing.
This watercolor was painted shortly after this experience. There was a freshness to the new seasonal growth which is their actual habitat and thus, new emerging bird activity.
Mount Wantastiquet, in New Hampshire can be seen in the distance.
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