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Today I went to Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT to look for some birds! I was there from about noon to 1:45, and the weather conditions were bright and sunny with some light winds, temperature about 30 degrees.
Immediately when I entered the farm I heard Black-capped Chickadee calls coming from a bush outside of the farm's gift shop. I got closer and counted five individuals hopping/flitting in and around the bush. Occasionally, one would flit down to the ground and would appear to be looking for seeds/other food.
I walked about a quarter mile down the road and took a side trail off to my left that led into some denser tree cover. I immediately heard multiple American Robin calls, and as I moved further into the woods I began to see them gliding from one tree to another, swooping very low to the ground and then increasing their angle of attack to rise sharply up into the next tree, almost like a pendulum swinging.
As I walked further down the trail I heard and observed two White-breasted Nuthatches, one American Crow, and a large group of European Starlings that showed very distinct non-breeding plumage with beautiful speckles. I listened to the Starling's distinctively weird chattering for a while, but couldn't get a great audio recording. I decided to move off-trail into the woods a bit and found myself a place to sit down and try to take some pictures. I was sitting for not even two minutes when something went WHOOSH right by my head, and when I looked up I saw that it was a Pileated Woodpecker that had glided right by me not even five feet away. I watched it maintain that glide for a noticeably longer length of time than the American Robin's did (which makes sense as its wingspan is much larger) and then incline sharply upwards into a tree, take roost, and start pecking. This was a large male with a beautiful bright red crest. I watched him feed for quite a while, taking note of how he moved up and down each tree and between different trees. I got very lucky to have a handful of very different species concentrated in one area, as it made it easy to compare the movements between them. Comparing the similar-yet-different flight patterns of the American Robin and the Pileated Woodpecker really drove home how wing physiology has been adapted for different feeding techniques.