Ompompanoosuc area  

Kendall Station area

 

The Ompompanoosuc area is a small, easily walked site that included the Ompompanoosuc River, Old Bridge Road, the boat launch, Kendal Station Road, and the RR tracks that parallel Kendal Station Road. It is at the junction of Routes 5 and 132.

View from Pompy Boat Launch

 

This area is sometimes called Pompy Flats.

View from Kendall Station

 

A scope is needed for most ducks in the Ompompanoosuc River.  But elsewhere you might get closer-in view.

Some of the species you might find include the following, although the grebe and gallinule were rarities.

American Crow with Red-tailed Hawk

 

American Robin

 

American Tree Sparrow

 

Bald Eagle

 

Baltimore Oriole

 

Brown Thrasher

 

Canada Geese family

 

Carolina Wren

 

Cedar Waxwing

 

Cedar Waxwing juvenile

 

Common Gallinule

 

Common Grackle

 

Common Merganser

 

Common Merganser

 

Common Merganser pair

 

Common Yellowthroat

 

Eastern Phoebe

 

European Starling

 

Gray Catbird 

 

Great Blue Heron

 

Great Blue Heron

 

Great Egret

 

Green Heron

 

Horned Grebe

 

Hooded Merganser

 

Hooded Merganser

 

Magnolia Warbler

 

Magnolia Warbler

 

Mallards

 

Northern Flicker  

 

Osprey

 

Osprey

 

Palm Warbler

 

Palm Warbler

 

Red-tailed Hawk with Crow

 

Red-winged Blackbird

 

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

 

Sharp-shinned Hawk

 

 

Swamp Sparrow

 

Song Sparrow

 

White-throated Sparrow

 

Wood Ducks

 

Wood Duck

 

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

 

Yellow-rumped Warbler

 

Yellow-rumped Warbler

 

Greater Yellowlegs
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