Bennington Lake Wilson's Plover and Clay Colored Sparrow

The Wilson's plover is still at the lake.  We saw it this morning along the little spit in the canal.  It has now been here for nine days, and MANY people have come to see it.  There were fall birds and migrants on our walk this morning.  The white-crowned sparrows are back in good numbers.  The most unusual migrant we saw was a clay-colored sparrow.  Other migrants included Wilson's warblers, yellow-rumped warblers, a Townsend's warbler, both Hammond's and dusky flycatchers, warbling vireos, western tanagers, a Lincoln's sparrow and a red-naped sapsucker.  Summer birds still present were house wrens, chipping sparrows, western wood peewees, gray catbirds, spotted sandpipers and yellow warblers.  There were quite a few Vaux's swifts swooping down on the water as well as barn swallows, violet-green swallows and northern rough-winged swallows.  We saw 46 species today.  Ginger