Date: 8/29/25 1:56 pm From: Jeanne Elias <moosewoman...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Newly designated Ebird Hot Spot: https://www.cemetery.eco/
Hi Diane: I share Ali Wagner’s enthusiasm. The Mad Birders have already begun to explore this location! The Vermont Forest Cemetery is within our Audubon Winter Bird Count circle. For the past two years our Roxbury Sector Team has visited the property in December and inventoried the birds found there. It would be great to have a Mad Birder Walk there in the Spring. I suspect it will be filled with Warblers in May!
Jeannie Elias
> On Aug 29, 2025, at 6:05 AM, Diane Brown <deejbrown...> wrote:
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> I am posting this on behalf of Michelle Acciavatti, MS:
>
> Come visit Vermont Forest Cemetery, nestled in the Green Mountains above
> Roxbury, to walk the grounds and observe this year's migration!
>
> VFC is the state's first natural burial cemetery and there are 10 acres of
> mixed hardwood forest with trails currently open to the public. Part of our
> mission is conservation, and we are eager to learn about our bird
> population and how we can best support it.
>
> The White River Natural Resources Conservation District also supports the
> cemetery, and the forest is being stewarded in part by a Cooperator from VT
> Woodlands for Wildlife. We encourage visitors to continue to add their
> birding findings on iNaturalist and Merlin to help us develop our species
> index for this beautiful forest.
>
> VFC is open every day from dawn to dusk.
> Diane Brown
> Middlebury
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> *And this, your life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees,
> books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.*
> William Shakespeare
