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 From Frank Mantlik via Charlie Barnard:
10/19 - Westport, Compo Beach -- Possible Pacific Loon.

 From Frank Mantlik, with Charlie Barnard:
10/18 - Stratford, Long Beach -- 4:30pm, 10 NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED
SPARROWS along the marsh side beyond the end of the parking lot.

 From Patrick Dugan via Brian O'Toole:
10/19 - Stamford, Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary -- 6:45 a.m.-8:45
a.m, immature Blue Grosbeak.

 From Patrick Dugan called to report an immature Blue Grosbeak this
morning from 6:45 a.m.-8:45 a.m. at Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary in
Stamford.

 From Mark Szantyr:
10/19 - Ashford, feeders --  flock af about 30 Purple Finches.

 From Ann Orsillo:
10/18 - Goshen, Woodridge Lake area -- 3 White crowned sparrows.

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/18 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 4
Red-breasted Nuthatches, 1 Brown Creeper, 5 White-crowned Sparrows, 41
Purple Finches.
Goshen, Rt. 4 & E. Street South (Kelley's Pond) -- 2 Blue-winged Teal

 From Bev Propen:
10/18 - Orange backyard -- late afternoon, RED BREASTED NUTHATCH at
suet feeder.

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 From Dori Sosensky via Lynn James:
10/15-17 - East Haven, Ora Avenue -- 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 24 immature
and 5 adult White-crowned Sparrows. Numbers are greatest number
counted at one time. I am feeding on the right side in the last
clearing before the left turn to the land fill.

 From Carolyn Cimino:
10/17 - Waterford yard -- 1 BROWN CREEPER

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/17 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 2 WINTER WRENS, 6 immature
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER.

 From  Chris Loscalzo:
10/18 - East Haven, mouth of Farm River -- 3 FORSTER'S TERNS (seen
from kayak).

 From Laura Borhman and Karen Fiske:
10/18 - Durham, CT, Tuttle Road just south of Brewster School -- 7
Black Vultures along the road side about 7:30am.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Marshall:
10/16 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches, 1 White-crowned Sparrow, 19 Purple Finches;

 From: John Marshall:
10/17 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area
8:00-9:00 AM) -- 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 8 Purple Finches, 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 2 White-crowned Sparrows.
S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond, 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm) - 1
American Bittern.

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/17 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) - 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches, 2 Purple Finches.

 From Ann Orsillo"
10/18 - Goshen, Woodridge Lake area -- 3 White crowned Sparrows.

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 From Pat Dufour:
10/17 - East Hampton, feeder -- 4:55 PM, Evening Grossbeak; also
yesterday a Red-breasted Nuthatch.

 From Brian Bielfelt via Brian O'Toole:
10/17 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch -- 3 Evening Grosbeaks fly
over, 4 White-Crowned Sparrows.

 From William Haffey (and birdcraft banders):
10/17- Birdcraft, Fairfield-- RUSTY BLACKBIRD (1st for Birdcraft), 1
BROWN CREEPER.

 From Dave Provencher:
10/17 - Waterford, Millstone Pt -- Light form adult Rough-legged Hawk
flying westward; heard a fly-over Pine Siskin; Purple Finch call notes
were in evidence evertime and everywhere I was outside this morning.

 From Jim and Carol Zipp
10/17 - Hamden backyard and Brooksvale Park --5 White-crowned Sparrows
including one striking adult bird.  Up to 50 Purple Finch with some
singing.  Only a few adult males though.  One Yellow-belly Sapsucker.
2 Lincoln's Sparrows.

 From D Tripp:
10/17 - Canton, RT 44, Shoppes at Farmington Valley -- flyover calling
EVENING GROSBEAK ~ 9:15AM

 From Greg Hanisek
10/17 - Southbury, Crook Horn Road (loop trail) -- crawling with birds
including 4 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, 7 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, PURPLE
FINCHES feeding on box-elder and flying over.

 From Luke Tiller:
10/17 - Westport, Sherwood Island -- 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 2 VESPER
SPARROWS, and about 10 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.
Wilton, Allen's Meadows -- 4 VESPER SPARROWS, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW and
I would estimate 20 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW and 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS

 From Nick Bonomo:
10/17 - Orange, Rte 34 field -- 54 hawks of 8 species in 40 minutes; 1
flyby PINE SISKIN.
Orange yard -- 49 hawks of 8 species in 55 minutes; 1 Red-breasted
Nuthatch.

 From Jayne Amico:
10/17 - Southington yard -- 25 flyover SNOW GEESE, one a dark-phase
adult.

 From Lynn James et al:
10/16 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK.

 From Frank Mantlik:
10/16 - Westport -- Winter Wren;
Brush dump -- 3 White-crowned Sparrows, Winter Wren

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/16 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- (5:00pm) 1 juvenile GREAT
CORMORANT (very uncommon inland).

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/16 - Riverside, Lockwood Road yard -- 3 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS.

 From Angela Dimmitt
10/16 - New Milford /Rte 7 north of Big Y -- 30 +/- BLACK VULTURES
back at roost

 From Dana Campbell:
10/15 - Lighthouse POint Park -- SWAINSON'S THRUSH along the main park
road.

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 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/16 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 1 juvenile GREAT CORMORANT (very
uncommon inland, great comparison with 3 Double-crested Cormorant
pulled out on rocks)
10/16 0 Farmington, Farmington Meadows -- late morning, three swallow
species feeding over a working tractor,  1 CLIFF SWALLOW,  2 NORTHERN
ROUGH-WINGED SWALOW and 20+ TREE SWALLOW.  Also AMERICAN PIPITS.  

 From John Schwarz:
10/16 - Madison, Hammonasset SP -- BROWN CREEPER (2) at end of
Willard's Trail.  NELSON'S?SHARP-TAILED SPARROW (2) in reeds to right
of exit road leading back to Nature Center from Willard's parking
area.

 From Lynn James and company:
10/16 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park Hawkwatch -- morning; a light
phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK.

 From E.J. Raynor:
10/16 - Westport, Sherwood Island State Park, 8:15-9:40am -- 1
Clay-colored Sparrow at new nature center; 1 Vesper Sparrow on lawn
near airplane field parking lot.

 From Charlotte Weston, Stacy Hanks & the Banding Crew:
10/13 - Milford, CT Audubon Coastal Center -- 4 White-Crowned Sparrow,
3 Brown Creeper.

 From Andy  Rzeznikiewicz via Don Morgan:
10/16 - Pomfret, CAS sanctuary -- PROTHONOTARY WARBLER.

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
10/16 - Stratford, River Valley Rd. -- 1 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW at
feeders.
Stratford, Forest Rd. -- 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 3 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS
(2 imm. 1 adult).
Fairfield, CAS Center -- 3 BROWN CREEPER, 3 WINTER WREN, 3 MARSH WREN,
1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 6 PINE SISKIN.
Stratford, Merritt Parkway Exit 53 -- 1 BLACK VULTURE.

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
10/16/07 - Silver Sands SP, 4:00-5:00 PM -- Vesper Sparrow among many
Savannahs in parking lot fields where 6 E. Meadowlarks were flying
around.

 From Patty Scott & banding crew:
10/16 - Fairfield, Birdcraft -- MOURNING WARBLER, GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH.

 From Gina Nichol and Sunrise Birding group:
10/16 - New  Haven, Lighthouse Point -- 4 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS,
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 12 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.

 From Sam Fried:
10/16 - Nod Brook WMA, Simsbury -- many White-crowned Sparrows

 From Dave Provencher:
10/16 - Norwich, along the stretch of power lines behind the
"Village at Briar Hill" condos off Rte 82 -- Lincoln's Sparrow , 6
immature White-crowned Sparrow, 30 Purple Finch (several singing).

 From Patrick Comins:
10/16 - Southbury, Bent of the River -- White-crowned Sparrow at the
feeders, 10++ Purple Finches, 3+ Red-breasted Nuthatches.

 From Karen Fiske:
10/16 - Durham, Tuttle Road -- 5 BLACK VULTURES; 2 were walking by the
side of the road and the other three were perched on the lowest
branches in a tree in a small wooded stretch by the road.

>From Joe Wojtanowski:
10/15 - Poquonock feeder - - PURPLE FINCH.
East Granby - Peak Mountain Hawk Watch - - 2 BLACK VULTURE, 2 COMMON
RAVEN, 2 
EASTERN  MEADOWLARK.
10/16 - Poquonock feeder - - WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW.
 
 From Joe and John Wojtanowski:
10/14 - East Granby, Peak Mountain Hawk Watch -- AMERICAN PIPIT,
AMERICAN WOODCOCK, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, PEREGRINE FALCON.
10/16 - East Granby, Peak Mountain Hawk Watch -- 2 adult GOLDEN EAGLE
at 1032 & 1150.
 
 From Joe and Terry Wojtanowski:
10/16 - Bloomfield, Reservoir # 3 -- adult GOLDEN EAGLE very low at
1545.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Max Ehrman:
10/15 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch, 2 White-crowned Sparrows, 13 Purple Finches

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff:
10/15 - Litchfield, S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond) -- 7
Blue-winged Teal, 6 Virginia Rails, 6 Marsh Wrens, 1 Winter Wren;

 From Brian O'Toole:
10/15 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge -- Pine Siskins, Purple Finches and 3
White-Crowned Sparrows.

 From Carolyn Cimino:
10/15 - East Lyme, Rocky Neck State Park -- 1 adult WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW.

 From Frank Mantlik with Frank Gallo, Patrick & Jim Dugan:
10/14 - Milford, Milford Pt Big Sit -- 101 species (they may have
added one or two more after sunset); GREAT CORMORANT, AMERICAN BITTERN
(2), YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (3), SNOW GOOSE (6), 12 species of
ducks including NORTHERN SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL (3), COMMON EIDER
(1-on plover-nesting bar), BLACK SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER(3), 11
species diurnal raptors, 15 shorebirds including AMERICAN GOLDEN
PLOVER, WHIMBREL, WESTERN SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, CASPIAN
TERN(1-fly by to the west), YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO (out in open and even
down to marsh-edge), MARSH WREN, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, AMERICAN PIPIT, 8
sparrow species including WHITE-CROWNED and SALT MARSH SHARP-TAILED,
BOBOLINK.

 From Luke Tiller:
10/13 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows -- confirmed Gambel's subspecies of
White-crowned Sparrow.

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 From Rollin Tebbetts:
10/15 - Windosor Locks, Bradley Intl Airport -- Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

 From Greg Hanisek et al.:
10/15 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point hawk watch -- a major landbird
fight this morning included: 7 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, 1,600 Tree
Swallows, 35 AMERICAN PIPITS, 1,200 American Robins, 650 Red-winged
Blackbirds, 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, 750 House Finches, 600 PURPLE
FINCHES.  The woods and edges included several BROWN CREEPERS, several
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, Winter Wren.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/14 - Avon, Route 44 -- 3 BLACK VULTURES.
10/15 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 1 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 4
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.

 From Hank Golet:
10/15 - Old Lyme, Lord Cove -- 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS terrorizing tree
swallows that were a little slow getting out of the marsh this cold
morning, 1 WILSON'S SNIPE.

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/15 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 7 immature WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN CREEPER.
Riverside, Twin Lakes Drive yard -- 4 adult & 9 immature WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, PURPLE FINCH.

 From Julian Hough:
10/15 - New Haven, Sea Street, City Point (not far from Long Wharf) --
11 White-crowned Sparrows (all juvs), 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 1 NELSON'S
SHARP-TAILED SPARROW

 From Christopher Lovell:
10/15 - Trunbull, Cricket Lane -- 2 COMMON RAVENS perched, flying and
calling

 From Bev Propen:
10/15 - Orange, backyard feeders -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH, 2 FEMALE
PURPLE FINCHES.

 From Larry Bausher:
10/14 � New Haven, East Rock Park �- 2 COMMON RAVENS.

 From Peary and BK Stafford
10/14 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock -- 8 Species of
sparrow, including 1 Vesper, Lincoln's and at least 20 White-crowned.

 From Cindi Kobak:
10/15 - North Guilford yard -- male PURPLE FINCH  at feeder,
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER at crabapple, BROWN CREEPER.

 From Brian O'Toole:
10/15 - Wilton, Allen's Meadow -- 10+ White-Crowned Sparrows, Vesper
Sparrow, 2 Pine Siskins, many Purple Finches, 2 Yellow-Bellied
Sapsuckers, 5 Eastern Meadowlarks, 10+ Pipits, 3 Black Vultures.

 From Carol Zipp:
10/15 - Hamden, yard & Brooksvale park -- one LINCOLN'S SPARROW
appears to be hanging around (seen over the past couple of weeks as
well as last night and this morning), PURPLE FINCH.

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
10/15 - Stratford, River Valley Rd. -- 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS at
feeders; 1 immature, 1 adult.

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
10/15 - Milford, Silver Sands SP -- 4:15-5:15 along entrance road near
path at bottom of sledding hill, hundreds of sparrows including a
Lincoln's Sparrow on the fencing, a group of 20 White-crowned in the
grass (only 1 adult).

 From Dori Sosensky and Dana Campbell:
10/15 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park, Meadow across from the
Butterfly Garden -- LINCOLN'S SPARROW, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in the
evening light, and two YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS.  Other birds seen
earlier in around the parkmany BROWN CREEPERS, 3 adult WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS.

 From John Marshall:
10/14 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Feeders)
-- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 5 White-crowned Sparrows, 12 Purple
Finches

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/14 - Winchester, 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches;
Barkhamsted, Rt. 318 (Barkhamsted Reservoir as viewed from the Saville
Dam) -- 1 RED-THROATED LOON, 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER;
Rt. 181 (MDC's Lower Greenwoods Recreation Area) -- 1 American
Woodcock, 6 Winter Wrens, 1 White-crowned Sparrow, 7 Rusty Blackbirds;
 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Daren Jacklin & John Eykelhoff:
10/13 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 1
PINE SISKIN, 3 Purple Finches;
(White Memorial's Interpretive Trail) -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
(Litchfield Town Beach) - 20 Rusty Blackbirds;
S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond, 5 p.m. 'til dark) -- 12
Blue-winged Teal, 2 Wilson's Snipe, 3 Rusty Blackbirds;

 From Mike Doyle:
10/13 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Old Sewer
Beds) -- 1 Winter Wren, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 5 White-crowned Sparrows
10/14 - same place -- 5 White-crowned Sparrows

 From Aaron & Sandy Barriger:
10/14 - Madison, Hammonasset SP -- Peregrine Falcon (flying high over
Meigs Point); Eastern Meadowlark (field by Cedar Island trail);
White-crowned Sparrow (Campground)

 From Steve Mayo:
10/14 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park --  4 Peregrine Falcons, 100
Purple Finch, 80 American Pipit, 4 Eastern Meadowlark, 1 Lincoln's
Sparrow.

 From Meredith Sampson w/ Annette Cunniffe:
10/14 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point --  5 immature WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, PURPLE FINCH, 2 BROWN CREEPERS, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, TENNESSEE
WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER (1st fall), YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO.

 From Melissa Baston:
10/14 Cheshire yard - 4 juvenile YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS drumming,
vocalizing, and chasing.

 From Bob Bitondi:
10/14 - Pomfret, yard birds -- 5 Purple Finch, immature White crowned
Sparrow

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 From Phil Henson:
10/13 - Westport, CAS Christmas Tree Farm -- 1 hatch-year BLUE
GROSBEAK continues, along with eight species of sparrow, including 1
VESPER SPARROW.

 From Station 43 Big Sit via Jay Kaplan:
10/14 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- tallied a record 66 species.
Highlights included Common Moorhen and Virginia Rail (both heard
calling before dawn in the marsh); also Blue-winged Teal, Purple
Finch.

 From Dave Provencher, Greg Decker, and Susan Gonzales:
10/14 - Groton, Bluff Point Coastal Reserve -- Fly by Red Crossbill
and Pine Siskin. Also 15 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 50+ PURPLE FINCHES,
and 6 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. 

 From Karen Fiske:
10/14 - Durham, Durham Fairgrounds -- imm. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, 2
EASTERN MEADOWLARKS

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/13 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge -- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
Red-headed Woodpecker, Purple Finch, American Pipit, Rusty Blackbird,
White-crowned Sparrows.

 From Greg Hanisek:
10/14 - Stratford, Long Beach -- 1 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO 10:30 a.m.
somewhat lost out on the dunes.

 From EJ Raynor & Nick Bonomo:
10/14 - Stratford, "top soil" farm on Access Rd -- VESPER SPARROW, 7
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS (2 adult, 5 imm.)

 From Donna Lorello:
10/14 - Branford yard -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Angela Dimmitt with Larry Fischer et al:
10/13 - Lake Waramaug (Kent-Warren-New Preston) -- female LESSER SCAUP

 From Angela Dimmitt:
10/14 - New Preston, Maricostas Preserve on Christian Street off  
Route 202 just north of the traffic light -- several White-crowned
Sparrows, adult and  immature, right in the parking lot.  Also one
Lincoln's Sparrow, Purple Finch, a flock of American Pipits.

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Extralimital Note: CASSIN'S KINGBIRD in Montauk, NY.


 From Luke Tiller:
10/13 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows -- 1 or 2 VESPER SPARROWS, many
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS (no sign of the Gambels type), some PURPLE
FINCHES, 2 dozen AMERICAN PIPITS on the deck (more flying overhead),
and a bizarre looking leucistic junco with a white face and wings that
for a millisecond found me dreaming of discovering a Pied Wagtail or
something equally improbable as it flitted through my peripheral
vision.
Wilton, Schenk's Island -- 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARK, some more PURPLE
FINCHES and 1 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER.

 From Nick Bonomo:
10/13 - Orange, large field on Rte 34 -- adult GOLDEN EAGLE at 1:45pm.

 From Brian O'Toole:
10/13 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- RUSTY BLACKBIRD, RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCH, 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 2 PURPLE
FINCHES.

 From Ted Gilman & co. via Brian O'Toole:
10/13 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch -- immature Red-Headed
Woodpecker.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/13 - South Windsor, Station 43 and Meadows -- 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 3
MARSH WREN, 1 WINTER WREN, 10+ RUSTY BLACKBIRD, 6 AMERICAN PIPIT.

 From Ted Gilman:
10/13 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- WINTER WREN (2), RUSTY BLACKBIRD,
LINCOLN'S SPARROW.

 From Mark Aronson:
10/13 - Madison, East River marshes just north of the I 95 Bridge -- 1
Pectoral Sandpiper (seen from kayak.)

 From Chris Loscalzo:
10/13 - Woodbridge, community gardens -- 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, 5
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW.
Woodbridge, Konold's Pond -- 1 NORTHERN PINTAIL, 1 COMMON RAVEN, 60
WOOD DUCKS (all-time high count).

 From Carolyn Cimino:
10/13 - Madison, Hammonasset SP -- 2-4PM, Willard's Island, 2 imm.
WHITE CROWNED SPARROWS, 1 Brown Creeper, 1 possible CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW.

 From Shari and Val Guarino
10/13 - BERLIN, Timberlin Park, reservoir -- 5 Pectoral Sandpipers, 5
White-rumped Sandpipers (we think), 5 Blue-winged Teal.

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/10 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 4 Blue-winged Teal, 7 Wilson's Snipe.
White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area & Ongley Field) -- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch, 8 Purple Finches.
(Ongley Pond Trail) -- 2 Rusty Blackbirds.
10/11 - Winchester, 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 1
Common Raven, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Purple Finch.
10/12 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch.

 From Jeff Greenwood:
10/11 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) --
12 Purple Finches

 From Mike Doyle:
10/11 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (Bantam Lake's N. Bay) -- 6 SURF
SCOTERS

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff:
10/12 - Litchfield, S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond) -- 2
Blue-winged Teal, 10 Rusty Blackbirds.

 From Mike Doyle & John Eykelhoff:
10/12 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's Pt. Folly) -- 1
Blue-winged Teal, 2 Northern Pintails, 1 Greater Scaup.

 From Marty Swanhall:
10/13 - Woodbury, home feeder -- 1 Red Breasted Nuthatch, 4 male
Purple Finches and 2 female Purple Finches

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/11 - Riverside, Leonard St, private yard -- BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO.

 From ML Dahl:
10/13 - West Cornwall, Coggswell Road feeder -- One Red-breasted 
Nuthatch  (I used to have several pairs who wintered over, but this is
the first one I have seen in over a year.)

 From Roy Harvey:
10/13 - Stratford, platform at end of railroad track trail -- 1
Short-eared Owl.
Stratford, pool at the end of Long Beach Blvd -- 1 Pectoral Sandpiper

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 From Steve Morytko:
10/12 - Ashford, yard -- Red-headed Woodpecker; directions can be
found on CTBirds:

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 From Jerry Connolly:
10/12 - Hammonasset State Park -- NORTHERN GANNET (2), WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW, PURPLE FINCH.

 From Sarah Johnston:
10/12 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 2 NORTHERN SHOVELERS.

 From Hank Golet:
10/12 - Old Lyme, Lord Cove -- kayak paddle this morning produced 3 AM
BITTERNS, 13 FORSTER'S TERNS, SORA RAILS, 3 SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS plus
the regular stuff.
Old Lyme, Buttonball Rd gravel pit -- 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS still
showing

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/12 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 1 adult BONAPARTE'S GULL, 2
NORTHERN SHOVELER.

 From Steve Spector:
10/12 -  Milford, Silver Sands SP, noon-1:00 PM  -- fields near
parking lot: Yellow-billed Cuckoo (late), Eastern Meadowlark with many
Savannah Sparrows.
Milford, CT Aud Coastal Ctr, 2:30 PM -- parking lot observation
platform: while watching 1 adult and 5 juv. Yellow-crowned
Night-Herons (juvs standing on motor boat), something caused
Night-Herons to flush:  35 N-Hs, seemingly all juvs, took off.  All
seemed to be Yewllow-Crowned, but possibly a few Black-crowned mixed
in.

 From Carol Zipp:
10/11 - Hamden Yard -- 1 Adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW.
10/12 - Hamden Yard -- 1 PINE SISKIN at feeder with numerous
goldfinches

 From Judy Moore:
9/12 - Woodbridge�Community Gardens -- 4 BLACK VULTURES, 1 COMMON
RAVEN, 1 White-crowned Sparrow.

 From John Maynard
10/11 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 1 AMERICAN BITTERN in
marsh pools bordering Pebble beach to the north, 9:51 a.m. EASTERN
MEADOW LARK, atop tall pole in area above.
Middlefield -- 3 BLACK VULTURES on ground trying to feed on dead
squashed rabbit on road without being casualties themselves, at Main
Street 150 yards west of junction with Cherry Hill Road, 1:37 p.m.

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/11 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- FORSTER'S TERN.

 From Carolyn Fisher:
10/11 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 2 immature Little
Blue Herons.

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 From Gina Nichol:
10/11 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park (8-9 AM) -- COMMON EIDER
(female), LITTLE BLUE HERON, MARSH WREN, PEREGRINE FALCON.  Common
Eider was on seal hall out rocks at end of Moraine Trail at Meig's  
Point.

 From Edward James Raynor:
10/11 - Westport, CAS Christmas Tree Farm -- 1 hatch-year BLUE
GROSBEAK continues

 From Charlie Barnard
10/11 - Stratford. Long Beach -- Whimbrel

 From Nick Bonomo and E.J. Raynor:
10/11 - Stratford, Stratford Point/Former Gunclub -- 4 White-winged
Scoter 
Stratford, R.E. Michel Access Rd Pool -- 1 first fall Stilt Sandpiper
Stratford, Long Beach -- 1 juvenile Whimbrel
Bridgeport, Pleasure Beach -- 3 White-crowned Sparrow

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/10 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- VESPER SPARROW, 2 BROWN
CREEPERS, 3 immature WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.

 From Greg Hanisek
10/11 - Watertown, Lake Winnemaug (10:30 am) -- 9 male WHITE-WINGED
SCOTERS (nothing yesterday)
Middlebury, Lake Quassapaug -- 10 male WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS (2
yesterday)

 From Jan Collins:
10/11 - Somers, 8:30-10:30 AM -- 2 adult SNOW GEESE in the harvested
corn fields on Four Bridges Road.

 From Jim and Carol Zipp
10/11 - Hamden backyard -- 2 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, 1 adult WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW.

 From Neil Currie:
10/11 - Southbury, Crook Horn Road -- Two Eastern Meadowlarks in field
between athletic fields and horse barn, next to farm market.

 From Jayne Amico:
10/11 -- Southington yard -- At bird feeders one PINE SISKIN, one
immature plumaged WHITE CROWNED SPARROW

 From Carole Donagher:
10/11 - Farmington backyard peanut feeder -- 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

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 From Luke Tiller:
10/10 - Wilton, Allen't Meadow -- adult White-crowned at Allen's
Meadows today which appeared to be the gambelii subspecies of
White-crowned, as it had a distinctly pink bill and the white of the
supercilium went all the way through to the bill instead of being cut
off by a black supraloral area as it is in the leucophrys.

 From Lynn James:
10/10 - Light House Point -- GOLDEN EAGLE, BROWN CREEPER

 From Jack Swatt:
10/09 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 2 NORTHERN SHOVELERS

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
10/09 - Silver Sands State Park, 5:00 PM -- path along fence at back
edge of school, 8 White-crowned Sparrows (all immature).  8 Snow Geese
flyover.

 From Greg Hanisek
10/10 - Middlebury, Lake Quassapaug (10 a.m.) -- 2 WHITE-WINGED
SCOTERS

 From Carl Ekroth:
10/10 - Ellington, Snipsic Lake Rd. -- 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 1
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER.

 From Sam Fried:
10/10 - Bloomfield yard= -- PEREGRINE FALCON flyby.

 From Angela Dimmitt:
10/10 - New Milford feeder -- pair of PURPLE FINCHES

 From John Eykelhoff:
10/09 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's N. Bay) - 1 immature
Little Blue Heron.

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/09 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area &
Ongley Field) -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 19 Purple Finches.
10/09 - Winchester, 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 3
Red-breasted Nuthatches

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/07 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) --
1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, 1 Brown Creeper, 1 Bay-breasted Warbler, 2
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, 1 White-crowned Sparrow

 From Bob Stanowski:
10/07 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 White-crowned
Sparrow, 4 Purple Finches
10/07 - Harwinton, 183 Laurel Rd. (Litchfield Hills Audubon Society's
Kalmia Sanctuary) -- 1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Bob Stanowski:
10/07 - Winchester, 121-130 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) --
1 adult Peregrine Falcon, 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 Common Ravens,
3 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 8 Purple Finches
Old Waterbury Turnpike (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) - 25 Rusty
Blackbirds.

 From John Marshall:
10/07 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches, 7 Purple Finches

 From John Eykelhoff &/or Mike Doyle &/ Bob Stanowski:
10/07 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 1 immature Little Blue Heron, 9 Blue-winged Teal, 2 Solitary
Sandpipers, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 7 Wilson's Snipe

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/08 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) --
2 Common Ravens, 5 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 1 Winter Wren, 9 Purple
Finches.

  From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff, Mike Doyle, Daren Jacklin, 16
Hartford Audubon members, et. al. (all or in part):
10/06 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area, &
Ongley, Activity, & Mill Fields) -- 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches, 1 White-crowned Sparrow, 7 Purple Finches.
White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond) -- 1 immature
Little Blue Heron, 9 Blue-winged Teal, 3 Solitary Sandpipers, 1
Pectoral Sandpiper, 7 Wilson's Snipe, 6 Rusty Blackbirds.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ 14 Hartford Audubon members:
10/06 - Litchfield, S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond) -- 19
Blue-winged Teal, 2 Virginia Rails, 1 American Woodcock, 4 Marsh
Wrens.

 From John Eykelhoff:
10/06 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's Pt. Folly) -- 1
RED-NECKED GREBE

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 From Edward James Raynor:
10/09 - Westport, CAS Christmas Tree Farm -- 1 basic plumage BLUE
GROSBEAK

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/09 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 26 SNOW GEESE (stretched wings
and took off just after first light ), 2 NORTHERN SHOVELER, 1 NORTHERN
PINTAIL.

 From Frank Mantlik:
10/08 - Stratford, Stratford Marina 11am -- 1 adult LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER, 16 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON

 From Gina Nichol and Sunrise Birding group:
10/09 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park (8-11 AM) -- COMMON EIDER
(female), LITTLE BLUE HERON, MARSH WREN, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW,
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW

 From Rick Macsuga, Paul Desjardins:
10/08 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- American Woodcock, Purple Finch,
Pine Siskin, Eastern Meadowlark, Rusty Blackbird, Lincolns Sparrow,
American Pipit (50+) White Crowned Sparrow

 From Greg Hanisek:
10/09 - Middlebury, Lake Quassapaug (11 a.m.) -- 1 RED-THROATED LOON

 From Paul and Douglas Carrier:
10/09 - Colebrook, Colebrook reservoir -- 3 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS,
100+ AMERICAN PIPITS

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/09 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 14 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 4
WOOD DUCKS (rather rare for the point), BROWN CREEPER, BROWN THRASHER,
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.


Migration note:

Brant - various reports over the last several days

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Editor's Note:  I don't always have time to search the internet or
past report archives to figure out what town your favorite park or
pond is when it isn't somewhere I know.  So if you are wondering why
your report is not here, maybe that is the reason.


 From Lynn James:
10/07 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Hawk Watch -- 3 GOLDEN EAGLES two
adult one imm., 3+ American Pipit, several Peregrine Falcons

 From Patrick Dugan & Bill Vanloan via Frank Gallo:
10/08 - Stamford, Cove Island Park, Brush Dump -- 2 Lincoln's
Sparrows, 1 adult and 1 imm White-crowned Sparrow, 2 Yellow-bellied
Sapsuckers, 1 Eastern Meadowlark, 104 Snow Geese, and 3 Common Eiders
flying west at 8:50 a.m.,  1 Philadelphia Vireo

 From Frank Gallo & Patrick Dugan
10/08 - Stamford, Shippan Point sea watch -- 2 Black Scoter, and 5
Surf Scoter (both groups going east), 12 American Pintail flying 
west, 1 Red-throated Loon, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper (rare for
Stamford)
   
 From Frank Gallo:
10/08 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows, Community Gardens, in a.m -- 1 male
Wood Duck, 1 adult and 1 imm. White-crowned Sparrow, 8 Purple Finch.
 
 From Jerry Connolly:
10/08 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW,
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (8), (wood edge to the right of the outhouse
near the entrance to Willard's Island at dusk)

 From Angela Dimmitt
10/08 - New Milford/Sunny Valley Preserve -- 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in
milkweed field to south of Bird Lane.  (Dearth of  sparrows)

 From Marty Swanhall:
10/08 - Woodbury home feeder -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Frank Gallo, Sara DeAngelis & Nye Pichkhadze 
10/08 -  New Canaan, New Canaan Nature Center, late afternoon -- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Ernie Harris:
10/07 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 4 GOLDEN EAGLE, 11 PEREGRINE
FALCON

 From Charlie Barnard and Denise Jernigan:
10/08 - Stratford, Warehouse Pond -- 45 SNOW GEESE flying over 7:30
am.
McKinney NWR (RR tracks path) -- 1 GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, 9:30 am
Stratford Marina -- 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER

 From Hank Golet:
10/08 - Old Lyme, Buttonball Rd, gravel pit -- 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS,
2 DOWITCHER (both looked like Long Billed)

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/08 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- BROWN CREEPER, RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCH, BROWN THRASHER.

 From Greg Hanisek et al.:
10/08 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point hawk watch -- 17 SNOW GEESE, 3
NORTHERN PINTAILS

 From Jayne Amico:
10/08 - Southington yard --- Several PURPLE FINCHES, RED BREASTED
NUTHATCH, YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER

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 From Brian O'Toole:
10/07 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch - 45 Snow Geese, Common
Nighthawk, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Yellow-Bellied
Sapsucker.

 From Danny Williams:
10/07 - Rocky Neck SP, East Lyme -- 1 Clay-colored Sparrow, 2 Rusty
Blackbirds, 1 Bay-breasted Warbler.

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/07 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, 2
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

 From Steve Kotchko:
10/07 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 2
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 2 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS.

 From Larry Nichols, Hartford Audubon Field Trip:
10/07 - Portland, Wangunk Meadows -- morning; 1 PURPLE FINCH
(female), 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, 1COMMON RAVEN( heard), 1 PEREGRINE
FALCON, 1 BOBOLINK, 1 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, 1WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW (adult).

 From Greg Hanisek & Newington Adult Ed class:
10/07 - Milford, Silver Sands S.P. 51 species c 7:45 to 11:30 a.m. --
 WILSON'S SNIPE, flyover AMERICAN PIPITS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
LINCOLN'S SPARROW, c 3 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, BOBOLINK

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
10/07 - Stratford, Forest Rd. -- 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO
Stratford, River Valley Rd. -- 1 male RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH continues
at feeders

 From Mark Aronson:
10/07 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 2 Clay Colored (or
the same bird at both the Meig's Point Nature Center Marsh blind area
and then later at the east beach circle of pines.) and adult White
Crowned Sparrows.
10/06 - Milford, Silver Sands State Park -- Lincoln's Sparrow

 From Aaron Barriger:
10/07 - Meriden, Research Pkwy, Bishops Pond -- 1  female Northern
Pintail

 From Steve Morytko:
10/07 - Ashford, corner of Varga Rd. and Wormwood Hill Rd. -- adult
Red-headed Woodpecker 

 From Diane Tucker:
10/07 - Farmington, Hill-Stead Museum -- Pine Siskins

 From Dennis Varza:
10/07 - Stratford, Stratford, Marina -- 35 (!) Yellow-crowned Night
Herons, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher

 From Paul Carrier:
10/07 - Harwinton yard -- 3 PINE SISKIN on Nyger with Goldfinches
this morning.  Now is the time to put up your thistle feeders!
Harwinton Fair -- flyover: 20 SNOW GEESE

 From Chris Loscalzo:
10/07 - West Haven, Sandy Point -- 3 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 1 VIRGINIA
RAIL

 From Cindi Kobak:
10/07 - North Guilford yard -- YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER


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 From Jay Kaplan:
10/06 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- despite a festival,
female Common Eider, Caspian Tern and three White-crowned Sparrows.

 From Bev Propen:
10/06 - West Haven, Sandy Point, 3PM -- 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER on
far left side of point.

 From Mark Aronson:
10/06 - Milford, Silver Sands State Park -- White-crowned Sparrows, 1
Bobolink, 1 Yellow Bellied Sapsucker (adult), 1 WHIMBREL

 From Carl Ekroth:
10/06 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- 1 SORA, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE, 2-3
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, c. 20 AMERICAN PIPITS, 1 possible VESPER
SPARROW, 1 imm. and 1 adult WHITE CROWNED SPARROW and 2-3 RUSTY
BLACKBIRDS.

 From Jerry Connolly and The Audubon Shop Saturday Birdwalk:
10/06 - Hammonasset State Park -- (2) CASPIAN TERN (end of the
moraine trail), (2) BROWN THRASHER, (4) RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, (2)
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, PURPLE FINCH

 From Paul Cianfaglione (with thanks to Len Kendall):
10/06 - Simsbury, Great Pond State Forest -- 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
(same bird Jamie Meyers found two days ago), 5 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 1
WILSON'S SNIPE, 2 AMERICAN PIPIT.  

 From Greg Hanisek:
10/06 - Waterbury, yard -- Common Raven

 From Gina Nichol, Julian Hough, and Sunrise  Birding Raptor
Workshop:
10/06 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point -- 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS

 From Nick Bonomo:
10/5 - Madison, Bauer Park  AT  7-845am -- imm. LITLLE BLUE HERON,
WILSON'S SNIPE, PEREGRINE FALCON,  2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 3
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, 6 PURPLE FINCHES.
Madison, Hammonasset Beach SP  AT  9-1130am -- AMERICAN PIPIT,
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, 8 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, 2 PURPLE FINCHES.
Old Lyme, Griswold Pt  AT  2pm -- juv. AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER.
Orange yard  AT  6am -- GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and several SWAINSON'S
THRUSHES calling low overhead in foggy conditions.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff:
10/05 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area &
Ongley Field) -- 12 Blue-winged Teal flying over, 4 Red-breasted
Nuthatches, 7 Purple Finches, but no sign of the Clay-colored Sparrow

 From Patti & Rich Clarke:
10/05 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery
Pond) -- 1 immature Little Blue Heron

 From Dana Campbell:
10/05 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW

 From Anna & Roger Eddy and Roy Zartarian:
10/06 - Newington, Churchill Park Nature Trail -- YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER, PURPLE FINCHES

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/06 - Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, BROWN
THRASHER

 From Tammy Eustis
10/06 - Chester -- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 


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**** COA SPARROW WORKSHOP MOVING!!!!

The COA Sparrow Workshop is being moved from Barn Island Wildlife
Management Area to Haley Farm State Park in Groton due to very few
birds at Barn Island.

Directions to Haley Farm State Park:

Take Exit 88 for Rte 117 and turn south at bottom of exit (Turn left
if exiting from Rte 95 Southbound or turn right if exiting from Rte
95 northbound). Go about 1 mile till Rte 117 ends at Rte 1. Turn left
on Rte 1 and go a little under 1 mile to the intersection of Rte 215
(Groton Long Point Road). Turn right onto Rte 215 and go about 0.5
mile and take a right onto the small side street called Brook Street.
Follow Brook Street until it meets Haley Farm Lane, a sharp right
turn. Turn onto Haley Farm Lane and you are there.

**** COA SPARROW WORKSHOP MOVING!!!!


 From Luke Tiller with EJ Raynor:
10/05 - Stratford/Bridgeport, Long Beach/Pleasure Beach -- 2
Peregrine Falcon, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 2 Red Knot, 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Winter Wren,  1
Gray-cheeked Thrush, 1 Swainson's Thrush, 1 Brown Thrasher, 2
American Pipit, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 5 White-crowned Sparrow, 1
Bobolink

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/05 - Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- AMERICAN PIPITS (10),
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH (2)

 From Dave Provencher:
10/05 - Stonington, Barn Island WMA -- Winter Wren, Blackburnian
Warbler 

 From Bill Banks:
10/05 - Orange/Derby Skyview Ter -- 1 Eastern Meadowlark, 6
Bobolinks, 
1 Wilson's Snipe.

 From Hank Golet:
10/5 - Old Lyme Watch Rock -- Two Pectoral Sandpipers on mudflat
briefly this morning.  Yesterday in one of the nearby creeks I spent
a couple hours with an Am Bittern.

 From Peary Stafford and Olaf Soltau:
10/04 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock -- 3 Lincoln's

Sparrows, perhaps 20 Purple Finches
10/05 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock -- Lincoln's 
Sparrow, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrow, Purple Finch

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/05 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 6 BLUE-WINGED TEAL.

 From Carl Ekroth:
10/05 - South Windsor, Vibert Rd & Station 43 -- 1 BLUE WING TEAL, 1
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, 3 PURPLE FINCH at
43 and about 15 at Vibert Rd.

 From Bruce Finnan:
10/05 - Waterbury, Bunker Hill residence -- (3) imm. YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKERS


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 From Ed Hagen:
10/03 - Stratford, Long Beach -- 4 Nelson's Sharp-tailed sparrows and
2 Saltmarsh sharp tailed sparrows.
10/04 - Hammonasset SP - adult little blue heron, 3 saltmarsh
sharp-tailed sparrows

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/04 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial Foundation's Museum
North Lawn & Driveway) -- 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW. Also, 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 22 Purple Finches at the feeders and/or
flying overhead
10/03 -- Winchester, 126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 1
Common Raven
10/02 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/04 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 1 NORTHERN SHOVELER

 From John Eykelhoff:
10/04 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial Foundation's
Cemetery Pond) -- 1 immature Little Blue Heron, 8 Blue-winged Teal, 4
Solitary Sandpipers

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff:
10/02 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 5 Blue-winged Teal, 1 immature Little Blue Heron, 1 Wilson's Snipe,
6 Rusty Blackbirds

 From Cindi Kobak:
10/04 - North Guilford yard -- RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at feeder

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 From Patrick Comins, Sandy Breslin and John Hannan:
10/03 - Southbury, Audubon Center at Bent of the River -- PINE SISKIN,
coming to the feeders, along with 12+ PURPLE FINCHES (Mostly
imm/female type, but one colorful male) and a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

 From Bev Propen:
10/03 - Milford, CAS Coastal Center Marsh -- 10 AM-1PM, 1 JUVENILE
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
Orange, field at Routes 121 & 34 -- 1 CLAY COLORED SPARROW

 From Greg Hanisek:
10/03 - Southbury, Crook Horn Rd -- 4 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 2 PURPLE
FINCHES.  See Greg's message on CTBirds for directions.

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 From From Jamie Meyers:
10/03 - Simsbury, Great Pond SF -- 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, several
Pectoral Sandpipers

 From Hank Golet:
10/03 - Old Lyme, Watch Rock mudflat -- LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER,
PEREGRINE FALCON

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*****  COA Sparrow Identification Workshop!
*****  COA Sparrow Identification Workshop!
*****  COA Sparrow Identification Workshop!

*****  Saturday, October 6, 8-11AM
*****  Barn island Wildlife Management Area
*****  Stonington, CT


 From Aaron Barriger:
10/02 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 9:30 Clay-colored
Sparrow feeding with other sparrows in the parking lot by the bird
blind.  As of 11:00 the bird was still there.  Also had  White-crowned
Sparrow.  Also had a Meadowlark flying back and forth between Meigs
Point parking lot and the marsh.

 From Janet Mehmel:
10/02 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 11:30, CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW.  The bird was near the blind that overlooks the small marsh
between the gravel/grassy area by the nature center and the parking
for Willard's Island.  It was actually at the NE corner of the brush.

 From Nick Bonomo:
10/02 - Orange, field at Rte 34xRte 121 -- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at
4:15pm

 From Gina Nichol and Sunrise Birding walk:
10/02 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point -- 2 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS,
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER

 From Jayne Amico
10/02 - Southington yard -- WINTER WREN, PURPLE FINCH

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 From Paul Carrier:
10/01 - New Hartford, Bakersville swamp -- (morning) 3 RUSTY
BLACKBIRD. 1 VESPER SPARROW, 1 LINCLON'S SPARROW; (evening) SORA,  3
LINCOLN'S SPARROW
Harwinton, feeders -- 3 PINE SISKIN with many many Purple Finch.

 From Jim and Carol Zipp:
10/01 - Hamden yard -- Purple Finch (some singing), a Winter Wren, a
Lincoln's Sparrow.

 From Hugh McQuillan:
10/01 - Salisbury, feeder in yard -- 3 Pine Siskins, 4 Purple Finches

 From From Greg Hanisek et al:
10/01 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 1 Peregrine Falcon, 2
American Pipit, 15 Bobolink, 8 Purple Finch, 

 From Sarah Johnston:
10/01 - Farmington -- YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, juvenile, at suet
feeder.

 From Fran Zygmont:
9/30 - Colebrook, Colebrook Resevoir -- 12 AMERICAN PIPIT, 1 LONGSPUR
(sp.), 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW

 From Andrew Dasinger:
9/30 - Glastonbury, Glastonbury Meadows -- 1 Peregrine Falcon, 1 Sora,
3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Winter Wren, 1
Marsh Wren (in pumpkin field), 80 American Pipit, 2 Connecticut
Warbler, Purple Finch, 9 Bobolink, 10 White-crowned Sparrow, 25
Lincoln's Sparrow

 From Andrew Dasinger, Miley Bull, Bill Asteraides:
9/29 - Glastonbury, Keeney Cove/Point Meadows -- 1 Grasshopper
Sparrow, 4 Lincoln's Sparrow, 2 Rusty Blackbird

 From Steve Mayo:
9/30 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 1 Peregrine Falcon,  2 Com
Raven (unusual), 13 Pine Siskin, 5 Purple Finch, 10 Am Pipit, 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

 From Dave Rosgen:
9/30 - Winchester, 121-130 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 Common Ravens, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches
Rt. 44 & Rugg Brook Rd. (Mad River Flood Control Area) -- 1 Brown
Creeper, 1 Winter Wren, 3 Lincoln's Sparrows, 2 White-crowned
Sparrows, 7 Purple Finches.

 From Bev Propen:
10/01 - Orange yard -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH at suet feeder

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 From Gina Nichol:
9/30 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park  (8-11:30 AM) -- COMMON EIDER
female, 2 LITTLE BLUE HERON, 2 RED-BREASTED  NUTHATCH, 3 BROWN
THRASHER, 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (one adult,  one juvenile)

 From Nancy Eaton:
9/30 - West Hartford (Rte. 44 power-line trail) -- CONNECTICUT
WARBLER, well seen briefly but unfortunately not by others on Hartford
Audubon field trip this morning 

 From Paul Desjardins & gang via Adrian Nichols:
9/30 � Station 43 -� 4 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES

 From Tom & Laura Zawislinski
9/30 - Milford, Milford Point CACC -- 12:15PM,  AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
(winter plumage), observed middle of spit, South side.

 From Charlie Barnard
9/29 - Stratford, RR track trail at McKinney NWR -- WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW and LINCOLN'S SPARROW.  
9/29 - Roosevelt Forest, Stratford -- GRAY-CHEEKED/BICKNELL'S type
thrush and a singing PURPLE FINCH.

 From Florence McBride with Nancy Rosenbaum:
9/30 - Meriden, pond on Research Pkwy -- 1 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 2 PURPLE
FINCH

 From David Lawton:  
9/30 - Bloomfield, Penwood State Park  (6pm) -- YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER

 From Aaron Barriger:
9/30 - Meriden, Research Pkwy -- 2 Blue-winged Teal
Wallingford, Trap Rock Pond -- 19 American Pipits
Middlefield, powerline cut Rt  Rusty Blackbirds

 From Mark Aronson:
9/30 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 3 Yellowbellied Sapsuckers, 1
Browncreeper and a Swainson's Thrush.

 From Judy Moore:
9/30 - Woodbridge, Community Gardens -- 2 LINCOLN'S�SPARROWS, 2
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.

 From Nick Bonomo:
9/30 - Orange, yard --  730-815am, 1 White-crowned Sparrow (imm.), 6
Purple Finches, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches.

 From Brian Bielfelt:
9/30 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge -- 13 Peregrine Falcons

 From Steve Mayo:
9/29 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 9 Peregrine Falcons,  20-30
American Pipit, 5 Purple Finch

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 From Shaun Martin and Richard Trepp
9/29 - Groton, Bluff Point -- 2 Wilson's Warblers, 1 Tennessee
Warbler, 1 Blackburnian Warbler, 5 Gray-cheeked Thrush, 3 Swainson's
Thrush, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 1 Purple Finch, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
Madison, Hammonasset -- 1 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow, 2
White-crowned sparrow, 1 Bonaparte's gull, 1 Little Blue Heron
Stamford, Cove Island -- 2 Lincoln's Sparrows, 1 Marsh Wren

 From Anita Shaffer & Roy Zartarian
9/29 - Newington, Cedar Mountain behind the Humane Society -- 2 PURPLE
FINCHES

 From Jay Kaplan:
9/29 - Canton, Roaring Brook Nature Center -- singing Philadelphia
Vireo, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, 8 warbler species, Purple
Finch

 From Charlie Barnard:
9/29 - Stratford, RR track trail at McKinney NWR -- WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW and LINCOLN'S SPARROW. 
Roosevelt Forest, Stratford -- GRAY-CHEEKED/BICKNELL'S type thrush and
a singing PURPLE FINCH.

 From Aaron Meriden:
9/29 - Meriden, ponds on Research Pkwy -- 12 Blue-winged Teal

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Austin Kurtich (who first spotted it), Carolyn
Kurtich, Bob Stanowski, et. 9 al.:
9/29 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial Foundation's
Little Pond Trail at the first right turn into the Old Sewer Beds) --
1 adult male CONNECTICUT WARBLER skulking under the Honeysuckle bushes
(Pine Island) -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Bob Stanowski & Mike Doyle:
9/29 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial Foundation's
Cemetery Pond) -- 1 immature Little Blue Heron, 1 Blue-winged Teal, 2
Solitary Sandpipers, 3 Wilson's Snipe

 From Dave Rosgen:
9/28 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Old Waterbury Turnpike (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 2 Winter Wrens

 From Bob Stanowski:
9/28 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 1 immature Little Blue Heron, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, 1 Wilson's
Snipe
9/29 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Purple Finch

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 From Charllie Barnard:
9/28 - Stratford, Long Beach -- 9 NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW, 2 RED
KNOT.  The Nelson's were found in a group about 60 or 70 yards past
the western end of the parking lot on the marsh side. They were
feeding on spartina seeds at half tide rising. There may have been 1
alterus in the group,  but the others had features of subvirgatus.

 From Richard Trepp:
9/28 - Stamford, Cove Island Park -- YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BOBOLINK.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/28 -  Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 3 NORTHERN SHOVELER

 From Dana Campbell, etc.:
9/28 - West Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park Hawk Watch -- 16 Peregrine
Falcons, 6 Pine Siskins, 4 Bobolink, 

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 From Angela Dimmitt
9/27 - Bridgewater/Roxbury Botsford Hill -- EASTERN MEADOWLARK

 From Sam Fried:
9/27 - West Hartford, Route 44, Power line cut -- 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/27 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 19 SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPER, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 2 AMERICAN PIPIT.

 From Milan Bull:
8.27 - Milford, Wheeler Refuge -- two hours or so at the top of the
tide; 15 Sora, 2 American Bitterns, 22+ Sharp-tailed Sparrows sp.,
(all fly-bys, most were Saltmarsh, but no positive id on Nelson's),
30+ Marsh Wrens

 From Carl Ekroth:
9/27 - Wallingford, East St --  flyover PEREGRINE FALCON

 From Paul Carrier:
9/27 - Milton, Blue swamp Rd -- 2 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, 1 WINTER WREN,
PHILADELPHIA VERIO, SWAINSON'S THRUSH

 From Julian Hough & Paul Fusco:
9/26 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 6pm; 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS briefly
on the harborside flats 1/2 way out.  BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER briefly
in the swale at the end of the tern-nesting spit.

 From Paul Fusco via Julian Hough:
9/25 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 5 fly-over AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS

 From Marty Swanhall
9/27 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

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 From John Maynard:
9/26 - Middletown, Nature Gardens -- PURPLE FINCH flock feeding in
mature red cedar tree strewn with light-blue cedar berries; also
feeding was a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER (female). Purple finches numbered
at least 14, 12 females and 2 males. There were adults and immatures
seen in each gender.  9:30-10:15 a.m.

 From Stephanie Almeida:
09/26 - Wallingford, North Farms Resevoir - 6 Horned Grebe at 4:30pm

 From Patrick Comins:
9/25-26 - Waterbury -- adult Peregrine Falcon last night, perched atop
the billboard visible from eastbound I-84, just after the Rt. 8
Junction (the one for some hospital with a photo of a woman and her
mother).  Again this morning, I saw a peregrine again atop the
billboard on the way to work again this morning (very tricky to see
the sign from westbound).

 From Kris Johnson & Jan Olesen:
9/26 - Madison, Hammonnasset State Park 5:00-7:00 pm -- GREY-CHEEKED
THRUSH (Cedar Island), Marsh Wren, LITTLE BLUE HERON Meig's Pond

 From Bev Propen:
9/26 - Milford, Milford Point, CAS -- 11AM, 1 JUVENILE YELLOW CROWNED
NIGHT HERON on osprey nest platform.
Orange backyard -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH at suet feeder

 From Joanne and Rich Connors
9/26 - North Haven Backyard -- RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.  Third
successive day that one or more has been at the feeders.

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 From Gina Nichol and Sunrise Birding group:
9/25 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park (8-11 AM AM) -- 2 CASPIAN
TERNS, 5 LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 2 MARSH WRENS, AMERICAN BITTERN

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/25 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 1 BLUE-WINGED TEAL.

 From Jerry Stage:
09/25 -  Somers, Scantic Riparian Area -- 4 female, 2 male PURPLE
FINCHES 

 From Charlotte Weston, Stacy Hanks & the Banding Crew:
9/25 - Milford, CT Audubon Coastal Center  -- 1 Gray-cheeked Thrush

 From Carolyn Cimino:
9/25 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 8 American Pipits
(East Beach parking area), 1 GRAY CHEEKED THRUSH (Cedar Island), 1
LITTLE BLUE HERON (pond  next to Meig's Pt parking area).
Madison, Horse Pond -- 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 3 juv. LITTLE BLUE
HERONS

 From Bev Propen:
9/25 - Orange backyard 5:20PM -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH at suet
feeder.

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 From Frank Mantlik:
9/24 - Groton, Bluff Point S.P., 6:55-11am -- with Denny
Abbott & Terry Bronson -- 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, 3 YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKERS, 15 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 1 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
(photos), 700 warblers of at least 10 species (most were in flight
overhead.  (See the full report on CTBirds.)
9/23 - Madison, Hammonassett Beach S.P. -- 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS (both
in the little marsh near the viewing blind at the rear of the Meig's
Point Nature Center lot), 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON (in the salt pond near
the Meig's Point lot). 

 From Fran Zygmont:
9/23 - Barkhamsted, yard -- 1 PINE SISKIN

 From Paul Cianfaglione w/Brian Toal:
9/24 - West Hartford, Route 44 powerlines -- 4+ PINE SISKIN fly over
and calling, many PURPLE FINCH, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 1 WINTER WREN, 10
species of warbler.

 From Brian Bielfelt:
9/24 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge hawk watch --  fly over calling Pine
Siskin

 From Dana Campbell:
9/23 - West Hartford, Route 44 powerlines -- later than Paul and
company, had YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS.

 From John Maynard
9/23 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 1 AMERICAN BITTERN,
overgrown fenced marsh north of Nature Center, 2:45 p.m., motionless
with bill held high. Bird seen also 9/19.

 From Rollin Tebbetts:
9/23 - Windsor Locks, Bradley Int Airport -- 2 American Pipits

 From Frank Gallo, Jim and Jackie Dugan:
9/23 - Litchfield, White Memorial Foundation, Cemetery Pond -- 1
First-year Little Blue Heron, 8 Solitary Sandpipers, 3 Blue-winged
Teal, 1 Marsh Wren, 1 Black  Vulture. 
Naugatuck, Route 8 -- 2  Common Ravens
Seymour, Route 8 -- 3 Black Vultures

 From Ted Gilman:
9/24 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- WINTER WREN along Byram River near
Discovery Trail bridge

Froom Jayne Amico:
9/24 - Southington yard -- RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

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 From Marcia Hickey with Kris Hamel:
9/23 - Simsbury, Great Pond -- 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Stilt Sandpiper
(juv)

 From Anthony Zemba with Kathleen Hall:
9/23 - Old Lyme, Balck Hall River at Griswold Point -- 1 BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPER, 1 Whimbrel, 1 American Golden Plover

 From Jerry Connolly:
9/23 - Horse Pond, Madison -- 4 LITTLE BLUE HERON (juv.), 3 SOLITARY
SANDPIPERS

 From Sam Fried:
9/23 - Bloomfield Reservoir #3 -- 2 BLACK VULTURES soaring over on
morning thermals, heading south.

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*****
*****    New Haven Migration Festival
*****    Lighthouse Point Park, New Haven
*****    Sunday, 8 AM to 2 PM
***
*** http://ctbirding.org/07migfestschedule.htm
*** http://ctbirding.org/07HawkFestivalpr007.htm
*** http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Parks/ranger/eastshore.asp#hawkWatch
***


 From Paul Cianfaglione w/Tom Sayers:
9/22 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- 1 SORA, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 3
BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 4 PURPLE FINCH.

 From Milan Bull, E.J Raynor and Patrick Comins:
9/21 - Stratford/Bridgeport, Long Beach/Pleasure Beach -- AMERICAN
GOLDEN PLOVER, 2 RED KNOT, BROWN THRASHER, BOAT-TAILED GRACKLES

 From John Marshall:
9/22 - Stratford, Access Rd. pool (across from R.E. Michel) --
6:30-6:50 2 SORAs, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER.
Stratford, Long Beach -- 1 BROWN THRASHER, 4 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT
HERONs. 

 From Luke Tiller and Sunrise Birding Group:
9/22 - Saugatuck Falls Natural Area, Redding -- OLIVE-SIDED
FLYCATCHER, 35+ PURPLE FINCHES 

 From Paul Carrier / Winston Williams:
9/22 -  New Hartford, Nepaug Reservoir -- 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, 1
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, 30+ PURPLE FINCH!

 From Charlotte Weston, Stacy Hanks & the Banding Crew:
9/22 - Milford - CT Audubon Coastal Center -- Yellow-breasted Chat

 From Jim Hunter:
9/22 - Wesport, Earthplace (formerly the Nature Center) -- 4 BLACK
VULTURES - two of there are kids. The adults bred here at Earthplace
this year and all 4 have been in the courtyard drinking and playing in
the pond. These are being seen on a daily basis. 

 From Ray Belding:
9/20 - Torrington, Rt. 272 (Minetto State Park) -- 2 PHILADELPHIA
VIREOS

 From Mike Doyle & John Eykelhoff:
9/20 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 1 immature Little Blue Heron, 1 Solitary Sandpiper

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff:
9/20 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Ongley Field) -- 1
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in with 40 Chipping Sparrows

 From Dave Rosgen & John Eykelhoff:
9/21 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 1 immature Little Blue Heron

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Carolyn & Austin Kurtich, et. al.:
9/22 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Pike Marsh) -- 1
Solitary Sandpiper
(Interpretive Trail) -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 2 Brown Creepers

 From Aaron Barriger:
9/22 - Durham Meadows -- 1 immature Peregrine Falcon, 5 Bobolink

 From Marty Swanhall
9/22 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

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====================================================================
This coming Sunday, September 23 from 8 AM to 2 PM is the Fifth
Annual New Haven Migration Festival.  Hawk watching, a bird walks for
adults and children, bird banding, a falconry demonstration, and a
live raptor show are just part of what is happening.  The COA's
contribution is the Hawk and Songbird Flight Identification Workshop.

More information can be found at these links.

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http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Parks/ranger/eastshore.asp#hawkWatch
====================================================================


 From Charlie Barnard and Penny Solum
9/21 - Stratford. Long Beach - at least 4 NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED
SPARROWS.  All of these birds were of the "Acadian race," subvirgatus.
Each had the washed out yellowish brown color on the face and chest
(kind of like Grey Poupon Dijon mustard), with much gray on the back
and gray streaking on the chest and flanks. 

 From Bill Banks:
9/21 - Seymour -- In my yard at 4:40 PM, juvenile BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO,
moving thru with about 5-6 Blue Jays in same area.

 From Carl Ekroth:
9/21 - South Windsor, Station 43 & Vibert Rd -- 1-2 BROWN THRASHERS, 1
LINCOLN'S SPARROW

 From Dana Campbell and the very happy although somewhat eye-strained
crew at the Point:
9/21 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park hawk watch -- 2 Peregrine Falcon,
one COMMON NIGHTHAWK, one RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, about 100 Bobolink,

 From Jim Voros:
9/21 - Stamford Backyard -- 7am, 1st Red-breasted Nuthatch since Ive
lived in the house (2001).

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 From Sara Zagorski and Brian Toal:
9/20 - Rt. 44 Powerline, West Hartford -- YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
SWAINSON'S THRUSH, PURPLE FINCH, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER

 From Frank Gallo
9/19 - Milford Point, Milford -- 1 Peregrine Falcon diving on outer
bars..  looked like imm female that's been hanging around.  1 Adult
Black Skimmer chasing the Peregrine.

 From Gina  Nichol:
9/20 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park (7-8:30 AM) -- COMMON EIDER
female, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, EASTERN MEADOWLARK, 3 LITTLE BLUE
HERONS, MARSH WREN

 From Len J Kendall with Roger Preston:
9/20 - Simsbury, Great Pond -- 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS

 From Carolyn Cimino:
9/20 - Madison, Hammonassett State Park -- 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS
in the Meigs Pt parking area and 1 adult LITTLE BLUE HERON in the
marsh pond next to the parking area.
Horse Pond -- 2 Solitary Sandpipers, 4 juv. LITTLE BLUE HERONS

 From Chris Loscalzo:
9/20 -  Woodbridge, community gardens -- one adult LINCOLN'S SPARROW.

 From Bill Asteriades:
9/20 - South Glastonbury Back Yard -- 2 COMMON RAVENS (ignoring a
diving Sharp-shinned Hawk.)

 From John Maynard:
9/20 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 1 AMERICAN BITTERN,
naked eye view, posed in middle of fenced-in overgrown marsh north of
Nature Center, 3:30 p.m.; 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS in Nature Center
grassy parking area.

 From Carolyn Cimino:
9/20 - Madison, Hammonasssett SP, Meigs Pt parking area -- 2 AMERICAN
GOLDEN PLOVER, 1 adult LITTLE BLUE HERON
Madison, Horse Pond -- 2 solitary sandpipers, 4 juv. LITTLE BLUE
HERONS

 From Melissa Baston:
9/20 - Cheshire, yard -- 1 female PURPLE FINCH at feeder

 From Jim and Carol Zipp
9/19-20 - Hamden backyard/Brooksvale Park -- Red-breasted Nuthatch,
only the 3rd one we've had in more than 25 years and a yard list of
169 birds!

 From Bev Propen:
9/20 - Orange backyard -- 10:30AM, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches at suet &
sunflower chip feeders.

 From John Triana:
9/20 - Guilford -- a half dozen or so Red-breasted Nuthatches

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Note 1: The eider reported from Hammonasset in recent days has been
determined to be a Common Eider.

Note 2: The second report for the season of RED-CROSSBILLS fits right
in with the recent Winter Finch Forecast.  You don't know about the
Winter Finch Forecast?  You should be reading CTBirds!

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 From Renee Baade:
9/19 - Bridgewater, Botsford Hill hawk watch - 2 fly-over RED
CROSSBILLS, seen and heard calling.

 From Florence McBride
9/18 - Hamden, flying low over Greenway Street by Lake Whitney -- 1
COMMON NIGHTHAWK

 From Lorraine Gundersen:
9/18 - Guilford, Moose Hill Road -- 2 Common Ravens

 From Gina Nichol:
9/19 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park (7-9 AM) -- 2 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER, EASTERN MEADOWLARK, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH,  BROWN
THRASHER, MARSH WREN

 From Stephanie Almeida:
09/19 - Stratford, Marsh behind Sikorsky Airport, across the 
street from factory -- 1 SORA at 1pm.

 From Charlotte Weston and Banding Crew:
9/18 - Milford, CT Audubon Coastal Ctr. -- 1 BROWN THRASHER

 From Shaun Martin:
9/18 - Stamford, Cove Island -- 1 Yellow-breasted Chat
Norwalk, NCC -- 1 Mourning Warbler in woods next to school

 From Meredith Sampson:
9/18 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 4 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO

 From Luke Tiller
9/19 - Redding, Saugatuck Falls Natural Area -- 1 OLIVE-SIDED
FLYCATCHER, 12+ PURPLE FINCHES and 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH (all out on the
Old Field Trail).

 From Bev Propen:
9/19 - Orange backyard -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH continues at suet &
sunflower chip feeder.

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 From Charlie Barnard
9/18 - Stratford, Long Beach -- NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. This
bird was of the race alterus, which is from the James Bay area. 

 From Paul Carrier:
9/18 - Winsted/Torrington, old rt 8 south of MDV -- 18 PURPLE FINCH, 9
species of warbler including 1 MOURNING WARBLER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 1
LINCOLN'S SPARROW.

 From Jerry Connolly:
9/18 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 1 COMMON EIDER
(female) end of moraine trail 6 PM - digiscoped.
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (3) nature center
parking lot 6:45 PM

 From Andrew Dasinger:
9/17 - Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, 2 PM -- 1 Buff-breasted
Sandpiper on the grassy knoll at southeast corner of Nature Center
parking lot

 From Gina Nichol with Sunrise Birding Secret Shorebird walk:
9/18 - Westbrook, Menunketesuck Flats -- LITTLE BLUE HERON

 From Patrick Comins:
9/18 - Southbury, Audubon Center at Bent of the River, 9 AM -- 2
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, also PURPLE FINCHES, including an adult male at
the feeders and a calling RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

 From Jan Collins:
9/17 - Somers yard -- 5PM 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Bev Propen:
9/18 - Orange yard -- 9AM, 1 RED BREASTED NUTTHATCH

 From Sarah Johnston
9/18 - Farmington -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH (female) at suet feeder. 

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Roger Johnson, Jamie Fischer, Keith Cudworth,
Paul Desjardins, & Max Ehrman:
9/17 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) - 8
Black Vultures, 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 6 Red-breasted Nuthatches,
31 Purple Finches

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff & Leo Kulinski:
9/17 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 1 SORA

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 From Arne Rosengren and John Maynard:
9/16-17 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 1 KING EIDER
(female), seen close on Sound side of moraine trail, 10:02 to 10:45
a.m. (9/17)  Seen also 9/16 a.m.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/17 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 5 BLUE-WINGED TEAL.

 From Ted Gilman:
9/16 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- PHILADELPHIA VIREO in orchard,
LINCOLN'S SPARROW, BOBOLINK
9/17 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- RED-BREASTD NUTHATCH

 From Joe Bear:
9/17 - Stamford, Cove Island Park -- 2 Lincoln's Sparrows keeping
company.  They were SW of the pool of water, against the woods edge
just behind the newly planted grove of saplings.  There's a wet
depression there with some bamboo- they were moving around in that at
2:30pm.

 From Angie Smith:
9/16 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW

 From Jayne Amico:
9/17 - Southington yard -- Several male PURPLE FINCHES, RED BREASTED
NUTHATCH

 From Roy Zartarian:
9/17 - Newington, yard -- RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Paul, Carol, and Paul-James Parent:
9/16 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) - 1
Peregrine Falcon, 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 Red-breasted
Nuthatches, 4 Purple Finches

 From Greg Hanisek et al:
9/17 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park hawk watch -- 1 Peregrine
Falcon, 1 WHIMBREL (heading for Sandy Point, calling); 60 Bobolinks; c
10 PURPLE FINCHES

 From Paul Desjardins:
9/17 - S. Windsor, Newbury Rd. (Station  Virginia Rail, 4
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS

 From Luke Tiller and Penny Solum:
9/17 - Lighthouse Point Park, New Haven -- 1 bay BAY-BREASTED WARBLER,
2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES. 

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
9/17 - Milford, Silver Sands State Park, sparrow fields just west of
parking lot, 5:00 PM -- LINCOLN SPARROW with a group of about 25
Savannah and Song Sparrows.

 From Shaun Martin and Richard Trepp
9/16 - Greenwich, Greenwich Audubon Center -- 1 Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

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 From Paul Carrier et al:
9/16 - West Hartland, Booth Hill -- Harford Hawk watch club trip, 3
PINE SISKIN, 1 very possible EVENING GROSBEAK !  Saw bird pass by,
tree level, yellowish chest, white flashes, in wings? - grosbeak
shape, size and flight. - 80% confident...
Also 1 Woodcock.

 From Luke Tiller with Joe Bear, Brian O'Toole and the Greenwich Hawk
watch gang:
9/16 - Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 1 TENNESSEE WARBLER, 2
PHILADELPHIA VIREOS, 4 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES and 3 RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES.

 From Nick Bonomo and multiple observers:
9/16 - Groton, Bluff Point -- ~1000 warblers of 16 species; NORTHERN
SHOVELER, several RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 5 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS, 1
TENNESSEE WARBLER, 3 WILSON'S WARBLERS, several PURPLE FINCHES.

 From Donna Lorello:
9/16 - Branford front yard -- white-winged dove #1 feeding under front
feeders

 From Paul Carrier:
9/15 - Colebrook, Colebrook Reservoir -- 2 juv WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER

 From Tom & Laura Zawislinski
9/16 - Milford, Milford Point CACC -- 11:00AM, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
seen in tidal flats between platform and spit.
 
 From Gary Lemmon:
9/16 - Guilford -- 10AM, Common Raven flying low and slow over I-95
between Exit 59 and 60

 From Robert & Lorraine Gundersen:
9/16 - Guilford yard -- Red-Breasted Nuthatch (2)

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
9/16 - Milford Point -- marsh side, 6 immature Yellow-crowned Night
Heron


Migration note:

First report of:
Golden Crowned Kinglet
White throated Sparrow

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Note:  The Jeager reported from Lighthouse Point Park earlier in the
week has been identified as a juvenile Parasitic.  There is a bit more
information on CTBirds in a message today from Greg Hanisek.


 From E. J. Raynor with Hannah Tetreault:
9/15 - Westport, Burying Hill Beach -- (6:00pm-6:30pm) 1 Whimbrel
foraging in creek next to Sherwood Island's marsh before parking lot;
Lesser Black-backed Gull-1 adult is back but I'n not sure about its  
arrival date. I saw it last year as early as September 7th.
Southport Beach -- 5:50pm, 1 sub-adult Little Blue Heron foraging at
mouth of Sasco Creek

 From Rollin S. Tebbetts:
9/15 - Bradley International Airport -- 16+ AMERICAN  KESTREL

 From Florence McBride:
9/14 - Hamden, Greenway Street by Lake Whitney -- RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCH

 From Marty Swanhall
9/15 - Woodbury, home feeder -- RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH continues

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Note: This is the weekend of a hawk watch festival in Greenwich at
Quaker Ridge.  For more information see the CTBirds post by Bian
O'Toole in the CTBirds archive:

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 From Jack Wells:
9/14 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- Female MISSISSIPPI KITE
(flying low over mansion area heading SW)

 From Dana Campbell:
9/14 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- one EASTERN MEADOWLARK, a
second sighting of a Jaeger flying past the southern breakwater.

 From Greg Hanisek:
9/14 - Naugatuck, Naugatuck State Forest -- Good presence of landbird
migrants this morning c 7:30-8:30. Highlights were 1 SWAINSON'S
THRUSH, 3 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 2 PURPLE
FINCHES.

 From Luke Tiller
9/14 - Redding, Saugatuck Falls -- 25+ Purple Finches, 1 Lincoln's
Sparrow, 1 Bay-breasted Warbler, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch (all the
birds on the Old Field Trail)

 From Paul Carrier:
9/14 - Burlington, Johnycake hawk Watch -- WILSON'S SNIPE, 1 VESPER
SPARROW, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, 3 PURPLE FINCH

 From Nick Bonomo:
9/14 - Stratford, Stratford Marina -- basic-plumaged LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER
Stratford, Long Beach Blvd restoration area -- juv WESTERN SANDPIPER,
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
Milford, Milford Pt -- juv AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, juv WESTERN
SANDPIPER, 2 juv RED KNOT

 From E.J. Raynor and Jay Carlisle:
9/14 - Old Lyme, Griswold Poin -- ( Whimbrel, 1 juf
American Golden-Plover, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 9
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow, 1 Bobolink
Groton, Bluff Point SP -- ( Philadelphia Vireo, 

 From Jayne Amico:
9/14 - Southington yard -- Singing PURPLE FINCH

 From Carl Ekroth:
9/14 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 1 adult LITTLE BLUE HERON at
Meig's Point pond

 From Arthur Shippee:
9/14 - Hamden, Whitneyville, Clifford St. -- 3 COMMON RAVENS flying  
lazily south.

 From John Maynard:
9/14 - Middletown, Brown Street feeder -- 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

 From Stephanie and Duncan Stewart:
9/14 - Vernon, Hansen Dr -- 1 Red-breasted nuthatch, at feeder, and 4
Common Nighthawks passing over head

 From Stephanie Almeida (and the CT DEP and volunteers):
9/12 - Milford, Milford Point (area off of Francis St) -- 2:00pm
American Golden Plover

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For more information on migration activity you should be reading
CTBirds.


 From Patrick Dugan:
9/13 - Stamford, Cove Island Park -- CONNECTICUT WARBLER, CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW

 From Luke Tiller:
9/13 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows -- 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (in the
dogwoods at the far end of the pond behind the DPW fenced off site.
Easiest access to the area was to walk the dried banks of the pond not
the ill defined path that used to lead back there).

 From E.J. Raynor with Nick Bonomo:
9/13 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher,
40 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 2 Swainson's Thrush,  1 probable Cape May
Warbler.

 From Chris Elphick, with Fred Norton and several others:
9/13 - Groton, Bluff Point -- Morning flight (~06:00 to 09:30,
warblers started around 06:20); 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Philadelphia
Vireo, 32++ Red-breasted Nuthatch, 2 Tennessee Warbler, 2 Blackburnian
Warbler, 1 Bay-breasted Warbler, 1 Wilson's Warbler; Probably ~ 1000
warblers, including 18 species, plus lots of other stuff.

 From Paul Carrier, Ken Merrifield:
9/13 - Burlington, Johnnycake Mountain Farm Hawk -- one adult
LINCOLN's SPARROW.

 From Marty Swanhall:
9/13 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one female RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Tim Antanaitis:
9/12 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd, 6-7:45pm -- 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (on
island in warehouse pond), 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER (warehouse pond), 2
BLUE-WINGED TEAL (warehouse pond), 1 AMERICAN PIPIT (near sprinklers
between warehouse pond and mud flats), 4 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS (railroad
trail).
9/11 - Rocky Hill Meadows, 6:30-7pm -- 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
(molting adult in model plane area)

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 From Bill Banks with Dan Barvir and Lyn James:
9/12 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park hawk watch -- dark Jeager,
Possible/Probable Parasitic Jeager that did not hang around.

 From Patrick Comins:
9/12 - Westbrook, Salt Meadow Unit -- YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT.

 From Ralph Amodei
9/12 - East Haven, Trolley Crossing Condos -- 1 juvenile AMERICAN
BITTERN

 From Renee Baade:
9/12 - Bridgewater, Botsford Hill Hawk watch, Bridgewater/Roxbury town
line on Botsford Hill Rd -- adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER

 From Jack Wells:
9/12 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point --  Female GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER

 From From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/11 - New Hartford, Nepaug Reservoir (route  STILT
SANDPIPER.
9/12 -  Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 4 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 2
PECTORAL SANDPIPER.

 From Bev Propen:
9/12 - Milford, CAS Milford Point -- 10AM-12 Noon, 1 JUVENILE YELLOW
CROWNED NIGHT HERON

 From John Schwarz:
9/12 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 3:00 PM, five BAIRD'S
SANDPIPERS, three PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, along with four killdeer. In
the bare portion of the sod field across from where the road makes its
first 90 degree right turn.

 From Brian Bielfelt:
9/12 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge -- 3 Bobolink, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch,
Northern Goshawk 1 (immature)

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Note 1:  Dave Rosgen reported that there was an incident at White
Memorial yesterday involving a naked man approaching a female jogger.
Dave should be posting more information on CTBirds.  If you are going
to be birding up there please be careful.  (For that matter, be
careful anywhere!)


Note 2:
*******
*******  The COA Sparrow Identification Workshopt  
*******  Saturday, October 6, 8-11 A.M.
*******  Barn island Wildlife Management Area
*******  Stonington CT
*******  Leaders: Provencher, Milan Bull, Chris Elphick (tentative)
*******  Free, as always!
*******  
*******  More information will be posted to the COA web site, but
*******  I do not know WHEN it will be posted.
*******  


 From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/11 - New Hartford, Nepaug Reservoir (route  STILT SANDPIPER
(very uncommon inland).
9/11 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 6 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 2
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.
9/10 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 3 SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPER, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPER.

 From Charlie Barnard
9/11 - Bridgeport, Seaside Park -- an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
9/11 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd. grassy area near newest restoration
area -- PECTORAL SANDPIPER and at least 2 WESTERN SANDPIPERS

 From Nick Bonomo:
9/11 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 2 juv RED KNOT, 5 flyby WHIMBREL, 1
'Western' WILLET, 9 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 1 juv WESTERN SANDPIPER, also
1 Greater Scaup

 From Jayne Amico & Melissa Baston:
9/10 - Southington -- Good movement of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at least 100
birds moving along the base of Mount Vernon heading south
9-11 - Bristol -- RED BREASTED NUTHATCH brought into rehab, hit a
window

 From Carolyn Cimino:
9/11 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- in Meig's Pt parking area,
morning: 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS; in marsh adjacent to Meig's Pt parking
area, 2 Little Blue Herons (1 adult, 1 juvenile); in marsh across the
road from the Wetlands Restoration sign, 3 Little Blue Herons (2
juvenile, 1 adult).
Madison, Horse Pond -- afternoon, 6 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS,  all
juveniles with the exception of 1 worn adult; 2 Little Blue Herons,
both juvenile

 From Patrick Dugan via Frank Gallo:
9/10 - Stamford, Cove Island Park -- 1 Marbled Godwit flyby, a first
for Cove.

 From Greg Hanisek:
9/10 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point hawk watch -- 250 Bobolink

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Note 1: Tom Sayers posted this to CTBirds: "Apparently someone lost a
lens cover to their Swarovski binoculars at Rocky Hill Meadows on
Saturday morning on the road just past the blue porta potty.  It has
been hung up on the fenceline on the sod field side of the road where
all the action has been."

Note 2: Ever disatisfied with how detailed posted reports aren't? Join
the discussion over on CTBirds where this is being batted around
today.


 From Brian O'Toole:
9/10 - Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- PARASITIC JAEGER harrassing
Laughing Gulls off bluff
w/Meredith Sampson -- OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER in dead tree near
clambake area

 From Glenn Williams:
9/10 - Mystic yard -- Swainson's Thrush

 From Patrick and Maxson Comins:
9/10 - Meriden Stop and Shop (West end)-- 4 BLACK VULTURES.  They were
flying low over the top of the building like they were coming up from
a roost.  There were also ~10 Turkey Vultures.

 From Patrick Comins:
9/10 - Stratford Access Pool -- 2 STILT SANDPIPERS (juv), 1
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (adult) and a very brief look at a SORA.

 From Patrick Comins, with Anthony Zemba and Dan Hageman:
9/10 - Rocky Hill Meadows -- 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS (juv). in the field
on the left where you make the first right angle turn heading in from
the ferry.  Also quite a few Savannah Sparrows and flyover BOBOLINKS.

 From Julian Hough & Paul Fusco:
9/09 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 5:00pm, 1 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
fly-over, landed and flew off again; 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 WESTERN
WILLETS (and 1 Eastern)

 From John Schwarz:
(/10 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 2:30 PM, juvenile RED KNOT

 From Rick Gedney:
9/09 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows --7:00 AM, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN
PLOVER, 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 4 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER.  Plovers and
Sandpipers in the area where the turf farmers are tilling and
smoothing new fields.
Madison, Hammonasset State Park, Madison -- 9:00 AM, 3 LITTLE BLUE
HERON, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER.
Madison, Horse Pond -- 10:00 AM, 9 SOLITARY SANDPIPER,  8 LITTLE BLUE
HERON (1 adult, 7 imm.)

 From Carolyn Fisher:
9/09 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 6 p.m; American
Bitteren in Meigs Point traffic circle marsh, flew to three different
locations, fairly close look on ground and in flight. 6 American
Golden Plovers in parking area next to this marsh

 From Paul & Douglas Carrier & Ayla:
9/09 - Colebrook, Colebrook reservoir -- By the ever shrinking water
and exposed mud, 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS

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 From Frank Mantlik
9/08 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows (off Rt 7 just north of high school) --
5:30-6:15 pm; NO Blue Grosbeak, 10 Bobolinks, 7 Common Nighthawks
9/09 - Westport, Sherwood Is. S.P. -- 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS
remain 5:15-7pm foraging on the entrance rotary lawn.

 From Patrick Comins, family and others:
9/09 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS
(juv), at least 6 BUFF BREASTED SANDPIPERS, and 4 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS.

 From Julian Hough
9/8 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 4:30-6:00pm, 6 BUFF-BREASTED
SANDS, 3 BAIRD'S SANDS and 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS (juv) continue in
the tilled files opposite the port-o-let.
9/09 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 8:00am-9:00am,m 1 juv. BAIRD'S
SANDPIPER (my 5th of the fall here, so seems to be a good year for
them..?); 2 juv/first-w WESTERN WILLETS, 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 1
Pectoral Sandpipet, 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER (rarely seen here), 3
Northern Shovelers

 From Bill Asteriades and Andrew Dasinger:
9/09 - Milford Point -- 10:00 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER, 1 WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, 2 RED KNOTS
Stratford, Access Rd. pool (across from R.E. Michel) -- 11:00 1 STILT
SANDPIPER, no SORA
Stratford, Long Beach Blvd. Mud Flats at end of road -- 5 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, 3 RED KNOTS, 1 EASTERN WILLET
Stratford, Long Beach Blvd. small pond near warehouse -- 1 BAIRD'S
SANDPIPER
Meriden -- 4 BLACK VULTURES flying over Merritt Parkway 

 From Jan Collins:
9/09 -  West Suffield, Sunrise Park (kayaking) --3 PM, 2 SOLITARY
SANDPIPER.
9/09 - Somers yard feeder --  8 AM, 1 Red-breasted nuthatch.

 From Towny & Mardi Dickinson:
9/08 - Madison, Hammonassett SP -- 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS in  
parking lot down from the Nature Center. Great looks and photographs
2:57- 3:58PM.
9/09 - Westport, Sherwood Island SP -- 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in  
middle of circle. 3:57- 4:21PM.
9/09 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows --  50 Bobolinks, NO Blue Grosbeak
5-6:50PM.

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 From From Paul Cianfaglione w/mob observers:
9/08  Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 5 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 2
AMERICAN-GOLDEN PLOVER, 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER.

 From Roy Harvey with an ever changing accompaniment:
9/08 - Stratford, Access Rd pools (opposite RE Michel) -- juvenile
Sora at around 4:00 and 5:15 at the right end of the reeds on the far
side.  One or two Stilt Sandpipers around almost all day.
Wilton, Allen's Meadow, 7:20-8:50 -- 6+ Bobolinks, 1 Brown Thrasher
in the area of the dirt mounds covered with foxtail grass; no Blue
Grosbeak.

 From Patrick, Tricia and Maxson Comins and several other observers:
9/08 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows, 6:30 PM -- 5 BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPERS, all together close to the road near the porta-potty....
amazing looks.

 From Tom Sayers:
9/08 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 8:10am, at least 4
Buff-breasted Sandpipers, 3 Baird's Sandpipers, and 2 American
Golden-Plovers.

 From Ralph Amodei
9/08 - East Haven over Trolley Crossing Condos -- 2 COMMON RAVENS

 From Jack Swatt:
9/08 - Stratford, Access Rd. pool (across from R.E. Michel) -- 9:00 to
10:00 AM - 6 GLOSSY IBIS, 1 STILT SANDPIPER, Sora was not seen.

 From Mike Moccio via Pat Dugan     
9/08 - Stamford, Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary -- NO Baird's
Sandpiper.

 From Andy Thiede
9/08 - Berlin, at feeders -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch.

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 From Luke Tiller:
9/07 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows -- 1 BLUE GROSBEAK
9/07 - Stratford, Access Rd Pools -- 2 SORA continue, now 2 STILT
SANDPIPERS.

 From Brian Bielfelt:
9/07 - Greenwich -- morning, Clay-colored Sparrow feeding on the lawn
of the white house.  Seed has been put down to try and keep it around.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
9/07 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- 6 PURPLE FINCH (feeding on seeds),
2 VIRGINIA RAIL.

 From Carl Ekroth:
9/07 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 9-10am, 5-6 Buff-breasted
Sandpipers, 1 Baird's Sandpiper

 From Len Kendall with Fred and Donna Nowak:
9/07 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 11am, 2 Buff-breasted
Sandpipers, 1 American Golden Plover

 From Patrick and Maxson Comins with Bill and Denise from Glastonbury
(in one case I'm not sure of the spelling and in the other didn't
catch the last name):
9/07 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS (2
juv, 1 adult), 5 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS.

 From Pat Dugan, Mary Ann O'Leary, Mike and Wanda Moccio:
9/07 - Stamford, Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary -- From 5:30 or before
until dusk, 1 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER in the pond. About 6:30 an
adult CASPIAN  TERN followed by a begging juvenile flew by heading SW.
Stickers are no longer necessary to enter Cove Island  Park.

 From Grace Profatilov:
9/07 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 8am, Buff-breasted Sandpiper,
Baird's Sandpiper

 From Dana Campbell, Sara Zagorski, and Tim Antanaitis:
9/07 - Rocky Hill Meadows -- 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 4 BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPERS, 3 GOLDEN PLOVERS (among them one molting adult male). Seen
between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the harvested turf fields.

 From Tammy Eustis:
9/07 - Old Saybrook, causeway at low tide --  one adult, 2 juvenile
LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 4 juvenile Forster's Terns

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
9/07 - Stratford, Access Rd. pool (across from R.E. Michel), 2:30-3:00
PM (low tide) -- 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 3 Glossy Ibis, 1 Sora

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Extralimital note: Both Say's Phoebe and Yellow-headed Blackbird have
been reported in Massachusets, and excellent reminder of what could be
here and waiting for us to notice.


 From Sara Zagorski:
9/06 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
continues in the same location as yesterday, along with 2
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, seen at 8:20 am.

 From Andrew Dasinger
9/06 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows, at harvested turf area near
portable toilet -- 5 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 4 Baird's Sandpiper

 From Frank Mantlik
9/06 -- Stratford, Access Rd. marshy pool, 8am  -- 1 juvenile STILT
SANDPIPER, 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 1 GLOSSY IBIS
9/06 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd. (very end), Warehouse
marsh flats -- 6 WILLETS (one a "western").
Sikorsky Airport -- B17, B24, and B25 bombers.

 From Eileen and Kevin Finnan:
9/05 and 9/06 -- Goshen yard -- 25 Purple Finches, which are mostly
locals  but with a few passing through as well.

 From Shari and Val Guarino:
9/06 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows --  2 Buff Breasted Sandpipers,
1 Black Bellied Plovers near port-a-potty.

 From Dick and Jean Pierce
9/05 - Madison, Hammonassett Beach S. P. -- two white-phase Little
Blue Herons in marsh west of campground's Beach Road, two
Buff-breasted Sandpipers, grassy part of Meig's Point parking lot.

 From Harry Newman
9/05 - Hammonasset State Park -- 3 LITTLE BLUE HERON, 2 adult and 1
juvenile - in the marsh next to the nature center parking area. 2
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER - in the nature center parking area.

 From Brian Bielfelt with Shaun Martin, Stefan Martin:
9/05 - Greenwich -- evening, Clay-colored Sparrow downhill from the
Quaker Ridge hawk watch.

 From  Brian O'Toole and Tom Baptist via Brian Bielfelt:
9/06 - Greenwich -- 3pm, Clay-colored Sparrow relocated in with a
flock of Chipping Sparrows in the fields and trees between the white
house w/ cedars and the downhill red barn w/ white pines in front.  

 From Maryanne and Dean Rupp:
9/06 - Killingworth, at feeder in our yard -- 2 RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
9/06 - Poquonock yard -- PEREGRINE FALCON heading East toward the CT
River.

 From Meredith Sampson:
9/05 - Stratford, Access Rd. pool (across from R.E. Michel) --
noontime - SORA, GLOSSY IBIS, STILT SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL.

 From Jan Collins:
9/06 - Somers yard  5 PM --  Finally a red breasted nuthatch at my
feeder just in time for my birthday!

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 From Kris Hamel with Trish Julian and Marcia Hickey:
9/05 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- in the evening, 2 BUFF
BREASTED SANDPIPERS, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER

 From Steve Kotchko:
9/05 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 5PM, 3 BUFF BREASTED
SANDPIPERS, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER.  These birds were seen in a torn
up sod field past the blue portable toilet in the meadows.
Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- afternoon, one
LITTLE BLUE HERON preening on a small elevated platforrm in the marsh
east of the kite-flying field near the nature center. Two AMERICAN
GOLDEN PLOVER were also seen in the kite-flying field.

 From Larry Bausher:
9/05 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park, large grassy parking  
lot by Nature Center �- 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS; 
Meig�s Point area marshes -- 2 LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 9:15-10:15 AM.
Could NOT find Buff-breasted Sandpiper.

 From George & Leslie Grant via Jerry Stage:
9/05 - Somers, residence at 87 Pioneer Heights -- WHIP-POOR-WILL
(calling  at 6 AM).

 From Joe Wojtanowski, John Wojtanowski, Dick Haas:
9/05 - East Granby, Peak Mountain Hawkwatch -- COMMON NIGHTHAWK,
COMMON RAVEN, BOBOLINK, BROWN THRASHER.

 From Bev Propen:
9/05 - Milford, CT Audubon Ctr at Milford Pt, 10AM-1PM -- 1 WHITE
RUMPED SANDPIPER

 From Melissa Baston
9/05 - Cheshire, backyard, 7:45 a.m. -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH
vocalizing

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 From Penny Solum:
9/04 - Stratford, Access Road Pond --  Sora continues, viewed at
10:30AM

 From Florence McBride and Debbie Tenney:
9/04 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park, about 11:30-12:10 --
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on the large field at Meig's Point.  
Horse Pond about 12:30 -- 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS.

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
9/04 - East Granby,Peak Mountain Hawkwatch -- DICKCISSEL flyover,
COMMON NIGHTHAWK, 5 BOBOLINK.
Poquonock yard -- 4 COMMON NIGHTHAWK.

 From Carolyn Cimino:
9/04 - Old Lyme, Griswold Point -- 1 WHIMBREL

 From Paul & Douglas Carrier:
9/04 - Colebrook, Colebrook Reservoir -- 3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 2
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.

 From Nick Bonomo:
9/04 - West Haven, Sandy Pt  AT  3:15-4:15p -- adult WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, 2 'Western' WILLETS, adult PEREGRINE FALCON

 From Stacy Hanks:
9/04 - Milford, CT. Audubon Coastal Ctr. -- 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Marty Swanhall
9/04 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one female RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From John Ogren:
9/03 - Old Saybrook, arsh behind the town beaches Rt  LITTLE
BLUE HERONS

 From Patrick and Tricia Comins:
9/03 - Rocky Hill Meadows -- 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS.

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 From Bill & Karen Asteriades, Ernie & Millie Harris and Rick & Jane
Ricci:
9/03 - West Haven, Sandy Point -- HUDSONIAN GODWIT; Godwit was
observed from 11:30 -12:00.  Bird left Sandy Point at noon, flying
northeast.
Stratford, Access Rd pools opposite R.E. Michel Building -- 1 SORA

 From Sara Zagorski
9/03 - Stratford, Access Rd pond -- SORA, seen 3:00 - 3:25 pm, feeding
along back of pond.  Also Solitary Sandpiper.

 From John Schwarz:
9/03 - Hammonasset State Park, Madison 8:30 to 10:30 AM --
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER with two killdeer moving between the island in
Meig's Point traffic loop and the adjacent field, was present entire
two hours and still there when I left; close and easy to observe even
from road. Willard's Island trail - YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER.
Red-breasted Nuthatches (3).

 From Luke Tiller with Joe Bear:
9/03 - Easton, Trout Brook Valley -- 1 COMMON RAVEN (over Bradley Rd
entrance).
Stratford, Access Rd Pools -- 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER (didn't have much
luck or patience with the Sora)
West Haven, Sandy Point -- 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 2 BUFF-BREASTED
SANDPIPERS, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (with about 50+ Black-bellies on
the tern side of the bar), 3 RED KNOTS, 1 FORSTER'S TERN, 1 'WESTERN'
WILLET

 From Tim Antanaitis:
9/03 - Old Lyme, Great Island to Griswold Point, 7:55 am - 3:15 pm --
1 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 1 WHIMBREL, 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 3
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 1 'WESTERN' WILLET.

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
9/02 - Poquonock yard -- 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWK.
9/03 - Poquonock yard -- 24 BOBOLINK flyby group of 14 and 10.

 From Jay Kaplan & Jamie Meyers:
9/03 - Rocky Hill Meadows 7:30 AM -- American Golden Plover, 3
Buff-breasted Sandpiper

 From John Maynard
9/02 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- adult WHIMBREL feeding
in shallow marsh pools abutting Pebble Beach with LITTLE BLUE HERON.

 From Frank Mantlik:
9/02 - Milford Point 3:30-6pm -- 15 WESTERN SANDPIPER

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 From Dave Cadra:
9/02 - Stratford, Access Rd pools opposite R.E. Michel Building -- 1
adult Sora with 1 young Sora

 From Charlie Barnard:
9/02 - Milford, Milford Point, sandbar upon which piping plover nests
-- juvenile BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at about 3PM. 

 From Phil Rusch, Glenn Williams, Chris Elphick, and Fred Norton:
9/02 - Groton, Bluff Point,  hrs -- ~100 warblers of 11
species.  TENNESSEE WARBLER, YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, 20
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, 4 PURPLE FINCH, AND BROWN THRASHER

 From Steve Mayo:
9/01 - New Haven, Yale field (Rt 34) (night ball game) -- 6 Common
Nighthawks 

 From Larry Nichols:
9/01 - Portland Riverfront, evening -- BROWN THRASHER, pair of COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS fly up river. 

 From Marty Swanhall
9/02 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one female RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

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 From Frank Mantik via Charie Barnard:
9/01 - Stratford feeders -- 1 RED CROSSBILL present this morning, as
it was Friday evening.

 From Glenn Williams, Phil Rusch, and Fred Norton:
9/01 - Groton, Bluff Point,  hrs -- ~700 warblers of 9
species, 14 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 1 PURPLE FINCH, 1 BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOO, 1 CUCKOO SP., 6 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, 5 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS

 From Luke Tiller:
9/01 - Westport, Grace Salmon Park -- 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT? - A few
seconds viewing  before it vanished from view in a multiflora rose
bush by the bench with a plaque with the name Geigerich on it on the
left hand side of the park loop. Not  surprisingly we couldn't
relocate it.
Easton, TBV Orchard -- 2 COMMON RAVEN, 4 BOBOLINK.
Milford, CAS Coastal Center -- 12 juvie WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 3
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO.
Stratford, Long Beach Blvd Flats -- 1 'WESTERN' WILLET.
Startford, Access Rd Pool -- 2 BLUE-WINGED TEAL

 From Paul Cianfaglione and 20 HAS participants w/Roy Harvey:
9/01 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows -- 1 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 1
PEREGRINE FALCON.

 From Harry Newman:
9/01 - Kent, along the Housatonic River north of Kent -- JUVENILE
AMERICAN BITTERN, 7 BLACK VULTURES.

 From Charlotte Weston, Stacy Hanks & the Banding Crew:
9/01 - Milford, CT Audubon Coastal Center (Milford Point) -- 1
Mourning Warbler, 1 Alder Flycatcher, 5 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS

 From Bruce Finnan and Kevin Finnan: 
9/01 - Stratford, Warehouse Mudflat and inlet -- (2) juvenile BAIRD'S
SANDPIPERS, (28) BOAT-TAILED GRACKLES 

 From Charlie Barnard:
9/01 - Stratford, the new restoration area behind the newest warehouse
on Long Beach Boulevard -- 1 Western willet with 4 Eastern Willets.

 From Julian Hough:
9/01 - West Haven, Sandy Pt, 6:30am-8am -- 1 Western Willet, 4
Pectoral Sandpipers, fly-by Baird's Sandpiper (from the lagoon area,
headed across towards the Kimberley Ave. bridge).

 From Marty Swanhall:
9/01 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one female RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Joanne Connors:
9/01 - North Haven Backyard -- RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

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 From Linda Mantlik:
8/31 - Stratford, home feeder -- immature RED CROSSBILL visited the
hulled sunflower feeder 5:50pm, accompanied by a goldfinch.  It then
drank from the birdbath.  It returned to the feeder 6:25pm.  Frank
arrived home from work at 6:40, though the crossbill didn't reappear.
Hopefully tomorrow!

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
8/30 - Bloomfield, Reservior # 3 -- 25 BOBOLINK flyby.
East Granby, Peak Mountain Hawkwatch -- 21 BOBOLINK flyby.
Poquonock yard -- 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWK.
 
 From Joe Wojtanowski:
8/31 - East Granby, Peak Mountain Hawkwatch -- 17 BOBOLINK far south
field.
Poquonock yard -- 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWK.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
8/31 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond (entrance to park on left)
-- 1 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER.  Also 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper.

 From Andrew Dasinger:
8/31 - Rocky Hill Meadows, 8 AM -- 2 Pectoral Sandpiper

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
8/31 - Stratford, River Valley Rd. - 1 male RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH
continues

 From Dennis Varza:
8/31 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- High Tide, 12:30-2:30; 1 Red Knot, 4
Western Sandpiper, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper

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 From Shaun Martin:
8/30 - Stratford, Access Pool -- 1 immature Sora
Stratford, Warehouse Grass Field -- 3 Western Sandpipers

 From Dave Rosgen:
8/29 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 1
Common Raven, 4 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 8 Purple Finches
New Hartford, Rt. 202 (MDC's Nepaug Reservoir) -- 2 Solitary
Sandpipers, 8 Common Nighthawks, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 5 Purple
Finches

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
8/30 - Stratford, River Valley Rd. - 1 male RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at
feeders

 From Tim Antanaitis:
8/30 - Windham, Windham Airport dike, 5:30-7:45 pm -- 1 adult BAIRD'S
SANDPIPER, 1 juvenile SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, 2
COMMON NIGHTHAWKS
8/30 - West Haven, Sandy Point -- juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER

 From Corrie Folsom:
8/30 - Meriden yard -- Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Bruce Finnan:
8/30 = Waterbury, East Mountain reservoir -- Solitary Sandpiper 

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 From Carolyn Cimino:
8/28 - Old Lyme, Watch Rock -- 1 TRICOLORED HERON

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
8/29 - Hartford, Cedar Hill Cemetery -- 2 PURPLE FINCHES, 2 COMMON
RAVENS, 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPER.

 From Brian O'Toole & Brian Bielfelt:
8/29 - Greenwich, Greenwich, Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch -- 2 Purple
Finches

 From Frank Mantlik, with Buzz Devine:
8/29 - West Haven, Sandy Point -- present about 10:45am-12:30pm, 1
adult BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 2 WILLETS (at least one "western"), 1 RED
KNOT, 1 OR 2 FORSTER'S TERNS, 1 adult ROSEATE TERN.  Also among the 12
species of shorebirds was 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER, which was very weak,
had a wound on it's chest/belly, and which eventually expired in the
incoming tide at our feet.

 From Ken Goldsmith:
8/28 - Woodstock -- 20+ Common Nighthawks 

 From Darryl Rathbun:
8/28 - Stratford, Access Road pools -- 4 GLOSSY IBIS

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