[CT Birds] CT December Big Day

[Edward Hagen]

On Mon Dec 3, 2007 a CT Big Day was conducted according to ABA Rules by Ed
Hagen, Greg Hanisek, Frank Mantlik and David Tripp Jr. We recorded 104
species, of which 99 were shared by all participants. The list follows.
Those with * were considered good finds and some notes on special birds are
given. Numbers are shown where of some interest.

 

Red-throated loon

Common loon

Pied-billed grebe

Great cormorant

Double-crested cormorant

*American bittern 3 (2 at Hammonasset and 1 at Lordship)

Great blue heron

Black-crowned night-heron imm.

Cackling goose (Durham)

Canada goose

Brant

Mute swan

Wood duck

Gadwall

Eurasian wigeon (I95 exit 30N, first inlet toward Lordship)

American wigeon

Black duck

Mallard

Northern pintail

Green-winged teal

Canvasback

Ring-necked duck

Greater scaup

Lesser scaup

** Harlequin duck (adult male, flyby going east past Meig's Pt)

Surf scoter

Long-tailed duck

Bufflehead

Common goldeneye

Hooded merganser

Red-breasted merganser

Ruddy duck

   Total 24 waterfowl

Northern harrier

Sharp-shinned hawk

Cooper's hawk

Red-shouldered hawk

Red-tailed hawk

Kestrel

Merlin

Peregrine (2 at box under bridge at Bridgeport)

Turkey

Coot

Greater Yellowlegs (6 at same place as European wigeon)

Sanderling

Purple sandpiper (2 at jetty at Meig's Pt)

Dunlin

*Laughing gull ( 1 juvenile at Hammonasset)

*Bonaparte's gull (3 off Meig's Pt)

Ring-billed gull

Herring gull

Great black-backed gull

Rock dove

Mourning dove

Monk parakeet

Great horned owl

Barred owl

Sawwhet owl (White Memorial Foundation)

Belted kingfisher

Red-bellied woodpecker

Downy woodpecker

Hairy woodpecker

Flicker

Blue jay

American crow

Fish crow

Raven (Proto Ave)

Horned lark

**Northern rough-winged swallow (4 at East Shore Park)

Black-capped chickadee

Tufted titmaouse

Red-breasted nuthatch

White-breasted nuthatch

Carolina wren

Golden-crowned kinglet

Robin

Mockingbird

Starling

Cedar waxwing

Yellow-rumped warbler

*Pine warbler (in cedars along entrance road at Hammonasset)

Towhee

Tree sparrow

*Chipping sparrow (2, 1 at Hammonasset and 1 at Transfer station along
Housatonic River north of Caswell Cove)

Song sparrow

Swamp sparrow

White-throated sparrow

White-crowned sparrow (imm at Proto Ave)

Junco

*Lapland longspur (4 at Hammonasset, 3 on field by nature center and 1 in
main parking lot with larks)

*Snow bunting (4 in nature center lot at Hammonasset)

Cardinal

Red-winged blackbird

*Rusty blackbird (about 50 near northwest end of Konold's Pond)

Common grackle

*Boat-tailed grackle (25 near entrance to Sikorsky airport at dusk)

Cowbird

Purple finch

House finch 

** Red crossbill ( 5 at Hammonasset by main parking lot pines, 4 males and 1
female)

Common redpoll (1 at Hammonasset and about 25 at Proto Ave)

Pine siskin

Goldfinch

House sparrow

 

Submitted for our team by Ed Hagen