[CT Birds] CT December Big Day

[Frank Mantlik]

There was one species accidentally omitted from the
list: 
Common Merganser

Despite the weather (am rain, freezing rain, fog; pm
high winds), we had a great birding day.

Frank Mantlik
Stratford


--- Edward Hagen <elhagen55 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> 
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