[CT Birds] Dec 3 Big Day

[Edward Hagen]

On Mon Dec 3 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 marked
with * were considered good finds and some notes on special birds are given.
Numbers are shown on birds of interest. Major sites visited were White
Memorial Foundation (WMF) pre-dawn, Durham Meadows, Hammonasset State Park
(HSP), Proto Ave, East Shore Park (ESP), Konold's Pond, Bridgeport, Lordship
and Stratford.

 

Red-throated loon

Common loon

Pied-billed grebe

Great cormorant

Double-crested cormorant

*American bittern 3 (2 at HSP 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, drake (I 95 exit 30N, first inlet toward Lordship)

American wigeon

Black duck

Mallard

Northern pintail

Green-winged teal

Canvasback

Ring-necked duck

Greater scaup

*Lesser scaup, female (pond at Seaside Park)

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

Surf scoter

Long-tailed duck

Bufflehead

Common goldeneye

Hooded merganser

Common merganser

Red-breasted merganser

Ruddy duck

     Total 25 waterfowl

Northern harrier

Sharp-shinned hawk

Cooper's hawk

Red-shouldered hawk

Red-tailed hawk

Kestrel

Merlin

Peregrine (2 at box under I 95 in Bridgeport)

Turkey

Coot

Greater yellowlegs 6 (same location as Eurasian wigeon)

Sanderling

Purple sandpiper 2 (Meig's Pt jetty)

Dunlin

*Laughing gull (main parking lot at HSP)

* Bonaparte's gull 3 adults (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 (WMF)

Belted kingfisher

Red-bellied woodpecker

Downy woodpecker

Hairy woodpecker

Flicker

Blue jay

American crow

Fish crow

Raven

Horned lark

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

Black-capped chickadee

Tufted titmouse

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 HSP)

Towhee

Tree sparrow

*Chipping sparrow 2 (1 at HSP and 1 at transfer station north of Caswell
Cove)

Song sparrow

Swamp sparrow

White-throated sparrow

White-crowned sparrow, imm (Proto Ave)

Junco

*Lapland longspur 4 (HSP, 3 on field by nature center and 1 on main parking
lot)

* Snow bunting 4 (HSP field by nature center)

Cardinal

Red-winged blackbird

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

Common grackle

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

Cowbird 

Purple finch

House finch

*Red crossbill 5 (HSP in pines at main parking lot, 4 male, 1 female)

*Common redpoll (1 at HSP, about 30 at Proto Ave)

Pine siskin

Goldfinch

House sparrow

 

Submitted by Ed Hagen for our team.