[CT Birds] Old Lyme:yellow-breasted chat continues, short-eared owl

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12/10 - Old Lyme:  3PM -- The YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT which was reported a 
couple of days ago in Old Lyme is still in the same thickets and bushes.  Seems to 
have a preference for the bushes with the red berries. (Lieutenant River Lane, 
just past the Fulton-Theroux funeral home, in the thickets to the left.  
Sometimes the bird was down the embankment.)

Also at this location at the top of the very tall spruce/fir tree (I soooo 
need a course in basic botany!) directly across from the funeral home: 
                               1 red-shouldered hawk.

Earlier in the afternoon: 1 large sharp-shinned hawk or small Coopers hawk    
                                                                              
                                       It flew into the parking lot of the 
Old Lyme Shopping Center, landed, and proceeded to hop into the shrubs/hedge in 
front of the Hideaway Restaurant.  I could hear him rustling around in there 
for a few minutes and then he flew out and landed several hundred feet away in 
a tall tree not far from the Old Lyme Bd of Ed building.  By the time I ran 
back to the car to get my binoculars he was gone.  I have never seen a hawk hop 
into a hedge.  Must have been something tantalizing in there!

Old Lyme Boat Launch/Observation Platform off Smith Neck Rd (off Rt 156):   
4PM - 4:30PM with Hank Golet:
                   1 SHORT-EARED OWL
                   3  northern harriers
                   5 buffleheads
Thank you Hank  for helping me find my first ever short-eared owl!

Carolyn Cimino
Waterford


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