[CT Birds] Va. Rail etc

[greg hanisek]

>From Greg Hanisek, Neil Currie, Randy Domina, Bill Banks
   
  1/7 Old Lyme, Lieutenant River Road 9 am - VIRGINIA RAIL calling in marsh, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT as previously reported, 5 Red-winged Blackbirds
  Watch Rock - Gray Catbird
   
  Old Saybrook - Saybrook Point - 8 Yellow-rumped Warblers; power tower at I-95 bridge - Peregrine Falcon; South Cove - Red-shouldered Hawk 
   
  Westbrook, Menunketesuck - 8 RED CROSSBILLS in pines bordering public parking lot; also on island Black-bellied Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin and Sanderling
   
  Madison, Hammonasset - 3 LAPLAND LONGSPURS and drake N. PINTAIL, Horned Grebe, Purple Sandpiper at Meigs Point; West Beach pines - 5+ Red-breasted Nuthatches, c 20 flyover Cedar Waxwings
   
  Middlefield, Miller Road - Ring-necked Pheasant