[CT Birds] 1/23/08 Birds at Hammo - W. Tanager, Yes

[james.bair at snet.net]

>From Jim Bair
1/28/08 - Madison, Hammonassett Beach State Park -- 1 WESTERN TANAGER

Bird seen by 5 of us from about 2:40 to 2:50 p.m. In the campground area look for a flock of feeder birds in the vicinity of Camp site #1 or Camp site #30 (they are not that far from each other). This flock seems to hang around there and grows and diminishes in size as the day goes on. In the hour and a half I was there I saw Chickadees, Juncoes, House Finches, and White-Throats the whole time with visits from Goldfinches, Robins, a Yellow-Rump, a Mockingbird, and a Northern Harrier in addition to the Tanager. Another birder saw a Golden-Crowned Kinglet. If you are patient staking this flock out, then hopefully the Tanager will appear.

Bird list from Hammo:
Horned Grebe  Canada Goose  N. Harrier  Herring Gull  Ring-Billed Gull  Rock Dove  N. Flicker  Am. Crow  Horned Lark  B-C Chickadee  Am. Robin  N. Mockingbird  Starling  Yellow-Rumped Warbler  Western Tanager  N. Cardinal  D-E Junco  White-Throated Sparrow  House Finch  Am. Goldfinch

Checked out as best I could the two flocks of Horned Lark, but did not come up with anything other than Lark.