[CT Birds] Vote on the CT's best January Bird.

[Mark Szantyr]

I vote for the Northern Rough-winged Swallow followed distantly by the Hoary 
Redpoll.  The swallows are unprecedented ( and in fact probably unidentified 
as to subspecies at this date) and the redpoll was largely undocumented for 
about 25 years.

Mark
Mark S.Szantyr
80 Bicknell Road
Apt. 9
Ashford, CT 06278
USA

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Provencher" <davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net>
To: "CTBirds" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:32 AM
Subject: [CT Birds] Vote on the CT's best January Bird.


> Joe Zeranski brought up the idea of "Best Birds" as part of doing the CT
> 2008 list. Well I thought he had an interesting idea to spice up the 
> winter
> Doldrums.
>
> Below is a list of the "Best Birds" seen in January. The list was derived
> from an exhausting analysis of historical records and probability. It must
> have taken me nearly 2 minutes. Seriously, the list is based primarily on
> level of rarity over the January historical record (at least as the
> understanding of that record exists in my head!)
>
>
>
> So if you would like to vote on the best bird species for January please
> respond DIRECTLY to me (NOT to CTBirds) and tell me which species you 
> think
> was the best bird find for January in CT. Again, please do not respond to
> the list as this will add many unnecessary emails in people's inboxes.
> Thanks, Dave.
>
>
>
> Vote for one of the following:
>
>
>
> * Rufous Hummingbird
> * Bohemian Waxwing
> * Northern Rough-winged Swallow
> * Western Tanager
> * Pine Grosbeak
> * Hoary Redpoll
>
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