[CT Birds] notable birds & mammal

[Dave Rosgen]

>From Lukas Hyder:

2/17 - Morris, 347 County Rd. - Black Bear destroyed bird feeders and seed
container on deck

>From Dave Rosgen:

2/17 - Winchester, 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) - 3 Common
Redpolls, 1 Purple Finch

2/18 - same location - 1 Common Redpoll, 1 Purple Finch

130 Laurel Way - 5 Eastern Bluebirds, 25 American Robins

>From Keith Cudworth:

2/18 - Litchfield, 15 White Hall Rd. (White Memorial) - 1 adult
Red-shouldered Hawk

>From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff, Jeff Greenwood, et. al.:

2/19 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Mattatuck Trail @
Chickadee Bridge) - 2 Turkey Vultures (our first in 2008), 2 Red-breasted
Nuthatches, 40 American Tree Sparrows, 49 Red-winged Blackbirds, 20 Rusty
Blackbirds, 67 Common Grackles

(Museum Area) - 1 adult Bald Eagle overhead, 4 Eastern Bluebirds, 10
Red-winged Blackbirds, 17 Common Grackles, 5 Brown-headed Cowbirds

>From Dave Rosgen:

2/19 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's Outlet) - 4 Wood Ducks, 2
American Black Ducks, 100 Mallards, 4 Common Mergansers, 2 American Coots,
78 Ring-billed Gulls, 33 Cedar Waxwings

Webster Rd. (Bantam River & its Marshes) - 290 Canada Geese, 1 drake Common
Goldeneye

(White Memorial's Catlin Woods) - 1 Pileated Woodpecker

Torrington, Litchfield St. & Wyoming Ave.  - 1 Black Vulture sitting in the
intersection eating a dead Gray Squirrel until I made him carry it over to
an adjacent lawn

David Rosgen

Director of Research

White Memorial Conservation Center

P.O. Box 368

Litchfield, CT 06759

860-567-0857

dave at whitememorialcc.org

www.whitememorialcc.org