[CT Birds] notable sightings from Litchfield, Torrington, & Winchester

[Dave Rosgen]

>From Carol Parent:

3/28 – Winchester, Platt Hill Rd., between Laurel Way & Dayton Rd. – total
of 9 American Woodcock displaying

105 Laurel Way – 50 Common Redpolls at feeders

>From Gerri Griswold:

3/28 – Winchester, Rugg Brook Rd. (Winchester Club Pond) – 1 pair of
Red-shouldered Hawks

Torrington, Litchfield St. (Charlotte Hungerford Hospital) – 20 Black
Vultures, 25 Turkey Vultures (waiting for a victim?)

>From Roger Johnson & James Harmon:

3/28 – Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial’s Pine Grove 2) – 1
Pileated Woodpecker

>From Dave Rosgen:

3/28 – Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial’s Museum Feeders) – 1 Fox
Sparrow

Constitution Way (White Memorial’s Cemetery Pond) – 7 Ring-necked Ducks, 8
Hooded Mergansers

>From Mike Doyle & John Eykelhoff:

3/28 – Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake’s N. Bay) – 3 Pied-billed
Grebes, 2 American Wigeon, 5 Buffleheads, 200 Common Mergansers, 1 adult
Bald Eagle

(Litchfield Town Beach) – 1 Eastern Phoebe

>From Frank Errico:

3/28 – Morris, E. Shore Rd. (White Memorial’s Apple Hill) – 1 Cooper’s Hawk

>From Mike Doyle & John Eykelhoff:

3/29 – Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake’s N. Bay) – 2 NORTHERN PINTAIL,
2 CANVASBACKS; Also, 8 Pied-billed Grebes, 2 Great Blue Herons, 2 Wood
Ducks, 7 Green-winged Teal, 4 American Wigeon, 14 Ring-necked Ducks, 3
Common Goldeneye, 222 Common Mergansers, 1 adult Bald Eagle, 2 Eastern
Bluebirds

>From Dave Rosgen, w/ James Fischer, Hank Gruner, Daren Jacklin, et. al.:

3/29 – Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial’s Interpretive Trail) – 2
Pileated Woodpeckers

>From Dave Rosgen, w/ Daren Jacklin & Bob Stanowski:

3/29 – Litchfield, White’s Woods Rd. (White Memorial’s Little Pond
Boardwalk) – 2 Rusty Blackbirds; Also, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 2 Great Blue
Herons, 6 Wood Ducks, 10 Green-winged Teal, 8 Hooded Mergansers, 2 Killdeer,
3 Eastern Phoebes

>From Dave Rosgen, w/ Daren Jacklin:

3/29 – Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial’s Mattatuck Trail @
Chickadee Bridge) – 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 10 Fox Sparrows, 1 Rusty
Blackbird

(Cemetery Pond) – 2 Great Blue Herons, 7 American Black Ducks, 1 American
Wigeon, 18 Hooded Mergansers, 6 Tree Swallows

>From John Marshall:

3/29 – Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (Over White Memorial’s Museum Area) – 1
Osprey

>From John Eykelhoff:

3/30 – Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake’s N. Bay) – 1 Common Loon, 4
Pied-billed Grebes, 1 Great Blue Heron, 12 Buffleheads, 4 Common Goldeneye,
206 Common Mergansers, 1 Hooded Merganser, 1 Eastern Phoebe

>From Carol Parent:

3/30 – Winchester, 105 Laurel Way – 12 Common Redpolls at the feeders

>From Dave Rosgen:

3/30 – 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) – 9 Common Redpolls, 4
Purple Finches, 5 PINE GROSBEAKS, 1 EVENING GROSBEAK; Also 1 pair of
Red-shouldered Hawks

3/31 – Winchester, Newfield Rd., ¼ mile north of Wahnee Rd. – 1 RUFFED
GROUSE

Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial’s Museum Feeders) – 6 Fox
Sparrows, 4 Common Redpolls, 1 Purple Finch

Constitution Way (White Memorial’s Cemetery Pond) – 2 Hooded Mergansers

>From Max Ehrman:

3/31 – Litchfield, 478 Torrington Rd. – 2 Fox Sparrows

>From John Eykelhoff:

3/31 – Litchfield, 59 Case Rd. – 3 Fox Sparrows

Morris, Rt. 209 (Bantam Lake’s S. Bay) – 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 4 Ring-necked
Ducks, 2 Buffleheads, 7 Common Mergansers

Dave Rosgen