[CT Birds] AHHHHH! What a day.

[Carl Ekroth]

What a wonderful morning to be afield.  I was working on my Ellington list for  the spring census that Hartford Audubon runs each year.  There was 1 female hooded merganser in a small pond ( I think my first in Ellington) a broad-wing hawk and 1 American kestrel.  On Snipsic Lake, Ellington side, I saw a ring-billed gull with a wing tag.  The tag was chartreuse in color and round (2-2.5 "diam.) with the designation A4.  Anyone have any idea what is with that?  I had a N. rough-winged swallow, hermit thrush and 1 BROWN THRASHER on Abbot Rd and a pair of EASTERN TOWHEE on Green Rd.  The field sparrows are certainly in also.