[CT Birds] Saturday at Flanders

[Roy Harvey]

My initial intention of birding Nauguatuck State Forest was blocked
by the realization that it was spring turkey season; when I got there
I found that the hunters were out in force.  Instead I went up to
Woodbury, to Flander's Nature Center/Van Vleck Farm Sanctuary.  I
don't think I had even one bird that isn't on the "common birds"
list, but I still tallied 51 species, 14 of them warblers.  Magnolia
Warbler was in the flowering apple trees by the trail house,
Chestnut-sided and Prairie by the powerline, a Northern Waterthrush
singing in a swampy area, and Northern Parulas singing everywhere I
went.  I even had long and satisfactory looks at four Ovenbirds,
including one singing, and a pair walking on the ground together.

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT