[CT Daily] 04/02/2007 LITTLE GUILL (revised)

[Roy Harvey]

*****  Special Reminder!
*****  COA Annual Meeting!
*****  Saturday, April 14, 2007
*****  Middlesex Community College
*****  Middletown, CT

Preregistration ($10) allows you to sign up for the hot and cold
buffet lunch ($12), and you save $5 off the $15 price at the door.  It
is NOT TOO LATE to preregister - just get your form and payment to
Renee Baade by April 10 (an extra day more than it says on the form.)

!!!!!  Presentations!

*****  Looking Skyward: A Passion for Hawkwatching by Shawn P. Carey 

*****  The Singing Life of Birds by Donald Kroodsma

*****  Asian Birds West to East and Back Again by Robert DeCandido

*****  The Spotted Owl of the Connecticut Shore?  Sparrows, Seal
*****  Level, and the Need for Preemptive Conservation Planning by
*****  Chris Elphick


 From Jim Hunter:
4/02 - Southport, Southport Beach -- between 5:45 and 6:45, started
with only 20 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. By 6:15 up to 60 BONAPARTE'S. At 6:25
1 LITTLE GULL showed up (a winter plumaged bird) and at 6:35 and adult
LITTLE GULL showed up. At 6:45 something happened and all of the
"little" gulls took off towards the sound (despite the  tide was still
falling). After that NONE of the "little hooded gulls" remained. 

 From Sam Fried:
4/01 - Bloomfield -- 2 BLACK VULTURES flying over yard on Mountain
Road.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Daren Jacklin, Patrick Kelleher, et al:
3/31 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Feeders &
Ongley Field) -- 2 Purple Finches

 From Dave Rosgen & John Marshall (in part), et al:
3/31 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's Pt. Folly) -- 1 Lesser
Scaup, Red-breasted Merganser (uncommon inland)

 From Dave Rosgen:
3/31 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (White Memorial's Pt. Folly Marsh) --
3 American Woodcock displaying, 2 Rusty Blackbirds

 From Carol Parent:
3/31 - Winchester, Platt Hill Rd. (State Park) -- 6 American Woodcock
displaying

 From Mike Doyle:
4/01 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake) -- 1 Lesser Scaup, 1
Red-breasted Merganser (uncommon inland)

 From Dave Rosgen:
4/01 - Winchester, 121-126 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 1
Common Raven, 1 Purple Finch
4/02 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 3
Purple Finches

 From Margaret Sellers:
4/02 - Litchfield, Brush Hill & Duck Pond Rd. -- 1 Purple Finch


Migration Note:

Pine Warbler -- Increasing reports over diverse locations