[CT Daily] 04/18/2007 WHITE-FACED IBIS

[Roy Harvey]

Note 1 from Greg Hanisek: There are 4 previous records for White-faced
Ibis.  All were in May and 3 of the 4 were from Hammo, most recent
2001.  (Other was Barn Island). Great find.

Note 2:  The storm brought a lot of birds in just south of us (NJ)
including single Swainson's, Hooded, and Prothonotary 
Warblers, Y-b Cuckoo(s), Blue Grosbeak and Indigo Buntings, and both 
Scarlet and Summer Tanagers!  SOME others are probably UP HERE, if
only we find them.


 From Renee Baade and the Netown Newcomer's Bird Group:
4/28 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- WHITE-FACED IBIS, in with
about 30 GLOSSY IBIS after turn around toward Nature Center on right
in marsh grass.  Only Ibis in the group with a reddish face patch
around red eye.  No white visible around the face patch but had
reddish legs as well.  LITTLE BLUE HERON in marsh patch before
Williard's Island.
Milford, Milford Pt. -- BLUE-WINGED TEAL

 From Lorraine Gundersen:
4/18 - Guilford, Ann Conover Nature Preserve -- Glossy-Ibis approx
30+, Cattle Egret (1) Note: area is extremely wet.....as are most
places!

 From  Dean Rupp:    
4/18 - Madison, Hammonasset SP -- 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS (11 am in
rain pool at extreme west end of park)

 From Jack Wells:
4/17 - Greenwich Point, Old Greenwich -- 6 NORTHERN GANNET

 From Andrew Dasinger
4/18 - South Windsor -- 5 GLOSSY IBIS; far side of flooded farm field
on east side of Main Street, south of Pleasant Valley Road

 From Ted Gilman:
4/18 - Greenwich, Audubon Fairchild Garden -- YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER
on Forest Road