[CT Daily] 08/23/2007

[Roy Harvey]

Wondering about the shorbird migration away from the shore?  The
numbers of migrating Ruby-throated Hummingbirds passing through now?
If you subscribe to CTBirds you would have been reading about those
things and others this week.

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 From Jared Riva via Tom Schaefer:
8/23 - Canaan, Canaan Valley Road just north of Moses Mead Road -- 4
Sandhill Cranes in field on west side of Road.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO RESPECT PRIVATE PROPERTY, always of course, but
particularly in this area as I have received a caution on this one.

 From Tim Antanaitis:
8/22 - South Windsor, Vibert Road -- There was a huge flock of about
130 BOBOLINKS in the first field past the marsh; 4 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS

 From Greg Hanisek, Neil Currie, Len Kendall, Roger Preston:
8/23 - Rocky Hill meadows (c 10 a.m.)-- juv. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
with c. 35 Least Sandpipers and c. 60 Killdeer. Birds were on a dirt
swath where sod was being actively cut. Some often fed just ahead of
the very slow-moving sod cutting machine. This is just south of the
model airplane field. Thanks E.J.

 From Frank Mantlik:
8/22 - Westport, Sherwood Is. S.P. -- 1 BLACK VULTURE flying over
treetops of west beach lot with 3 TVs at 1:45pm.

 From Bill Asteriades:
8/22 - Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows 8:00-9:30am -- 10 Pectoral
Sandpipers in field across from dirt bike track and next to model
airplane launch area and in field with sod newly removed.