[CT Daily] 12/06/2007 KING EIDERS, WESTERN FLY

[Roy Harvey]

 From Patrick Dugan:
12/06 - Stamford, off Stamford Ave -- 8:45, 4 KING EIDERS, all
female/immature types, possible 1 adult female with 4 immatures.

 From Maria Stockmal:
12/06 - Derby, Osbornedale State Park --  3 p.m. to 3:10, WESTERN
FLYCATCHER.  It was moving in the path and along the edges of the path
between the two ponds.

From Mardi Dickinson et all:
12/06 - Derby, Osbornedale State Park -- WESTERN FLYCATCHER Species 
continues from 10AM-11:35AM. Fabulous looks along the pathway not but
5 feet away.
12/06 - Westport - Sherwood Island State Park -- 100 COMMON REDPOLLS
feeding around the east beach in all of the birches. Seen at
8:20AM-9:15AM hanging together. 

 From Bill Banks with Paul Fusco:
12/06 - Derby, Osbornedale State Park -- WESTERN FLYCATCHER continues
at 9:10, giving good looks.

 From Marty Moore:
12/06 - New Haven, Fort Hale -- an adult Golden Eagle came in over the
water from the West at 11:30 a.m. and went inland to the East
suggesting it might be a local bird rather than a migrant. But, of
course, who knows. Also lots of Red-breasted Nuthatches at Fort Hale
and East Shore Park, but no Crossbills.

 From Andy Griswold:
12/06 - Essex, Foxboro Point -- 3:45PM; YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT feeding
in sunlit cedar trees.

 From Paul Carrier:
12/06 - North Torrington, Saw Mill Hill Rd -- 3:20; a single female 
RED CROSSBILL eating from cones at top of a stand of Black Spruces
around an abandoned building. This road has many spruces along its
length, I checked all, and none other then her. Most spruce trees were
bare or sparce with cones - several were loaded.

 From Fran and Tom Holloway:
12/06 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 9:00 a.m.: One male and one
female RED CROSSBILL on the pine trees at West Beach; 10:00 a.m.: One
LAPLAND LONGSPUR and one SNOW BUNTING with a flock of horned larks in
the parking area adjacent to the Nature Center.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
12/06 - West Hartford, Reservoir #6 (route 44) -- 1 first winter
ICELAND GULL. 

 From Jan Collins:
12/06 - Somers, Hutton Rd -- 2PM, 1 SNOW BUNTING with 100+ Horned Lark

 From Jerry Stage:
12/06 - Somers, feeding in pine at 554 Main St -- 1 YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER (male)

 From Bill Banks
12/06 - Seymour yard -- Purple Finch

 From John Eykelhoff:
12/03 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's N. Bay) - 3
RED-THROATED LOONS.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff & the Barnes':
12/06 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's N. Bay) -- 2 Common
Ravens (overhead).
(Bantam Lake's Outlet) -- 1 Northern Pintail