[CT Daily] 12/16/2007

[Roy Harvey]

 From Ed Hagen, compiler:
12/15 - Highlights of the Woodbury-Roxbury count -- 31 black vultures,
9 bald eagles, 6 northern harriers, 8 sawwhet owls, 1 long-eared owl,
34 yellow-bellied sapsuckers, over 5000 robins, 13 white-crowned
sparrows, 8 pine siskins, 2 rough-legged hawks, 2 northern shrikes, 9
american pipits, 73 common redpolls, and 1 merlin. 91 total species
with 13 of 15 areas reporting.

 From Jay Kaplan:
12/15 - The Hartford Christmas Bird Count recorded a Rufous
Hummingbird.  Additional noteworthy birds (for northern CT Counts)
included Bufflehead, Ruddy Duck,Bald Eagle, Rough-legged Hawk,
Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Iceland Gull, Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker, Gray Catbird, American Pipit, and Common Redpoll.?

 From Fran and Tom Holloway:
12/16 - Madison backyard -- COMMON REDPOLLS, PINE SISKINS, and PURPLE
FINCHES continue.  One house finch has a strikingly light, peach color
- don't know if this qualifies as a "Yellow Variant."

 From Angela Dimmitt:
12/15 - Woodbury, Upper Grassy Hill Road -- 50+/- COMMON REDPOLLS
feeding in birches;  
Woodbury-Roxbury Airfield (Town Line Road) -- ROUGH-LEGGED 
HAWK (light morph adult)

 From Luke Tiller:
12/16 -  Wilton portion of the Westport Christmas Bird Count -- 1
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (at the Christian Science Church on Route 7), 3
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, 3 COMMON REDPOLLS, 1 CHIPPING SPARROW,? 1 BLACK
VULTURE, 2 PURPLE FINCH, 1 EASTERN TOWHEE, 1 BROWN CREEPER.

 From Paul Fusco:
12/15 - Hammonasett S.P. -- 2 Rough-legged Hawks, one light morph, 1
dark morph
Stratford, Great Meadows saltmarsh -- one dark morph Rough-legged Hawk

 From Meredith Sampson:
12/15 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- AMERICAN PIPIT, 3 SNOW
BUNTINGS, BONAPARTE'S GULL, 3 NORTHERN GANNETS, YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER, 2 CACKLING GEESE.
Old Greenwich, Meadow Road -- YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER.
Home feeder -- PURPLE FINCH.

 From Tim Antanaitis:
12/15 - Manchester Landfill -- 3 SNOW BUNTINGS, 2 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, 1 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER

 From Danny Williams
12/16 - Waterford, Harkness State Park -- 1 flyby Razorbill, 2 Female
Common Eider, 80 Northern Gannets

 From John Maynard:
12/16 - Middletown, Brown Street feeder -- 1 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER.

 From Carol Ansel
12/16 - Mystic backyard feeder -- 2 Fox Sparrows 

 From Jon Axtell:
12/16 - Ashford yard, near rt. 44 -- BROWN CREEPER