[CT Daily] 12/22/2007 BOHEMIAN WAXWING

[Roy Harvey]

 From Dori Sosensky, Nick Bonomo and Roy Harvey:
12/22 - Norfolk, Shepard Road -- 13 PINE GROSBEAKS in the area of the
Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance building and the retirement housing
diagonally across the street.
Falls Village, Housatonic River Road -- At least one, probably two,
BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS.  The location was about 2.2 miles up (per Dori) to
an open hillside with a few scattered crabapple trees on your left.
The first was alone at the top of a deciduous tree.  It left and flew
east, crossing the road and heading for the river.  Very shorly later
what we believe was the second bird was found at the top of another
deciduous tree nearer the road, with two Cedars.  That bird also left
and flew east, disappearing in the same direction as the first.  Also
Purple Finches and 8 flyby Common Redpolls.
The general area of the waxwings:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=falls+village,+ct&ie=UTF8&ll=41.987878,-73.3751&spn=0.00551,0.007274&t=h&z=17&om=1
Canaan, Under Mountain Rd -- 5 PINE GROSBEAKS along the north part of
the road.

 From Phil Asprelli:
12/22 - Hamden, Edmund St. -- 10:00am, (1) Barrow's Goldeneye seen at
close range (50 yds) in tidal bay of the Quinnipiac River. Edmund St.
is 1 block N of the DMV on State St. in Hamden. Being a tidal bay
there is no ice.

 From Ann Orsillo:
12/22 - Goshen, Marshepaug Road, Crossman farm fields, drive up
Beach Street from Litchfield, take left at Newcomb and then right onto
Marshepaug (Crossman Road) -- Observed at 8 A.M., 11  PINE GROSBEAKS.

 From Sara Zagorski via Luke Tiller:
12/22 - Falls Village, Housatonic River Road -- 1 male PINE GROSBEAK
in the area of the Bohemian sighting.

 From John Marshall:
12/22 - East Hartland, Intersection Rte 20 and Mountain Road -- 7:40
AM, 12 PINE GROSBEAKS, as I arrived about 10 flew east down Mountain
Rd.  One male and one female remained for a couple of minutes and then
followed.  There is still lots of fruit on the trees in town.  The
cherry tree in front of town hall is picked almost clean.

 From Nancy Eaton:
12/22 - Old Lyme -- Yellow-breasted Chat continues (in thicket behind
red mailbox at #17 Lt.River Lane, around 10 a.m.)

 From Jim Bair:
12/22 - Goshen, North East Rd. -- Flock of 20+ Common Redpoll.
Bakerville, Bakerville Swamp, Maple Hollow Rd -- 2 Common Redpoll with
mixed flock of mostly Goldfinches

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
12/22 - Milford, Silver Sands State Park -- Rough-legged Hawk (light
phase), American Pipit

 From Hank Golet, Ted Hendrickson
12/22 - Old Lyme, Great Island -- 4-4:30pm, 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS,
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK  dark phase

 From Arthur Shippee
12/22 - Hamden, North Lake Dr. -- 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at sunflower
seed feeder

 From Scott Henckel:
12/22 - Shelton yard --  2 Common Redpolls

 From Dave Tripp:
12/22 - Barkhamsted CBC (unofficial) 74 species + 1 cw -- COMMON LOON,
3 HORNED GREBES, WOOD DUCK, NORTHERN PINTAIL, CANVASBACK, 27 RUDDY
DUCKS, 2 RUFFED GROUSE, 11 NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, 20 YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKERS, 4 NORTHERN SHRIKES, 28 COMMON RAVENS, RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRD, 107 PINE GROSBEAKS, 271 COMMON REDPOLLS, 53 PINE SISKINS
and 15 EVENING GROSBEAKS