[CT Daily] 12/24/2007 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS

[Roy Harvey]

 From Julian Hough:
12/24 - Norfolk -- 10-15 PINE GROSBEAKS (5+ males) feeding in berry
bushes along Shepard Ave and adjacent Norfolk Fire Ambulance building
on and off all day.  10+ BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS seen horrifically badly and
briefly, flying away over the ambulance building, after flushing a
flock of teed up PIGR. They headed west toward Canaan and didn't stop.

 From Ray Belding:
12/23(?) - Litchfield Hills CBC -- 8 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, 75
COMMON REDPOLLS, 54 PINE GROSBEAKS, 4 EVENING GROSBEAKS, 1 EASTERN
MEADOWLARK, 1 LONG-EARED OWL, 19 NORTHERN SAW WHET OWLS, 3 NORTHERN
SHRIKES, 1 RUSTY BLACKBIRD, 1 EASTERN TOWHEE, 52 SNOW BUNTINGS, 1
REDHEAD, 5 GADWALL, 6 CANVASBACK, 1 AMERICAN WOODCOCK, 1 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW, 1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK

 From David Schonfeld:
12/24 - Norfolk, Shepard Road -- 18 PINE GROSBEAKS (probably more) in
the area of the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance building and the
retirement housing diagonally across the street. Seen around 3 PM.
Males and females about equally distributed. The crabapples they are
feeding on are about half
consumed.

 From Randy and Natasha Domina and E.J. Raynor:
12/24 - Canaan, Under Mountain Rd -- 9:30, 10 Pine Grosbeak including
3 males;
Cobble Road -- 8:30, 1 subadult Northern Shrike

 From Chris Loscalzo:
12/24 - Woodbridge, community gardens -- 1st year NORTHERN SHRIKE.

 From Peary Stafford:
12/24 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock Association -- 
65 SNOW BUNTINGS

 From Jerry Connolly:
12/24 - Madison (The Audubon Shop) -- WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW

 From Hank Golet:
12/24 - Old Lyme, Ferry Rd,small pond behind DEP building -- NORTHERN
PINTAIL male, in with mallards

 From Brian Kleinman:
12/24 - Barkhamsted, Barkhamsted Reservoir north end -- RED CROSSBILLS
and a couple of COMMON REDPOLLS, both flyovers.

 From Jan Collins:
12/24 - East Windsor, Ferry Road -- 75+  mixed flock SNOW BUNTINGS and
Horned Larks (more Buntings than Larks), 1 immature WHITE-CROWNED 
SPARROW.

 From Tammy Eustis:
12/24 - Chester -- A single BROAD-WINGED HAWK circled the yard and
landed in our woods this afternoon.