[CT Daily] 05/02/2007 PURPLE GALLINULE

[Roy Harvey]

 From Nancy Eaton:
5/03 - Stratford, Forest Rd -- Purple Gallinule--1:45 p.m

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
5/03 - Stratford, Forest Rd. -- PURPLE GALLINULE continues at 3:10PM;
SOLITARY SANDPIPER briefly appeared at 11:30AM
5/03 - Stratford, Boothe Park -- 2 ORCHARD ORIOLE

 From Dave Rosgen:
5/03 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Bird Blind
Feeders) -- 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
5/03 - Poquonock yard - - ORCHARD ORIOLE, BROWN THRASHER

 From Jay Kaplan:
5/03 - Canton, Roaring Brook Nature Center feeders -- Lincoln's
Sparrow

 From Miley Bull:
5/03 - Easton, Trout Brook Valley -- 1 Whip-poor-will calling at
pre-dawn this morning from the woods bordering the orchard.

 From William Haffey:
5/03 - Norwalk, Yard -- 1 Orchard Oriole

 From Steve & Charla Spector    
5/03 - Milford home -- WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW; 
Milford, Walker's Pond -- 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS (in love)

 From Bev Propen:
5/03 - West Haven, Maltby Lakes -- HOODED WARBLER

 From Larry Flynn:
5/03 - Norwalk Islands -- 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in the salt
marsh behind the power plant

 From Frank Mantlik:
5/02 Westport -- migrant fall-out in the morning drizzle and fog,
especially Longshore golf course woods & fields, including male
LAPLAND LONGSPUR, 5 AMERICAN PIPITS, warblers, vireos, flycatchers,
shorebirds, 6 HERMIT THRUSH, BOBOLINK, and flocks of SAVANNAH SPARROWS
(100+ total). At Compo Beach 3 COMMON TERNS, 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 15
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, HORNED GREBE.

 From Gina Nichol and Sunrise Birding class:
5/02 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park, Willard's Island area -- 2
BROWN THRASHERS, LITTLE BLUE  HERON, 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS,
BLUE-WINGED TEAL

 From Meredith Sampson:
5/02 - Greenwich, Greenwich Point, east of Eagle Pond -- WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS (3), "Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow (2), BROWN THRASHER, WINTER
WREN

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
5/02 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- BLACK TERN in the evening

 From Greg Watkins-Colwell with Rick Prum, Kristof Zyskowski. Vinod
Saranathan, others:
5/02 - New Haven, Yale campus between Osborne Lab and Environmental
Science Center on Sachem Street -- Blue Grosbeak seen around 8:45 and
a few times later until around 9:30


Migration notes:

Hot/Warm spots:
Lyme, Nehantic State Forest -- 18 species of warblers
Audubon Greenwich -- 15 species of warblers
New Haven, East Rock Park -- 14 species of warblers


First (more or less) reports:
INDIGO BUNTING -- New Milford; Norwalk
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE -- Stratford

Others:
BLUE-HEADED VIREO -- increasing reports
SCARLET TANAGER -- increasing reports
Great-crested Flycatcher -- increasing reports
Worm-eating Warbler -- East Rock Park; Nehantic State Forest