[CT Daily] 05/05/2007 Purpe Gallinule

[Roy Harvey]

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
5/5 - Stratford, Forest Rd. -- PURPLE GALLINULE continues at 11:00AM!
After hiding for a bit of time, it has come out.  Continues at 7:30PM;
earlier also 1 BLACK VULTURE

 From Hank Golet
5/05 - Lyme/Old Lyme, Lord Cove -- 2 AMERICAN BITTERN, 2 WILSON'S
SNIPE, many MARSH WRENS

 From Ted Gilman:
5/05 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (2) feeding
on lawns and singing in thicket near Nature Center; ORCHARD ORIOLE
front fields and orchard; 

 From Bev Propen:
5/05 - Orange backyard -- 1 WHITE CROWNED SPARROW
Milford-CAS Coastal Center on marsh -- 1 EURASIAN WIDGEON, 2  
BLUE WINGED TEALS
Stratford-Forest Rd. -- PURPLE GALLINULE (10:50am-11:05am) well hidden
in reeds, but came out to forage for food.
Stratford-Booth Memorial Park -- pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES

 From Richard Montesanto
5/05 - West Norwalk, Dolce Conference Center -- 3 ORCHARD ORIOLE

 From Jayne Amico:
5/05 - Southington yard -- Adult male ORCHARD ORIOLE

 From Joe and Terry Wojtanowski:
5/05 - East Granby, East Granby Farms -- WHIP-POOR-WILL.
Poquonock feeder - - BROWN THRASHER, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW.

 From Jerry Connolly and The Audubon Shop field trip:
5/05 - Hammonasset State Park -- BLUE-WINGED TEAL, PURPLE SANDPIPER,
both seen at the end of the moraine trail

 From Meredith Sampson:
5/04 - Old Greenwich, Binney Park -- SOLITARY SANDPIPER.
Greenwich Point -- BROWN THRASHER.

 From Brian O'Toole:
5/05 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- 1 Swainson's Thrush, 3 Rusty
Blackbirds, 2 White-Crowned Sparrows, 14 species of warblers

 From Diane Tucker, Farmington, Hill-Stead Museum
5/05 - Orchard Oriole, Bobolink, Solitary Sandpiper

 From Roy Harvey:
5/05 - Southbury, Bent of the River Audubon -- 1 male Orchard Oriole


Migration notes:

Chestnut Sided Warbler -- starting to get reports
INDIGO BUNTING -- more reports