[CT Daily] 05/21/2007 KING RAIL

[Roy Harvey]

 From Kris and Jim Johnson via Luke Tiller:
4/21 - Madison, Hammonasset S.P. -- KING RAIL at 4:50 PM in the marsh
near Meigs Point.

 From Greg Hanisek, Randy Domina plus Hank Golet & Bill Banks (part of
the time)
5/21 - Madison, Hammonasset S.P. -- KING RAIL (first heard by Gina
Nichol) heard and then seen well at blind at Meigs Point parking lots;
adult LITTLE BLUE HERON; on Willard's Island, female BAY-BREASTED
WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER in Sassafrass grove at back end; plenty of
singing Seaside Sparrows in marshes; couple Clapper Rails calling in
marshes; 2 Brown Thrashers
Madison, Neck Road -- Salt-marsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow; c. 100 Surf
Scoters (I've had large mid-late May concentrations at this location
in the past); 2 Short-billed Dowitchers on rocks with Black-Bellied
Plovers and Ruddy Turnstones, which were numerous at various places
Guilford, Rt. 146 and Sachem's Head Rd -- 1st-year STILT SANDPIPER
molting into alternate plumage; 6 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS with c. 20
Semipalmated Sandpipers, a few Least Sandpipers and Semipalmetd
Plovers and 1 hen N. PINTAIL
West Haven, Sandy Point - 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS
Durham, fairgrounds - 3 BLACK VULTURES

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
5/21 - Stratford, Forest Rd. -- PURPLE GALLINULE continues at 5:15PM
5/21 - Stratford, Roosevelt Forest -- YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER

 From Luke Tiller:
5/21 - Easton, Trout Brook Valley -- 4 singing ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, 1
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, 1 WINTER WREN, 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH
Easton, Aspetuck Reservoir -- CLIFF SWALLOWS, 3 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS.

 From Grace Profatilov:
5/21 - New Haven, East Rock Park -- MOURNING WARBLER near the Whitney
museum entrance in dense shrubs to the left of the trail along the
river.

 From Patrick Comins, Donna Rose Smith:
5/21 - Southbury, Audubon Center at Bent of the River -- OLIVE-SIDED
FLYCATCHER.

 From Dana Campbell:
5/21 - Simsbury - Pennwood - OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, many SWAINSON'S
THRUSH, singing KENTUCKY WARBLER.

 From Jack Swatt:
5/20 - Wolcott, Wolcott State Fire School, Boundline Rd. Ext. -- 3
AMERICAN WOODCOCK displaying, 1 WHIP-POR-WILL

 From Meredith Sampson:
5/21 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- WILSON'S WARBLER.

 From Andrew Dasinger, Linda Vegliante, Glenn Williams and Lou Baird:
5/20 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- MARBLED GODWIT - seen in the
large pool immediately east of the nature center parking lot around 3
PM.  We returned a short time later to tell some birders who were
parked by the spot, who said they saw a large shorebird fly away -
presumably the godwit.  Tide was high but outgoing, so perhaps the
bird left to feed on exposed flats elsewhere.

 From Gene Leganza:
5/20 - Litchfield, White Memorial's Point Folly -- Cape May Warbler,
Wilson's Warbler, Common Nighthawk (flyover)
White Memorial's Little Pond trail -- Blackburnian Warbler
White Memorial's Catlin Woods -- Solitary Sandpiper