[CT Daily] 05/27/2007 MISSISSIPPI KITE

[Roy Harvey]

 From Brian O'Toole w/Mike Warner & David Salmon:
5/27 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch -- adult MISSISSIPPI KITE
heading northeast at 12:10 p.m.
Stratford, Forest Rd. pond w/Stefan Martin, Tom Burke & Gail Benson --
PURPLE GALLINULE continues
Stratford, Railroad tracks trail w/Stefan Martin -- WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER

 From Roy Harvey:
5/27 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- KING RAIL 6:25-6:37, again
at 7:15, in the same location as other recent reports past the Meigs
nature center.  (Park opens to cars at 8:00, earier entry is by foot.)

 From Bruce Finnan with Buzz Devine & Denise Jernigan: 
5/27 - Naugatuck, Naugatuck State Forest -- HOODED WARBLER, (2)
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER.

 From Carl Ekroth:
5/27 - Stratford -- Purple Gallinule continues

 From Carolyn Cimino:
5/27 - South Lyme, Four Mile River Boat Launch off Rt. 156, one mile
from East Lyme and Rocky Neck State Park -- LITTLE BLUE HERON

 From Jayne Amico:
5/27 - Southington yard -- BROWN THRASHER singing

 From Maria Stockmal:
5/27 - West Haven, Sandy Point -- Yellow-crowned Nigh Heron in marsh

 From Charlotte Weston & Stacy Hanks & banding crew
5/26 - Milford, Ct Audubon Coastal Center -- GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH,
SWAINSON'S THRUSH, ALDER FLYCATCHER

 From Tammy Eustis:
5/27 - Chester yard -- Yellow-billed Cuckoo       

 From Susanne Shrader and Alan Lurie:
5/26 - Madison, Hammonasset SP at restoring marsh near rotary, 8 a.m.
-- heard the TEK-TERR call of KING RAIL.
Editor's note: Along the coast it is generally agreed that it is not
possible to identify King Rail by sound alone, as Clapper Rail (common
in saltwater marshes) is known to make the same sounds.

 From Carolyn Cimino:
5/27 - South Lyme, Four Mile River Boat Launch (1 mile west of Rocky
Neck State Park in East Lyme) -- 1 Little Blue Heron

 From Fran and Tom Holloway:
5/27 - Lyme, Nehantic State Forest -- Singing male HOODED WARBLER,
Keney Road entrance, Trail 9, right fork, near the end of the
non-overgrown trail (2nd or 3rd "clearing").  Seen 9:15 am.

 From John Himmelman:
5/26 - Killingworth, CT. yard -- 1 COMMON NIGHTHAWK flying overhead
(calling)

 From Buzz Devine:
5/24 - Morris, E. Shore Rd. (White Memorial Foundation's Apple Hill)
-- 1 Alder Flycatcher, 1 Wilson's Warbler, 2 Hooded Warblers 

 From Dave Rosgen:
5/25 - Morris, Van Winkle Rd. (White Memorial Foundation) - 5
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area & Ongley
Field) -- 1 Common Nighthawk roosting in a Hemlock tree, 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 2 Purple Finches
White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Moulthrop Brook Trail) -- 1
Blackburnian Warbler
S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond Boardwalk) -- 13 Virginia
Rails, 1 SORA, 1 Alder Flycatcher, 1 Purple Finch.  Please do not use
tape playback to harass the rails!

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Daren Jacklin:
5/26 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area &
Ongley Field) -- 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 1 Cliff Swallow, 5 Purple
Finches

 From Michael Lee:
5/26 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Feeders) --
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Mike Doyle:
5/26 - Morris, E. Shore Rd. (White Memorial's Apple Hill) -- 1
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER