[CT Daily] 10/05/2007 Sparrow Workshop MOVED!!!!

[Roy Harvey]

**** COA SPARROW WORKSHOP MOVING!!!!

The COA Sparrow Workshop is being moved from Barn Island Wildlife
Management Area to Haley Farm State Park in Groton due to very few
birds at Barn Island.

Directions to Haley Farm State Park:

Take Exit 88 for Rte 117 and turn south at bottom of exit (Turn left
if exiting from Rte 95 Southbound or turn right if exiting from Rte
95 northbound). Go about 1 mile till Rte 117 ends at Rte 1. Turn left
on Rte 1 and go a little under 1 mile to the intersection of Rte 215
(Groton Long Point Road). Turn right onto Rte 215 and go about 0.5
mile and take a right onto the small side street called Brook Street.
Follow Brook Street until it meets Haley Farm Lane, a sharp right
turn. Turn onto Haley Farm Lane and you are there.

**** COA SPARROW WORKSHOP MOVING!!!!


 From Luke Tiller with EJ Raynor:
10/05 - Stratford/Bridgeport, Long Beach/Pleasure Beach -- 2
Peregrine Falcon, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 2 Red Knot, 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Winter Wren,  1
Gray-cheeked Thrush, 1 Swainson's Thrush, 1 Brown Thrasher, 2
American Pipit, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 5 White-crowned Sparrow, 1
Bobolink

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/05 - Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- AMERICAN PIPITS (10),
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH (2)

 From Dave Provencher:
10/05 - Stonington, Barn Island WMA -- Winter Wren, Blackburnian
Warbler 

 From Bill Banks:
10/05 - Orange/Derby Skyview Ter -- 1 Eastern Meadowlark, 6
Bobolinks, 
1 Wilson's Snipe.

 From Hank Golet:
10/5 - Old Lyme Watch Rock -- Two Pectoral Sandpipers on mudflat
briefly this morning.  Yesterday in one of the nearby creeks I spent
a couple hours with an Am Bittern.

 From Peary Stafford and Olaf Soltau:
10/04 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock -- 3 Lincoln's

Sparrows, perhaps 20 Purple Finches
10/05 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock -- Lincoln's 
Sparrow, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrow, Purple Finch

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/05 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 6 BLUE-WINGED TEAL.

 From Carl Ekroth:
10/05 - South Windsor, Vibert Rd & Station 43 -- 1 BLUE WING TEAL, 1
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, 3 PURPLE FINCH at
43 and about 15 at Vibert Rd.

 From Bruce Finnan:
10/05 - Waterbury, Bunker Hill residence -- (3) imm. YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKERS