[CT Daily] 10/08/2007

[Roy Harvey]

Editor's Note:  I don't always have time to search the internet or
past report archives to figure out what town your favorite park or
pond is when it isn't somewhere I know.  So if you are wondering why
your report is not here, maybe that is the reason.


 From Lynn James:
10/07 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Hawk Watch -- 3 GOLDEN EAGLES two
adult one imm., 3+ American Pipit, several Peregrine Falcons

 From Patrick Dugan & Bill Vanloan via Frank Gallo:
10/08 - Stamford, Cove Island Park, Brush Dump -- 2 Lincoln's
Sparrows, 1 adult and 1 imm White-crowned Sparrow, 2 Yellow-bellied
Sapsuckers, 1 Eastern Meadowlark, 104 Snow Geese, and 3 Common Eiders
flying west at 8:50 a.m.,  1 Philadelphia Vireo

 From Frank Gallo & Patrick Dugan
10/08 - Stamford, Shippan Point sea watch -- 2 Black Scoter, and 5
Surf Scoter (both groups going east), 12 American Pintail flying 
west, 1 Red-throated Loon, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper (rare for
Stamford)
   
 From Frank Gallo:
10/08 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows, Community Gardens, in a.m -- 1 male
Wood Duck, 1 adult and 1 imm. White-crowned Sparrow, 8 Purple Finch.
 
 From Jerry Connolly:
10/08 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW,
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (8), (wood edge to the right of the outhouse
near the entrance to Willard's Island at dusk)

 From Angela Dimmitt
10/08 - New Milford/Sunny Valley Preserve -- 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS in
milkweed field to south of Bird Lane.  (Dearth of  sparrows)

 From Marty Swanhall:
10/08 - Woodbury home feeder -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Frank Gallo, Sara DeAngelis & Nye Pichkhadze 
10/08 -  New Canaan, New Canaan Nature Center, late afternoon -- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch

 From Ernie Harris:
10/07 - New Haven, Lighthouse Pt Park -- 4 GOLDEN EAGLE, 11 PEREGRINE
FALCON

 From Charlie Barnard and Denise Jernigan:
10/08 - Stratford, Warehouse Pond -- 45 SNOW GEESE flying over 7:30
am.
McKinney NWR (RR tracks path) -- 1 GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, 9:30 am
Stratford Marina -- 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER

 From Hank Golet:
10/08 - Old Lyme, Buttonball Rd, gravel pit -- 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS,
2 DOWITCHER (both looked like Long Billed)

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/08 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- BROWN CREEPER, RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCH, BROWN THRASHER.

 From Greg Hanisek et al.:
10/08 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point hawk watch -- 17 SNOW GEESE, 3
NORTHERN PINTAILS

 From Jayne Amico:
10/08 - Southington yard --- Several PURPLE FINCHES, RED BREASTED
NUTHATCH, YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER