[CT Daily] 10/15/2007

[Roy Harvey]

 From Rollin Tebbetts:
10/15 - Windosor Locks, Bradley Intl Airport -- Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

 From Greg Hanisek et al.:
10/15 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point hawk watch -- a major landbird
fight this morning included: 7 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS, 1,600 Tree
Swallows, 35 AMERICAN PIPITS, 1,200 American Robins, 650 Red-winged
Blackbirds, 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, 750 House Finches, 600 PURPLE
FINCHES.  The woods and edges included several BROWN CREEPERS, several
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, Winter Wren.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
10/14 - Avon, Route 44 -- 3 BLACK VULTURES.
10/15 - Hartford, Riverside Park Sewage Pond -- 1 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 4
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.

 From Hank Golet:
10/15 - Old Lyme, Lord Cove -- 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS terrorizing tree
swallows that were a little slow getting out of the marsh this cold
morning, 1 WILSON'S SNIPE.

 From Meredith Sampson:
10/15 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 7 immature WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, BROWN CREEPER.
Riverside, Twin Lakes Drive yard -- 4 adult & 9 immature WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, PURPLE FINCH.

 From Julian Hough:
10/15 - New Haven, Sea Street, City Point (not far from Long Wharf) --
11 White-crowned Sparrows (all juvs), 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 1 NELSON'S
SHARP-TAILED SPARROW

 From Christopher Lovell:
10/15 - Trunbull, Cricket Lane -- 2 COMMON RAVENS perched, flying and
calling

 From Bev Propen:
10/15 - Orange, backyard feeders -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH, 2 FEMALE
PURPLE FINCHES.

 From Larry Bausher:
10/14 – New Haven, East Rock Park –- 2 COMMON RAVENS.

 From Peary and BK Stafford
10/14 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of Steep Rock -- 8 Species of
sparrow, including 1 Vesper, Lincoln's and at least 20 White-crowned.

 From Cindi Kobak:
10/15 - North Guilford yard -- male PURPLE FINCH  at feeder,
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER at crabapple, BROWN CREEPER.

 From Brian O'Toole:
10/15 - Wilton, Allen's Meadow -- 10+ White-Crowned Sparrows, Vesper
Sparrow, 2 Pine Siskins, many Purple Finches, 2 Yellow-Bellied
Sapsuckers, 5 Eastern Meadowlarks, 10+ Pipits, 3 Black Vultures.

 From Carol Zipp:
10/15 - Hamden, yard & Brooksvale park -- one LINCOLN'S SPARROW
appears to be hanging around (seen over the past couple of weeks as
well as last night and this morning), PURPLE FINCH.

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
10/15 - Stratford, River Valley Rd. -- 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS at
feeders; 1 immature, 1 adult.

 From Steve & Charla Spector:
10/15 - Milford, Silver Sands SP -- 4:15-5:15 along entrance road near
path at bottom of sledding hill, hundreds of sparrows including a
Lincoln's Sparrow on the fencing, a group of 20 White-crowned in the
grass (only 1 adult).

 From Dori Sosensky and Dana Campbell:
10/15 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park, Meadow across from the
Butterfly Garden -- LINCOLN'S SPARROW, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in the
evening light, and two YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS.  Other birds seen
earlier in around the parkmany BROWN CREEPERS, 3 adult WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS.

 From John Marshall:
10/14 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Feeders)
-- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 5 White-crowned Sparrows, 12 Purple
Finches

 From Dave Rosgen:
10/14 - Winchester, 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary) -- 2
Red-breasted Nuthatches;
Barkhamsted, Rt. 318 (Barkhamsted Reservoir as viewed from the Saville
Dam) -- 1 RED-THROATED LOON, 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER;
Rt. 181 (MDC's Lower Greenwoods Recreation Area) -- 1 American
Woodcock, 6 Winter Wrens, 1 White-crowned Sparrow, 7 Rusty Blackbirds;
 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Daren Jacklin & John Eykelhoff:
10/13 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) -- 1
PINE SISKIN, 3 Purple Finches;
(White Memorial's Interpretive Trail) -- 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
(Litchfield Town Beach) - 20 Rusty Blackbirds;
S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond, 5 p.m. 'til dark) -- 12
Blue-winged Teal, 2 Wilson's Snipe, 3 Rusty Blackbirds;

 From Mike Doyle:
10/13 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Old Sewer
Beds) -- 1 Winter Wren, 1 Lincoln's Sparrow, 5 White-crowned Sparrows
10/14 - same place -- 5 White-crowned Sparrows

 From Aaron & Sandy Barriger:
10/14 - Madison, Hammonasset SP -- Peregrine Falcon (flying high over
Meigs Point); Eastern Meadowlark (field by Cedar Island trail);
White-crowned Sparrow (Campground)

 From Steve Mayo:
10/14 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park --  4 Peregrine Falcons, 100
Purple Finch, 80 American Pipit, 4 Eastern Meadowlark, 1 Lincoln's
Sparrow.

 From Meredith Sampson w/ Annette Cunniffe:
10/14 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point --  5 immature WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, PURPLE FINCH, 2 BROWN CREEPERS, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, TENNESSEE
WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER (1st fall), YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO.

 From Melissa Baston:
10/14 Cheshire yard - 4 juvenile YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS drumming,
vocalizing, and chasing.

 From Bob Bitondi:
10/14 - Pomfret, yard birds -- 5 Purple Finch, immature White crowned
Sparrow