[CT Daily] 09/18/2007

[Roy Harvey]

 From Charlie Barnard
9/18 - Stratford, Long Beach -- NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. This
bird was of the race alterus, which is from the James Bay area. 

 From Paul Carrier:
9/18 - Winsted/Torrington, old rt 8 south of MDV -- 18 PURPLE FINCH, 9
species of warbler including 1 MOURNING WARBLER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 1
LINCOLN'S SPARROW.

 From Jerry Connolly:
9/18 - Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park -- 1 COMMON EIDER
(female) end of moraine trail 6 PM - digiscoped.
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (3) nature center
parking lot 6:45 PM

 From Andrew Dasinger:
9/17 - Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, 2 PM -- 1 Buff-breasted
Sandpiper on the grassy knoll at southeast corner of Nature Center
parking lot

 From Gina Nichol with Sunrise Birding Secret Shorebird walk:
9/18 - Westbrook, Menunketesuck Flats -- LITTLE BLUE HERON

 From Patrick Comins:
9/18 - Southbury, Audubon Center at Bent of the River, 9 AM -- 2
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, also PURPLE FINCHES, including an adult male at
the feeders and a calling RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

 From Jan Collins:
9/17 - Somers yard -- 5PM 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Bev Propen:
9/18 - Orange yard -- 9AM, 1 RED BREASTED NUTTHATCH

 From Sarah Johnston
9/18 - Farmington -- 1 RED BREASTED NUTHATCH (female) at suet feeder. 

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Roger Johnson, Jamie Fischer, Keith Cudworth,
Paul Desjardins, & Max Ehrman:
9/17 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) - 8
Black Vultures, 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 6 Red-breasted Nuthatches,
31 Purple Finches

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ John Eykelhoff & Leo Kulinski:
9/17 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial's Cemetery Pond)
-- 1 SORA