[CT Daily] 04/06/2008

[Roy Harvey]

 From Roy Harvey:
4/06 - Stratford -- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in the marsh along
Lordship Blvd, northwest of the entrance to the airport.
4/06 - Milford, Silver Sands State Park -- two Wilson's Snipe.

 From Angela Dimmitt:
4/06 - Sherman/Wimisink marsh -- pair of NORTHERN PINTAILS.

 From Meredith Sampson w/ Brian O'Toole & "First Sundays" birding
group:
4/06 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point --  at least 12, possibly more
than 20 NORTHERN GANNETS, 7 BONAPARTE'S GULLS.

 From Meredith Sampson:
4/06 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 6 NORTHERN GANNETS (5-6 p.m.)

 From Bill Asteriades:
4/06 - Glastonbury, Glastonbury Meadows -- 16 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 4
WHITE CROWNED SPARROWS (3 Juv.'s) 

 From Steve Spector:
4/06 - Milford, Charles Island -- adult Northern Gannet.

 From Mike and Wanda Moccio
4/06 - Stamford, Shippan Point -- 5 NORTHERN GANNETS

 From Greg Hanisek:  
4/06 - Middlebury, Larkin Pond on South Street -- male LONG-TAILED
DUCK (uncommon inland especially on a small body of water)
Watertown, Sand Bank Road -- c 15 WILSON'S SNIPE 

 From Karen Fiske:
4/06 - Durham- Tuttle Road -- 3 BLACK VULTURES roosting in a tree
Madison, Hammonasett State Park, Meig's Point Nature Center field -- 1
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER.


 From Frank Mantlik:
4/05 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd, RR trail marsh restoration -- 5PM,
1 TUNDRA SWAN.  Presumably the same bird discovered in the area weeks
ago.
Long Beach (Oak Bluff Ave.) -- at least 10 BOAT-TAILED GRACKLES (Only
1 female).

 From Mark Szantyr:
4/05 - Mansfield/Windham, Pleasant Valley Road, Stearn's Farm pond at
the bend -- drake Blue-winged Teal in the evening.

 From Ted Gilman:
4/05 - Greenwich, Audubon Center -- YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER in woods
next to orchard.