[CT Daily] 02/24/2008

[Roy Harvey]

 From Julian Hough:
2/24 - Torrington, Industrial Park -- 5+ PINE GROSBEAKS (all fem/imm)
feeding with mixed flock of robins and Cedar Waxwings in roadside
scrub and pines.  From Torrington, follow 202 east then 183 north.
After several miles, turn left on Ella Grasso Avenue into the
Industrial area. Drive past the green silo on your left and continue
down the hill, past the Federal Direct building and offices. The birds
were in the pines and berry bushes that border the road here.

 From Jim Dugan:
2/24 - Derby, Housatonic River by Yale boathouse -- White-winged
Scoter (reported one week ago) continues.

 From Perry Green
2/24 - Winsted, east side of Highland Lake -- around 7 AM, at Thistle
Feeder, 2 COMMON REDPOLLS.

 From Libby Ross: 
2/24 - Darien, Backyard -- 1 COMMON REDPOLL.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
2/24 - Canton, Barbourtown Road -- 1 adult NORTHERN SHRIKE, 2 PURPLE
FINCH.

 From Christopher Lovell:
2/24 - Trumbull yard -- Approx 25-30 Common Redpolls at the feeders
this morning, joined by a
Red-breasted Nuthatch and a Common Raven calling from the top of the
Booth Hill tower.

 From Maria Stockmal:
2/24 - Derby, Osborndale State Park -- Winter Wren, Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker, two Black Vultures.

 From Scott Kruitbosch:
2/24 - Stratford yard -- 1 BROWN CREEPER, 1 WINTER WREN, 1
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER.

 From Jamie Meyers:
2/25 - Canton yard (Meyers Wildlife Sanctuary) -- about 15 PINE
SISKINS, many singing and vocalizing loudly, with a couple of PURPLE
FINCHES mixed in, some mobbing a sunning Red-shouldered Hawk.  First
relatively uncommon finch activity in my yard in some time despite
recent reports of numerous redpolls nearby earlier this month.

 From Mardi & Towny Dickinson:
2/24 - Westport, Compo Beach -- 2 Purple Sandpipers on sandbar.