[CT Daily] 03/16/2008 Tundra Swans, Pine Grosbeaks

[Roy Harvey]

 From Peary and BK Stafford:
3/16 - Washington, Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Association
-- Two PINE GROSBEAKS (in the heavily laden crabapple tree behind
interpretive trail signpost 8), 3 FOX SPARROWS

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
3/16 - Simsbury, Woodchuck Hill Rd/Route 309 -- 9 PINE GROSBEAKS.
3/16 - Canton, Canton feeder -- 60+ COMMON REDPOLL. 

 From Renee Baade:
3/16 Suffield -- 12:30 PM, 2 TUNDRA SWANS still present in farm field
pond on east side of Hwy 159, just south of Thrall Ave.  Same field
pond where the '07 Pink-footed Geese had been found.

 From Nancy Eaton:
3/16 - Suffield -- (9 a.m.) The two Tundra Swans I reported yesterday
continued this morning at the same location on East St. (159N) between
Bridge St. and Thrall Ave.

 From Carole Donagher:
3/15 - Farmington backyard -- 3 COMMON REDPOLLS at sunflower hearts
feeder

 From Peary and BK Stafford
3/16 - New Preston, South shore of Lake Waramaug - REDHEAD.

 From Frank Mantlik & NHBC group:
3/16 - Westport, Sherwood Island State Park -- several Wilson's Snipe,
1 Eastern Meadowlark.
Westport, Saugatuck River I-95 overpass -- 2 Peregrine Falcons.
Westport, Burying Hill Beach -- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Westport/Southport, foot of Sasco Creek Rd., mouth of Sasco Creek,
Southport Beach -- Northern Pintail, Bonapart's Gulls.

 From Chris Loscalzo:
3/16 - Hamden, on West Rock Ridge -- one pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS.

 Fran and Tom Holloway
3/16 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park.  We saw the immature  GOSHAWK
again, this time at the traffic circle at around 2:20pm.  

 From Paul Carrier:
3/16 - ??????, yard -- 80+ Common Redpolls, 4 Pine Siskin.

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
3/16 - Bloomfield, Reservoir # 3 -- 4 AMERICAN WOODCOCK. (6:15-6:30
am)

 From Joe Wojtanowski & Paul Desjardins:
3/16 - East Granby, East Granby Farms -- EASTERN MEADOWLARK.
 
 From Janet Weisner:
3/16 - Storrs, Horsebarn Hill Rd -- 1 GREATER WHITE FRONTED GOOSE in a
flock of about 2 dozen canadas. Apparently had been seen a couple days
ago in Mirror Lake on campus too.

 From Marty Swanhall
03/16 - Woodbury, home feeder -- one RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

 From Larry Nichols:
3/16 - Glastonbury, Wangunk Meadows (Glastonbury end) -- 7am, Male
Northern Pintail.

 From John Marshall:
3/16 - Milford, Milford Point (CACC) -- at 8:00 AM,?18 COMMON REDPOLLS
Woodmont, Oyster River? -- at 10:00 AM, 1 ICELAND GULL

 From Greg Hanisek et al.:
3/16 - Old Lyme, Great Island -- dark morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK.
Old Saybrook, Dock & Dine -- LESSER SCAUP
CHESTER, ferry landing -- 3 BLACK VULTURES

 From John Marshall:
3/16 - Watertown, Sand Bank Rd. -- at 6:00 PM, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE

 From Luke Tiller:
3/16 - Wilton, Allen's Meadows -- 2 Eastern Meadowlarks, 2 American
Woodcock displaying.

 From Frank Gallo
3/16 - Westport, Sherwood Island State Park -- 5 Northern Pintail
flying past  the point. 8 Bonaparte's Gulls.

 From Christopher Lovell:
3/16 - Trumbull -- 40-50 Common Redpolls swarming the nyjer feeders,
sometimes overflowing onto the sunflower chip feeders and also the
ground below.  There has been at least one here every day since
12/17/2007.

 From Luke Tiller:
3/15 - ??????, Aspetuck Reservoir -- male REDHEAD.
??????, Ash Creek -- 1 male NORTHERN SHOVELER.
Bridgeport, Captains Cove Marina -- 30 LESSER SCAUP.
Westport, Burying Hill -- continuing Lesser Black-backed Gull.

 From Andrew Dasinger:
3/15 - near Cabela's, East Hartford -- 1 Iceland Gull, with flock of
gulls at late afternoon roost in flooded field northwest of Cabela's. 


Migration Notes:

First report of Piping Plover (Milford, Silver Sands State Park)