[CT Daily] 03/25/2008

[Roy Harvey]

 From Kevin Burgio:
3/25 - Storrs, Pumping Station Rd -- 1 male RUFFED GROUSE; drumming
right off road past 1st pumping station.
3/25 - Storrs, HEEP Site -- 1 BROWN CREEPER; near new parking lot
construction.

 From Jim Harris:
3/25 - Columbia yard -- 2 BROWN CREEPERS, 5 COMMON REDPOLLS

 From Janet Mehmel:
3/24 - Goshen, Hageman Shean Road feeders - - 50+ COMMON REDPOLLS,
some males in breeding plumage.

 From Annette Cunniffe:
3/25 -- Greenwich -- pair of BLUE-WINGED TEAL mixed in with Mallards
in small pond on Pecksland Rd. by stop sign and Meadow Dr.

 From Ralph Amodei:
3/24-25 - Bridgeport, Seaside Park Pond - 1 drake EURASIAN WIDGEON.

 From Donna Lorello:
3/25 - Branford yard -- 1 male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 1 Brown
Creeper.

From John Maynard
3/25 - Durham, Greenbacker farm pond, Route 68 -- 2 SNOW GEESE
standing out among flock of 200 CANADA GEESE.

 From Peter Hornak:
3/24 - Orange, Turkey Hill School -- 3 BLACK VULTURES.

 From Dave Rosgen, w/ Frank Gallo, Rob Van Dyke, & John Eykelhoff:
3/24 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake, 5 p.m. 'til dark) -- 2
Northern Pintails, 1 Lesser Scaup.
(White Memorial's Pt. Folly Marsh) -- 9 Rusty Blackbirds

 From Dave Rosgen:
3/24 - Litchfield, S. Lake St. (White Memorial's Little Pond at noon)
-- 13 Rusty Blackbirds.
White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Feeders) -- 1 Fox Sparrow

 From Tom Cuchara:
3/22 - Hammonasset Beach State Park, Meig's Point -- 7pm, 1 Least
Bittern flew over the marsh, near the end of the big parking lot and
landed about 100 feet from the road that leads to the picnic benches.
Fired off a few record shots.  He's hard to find even with
binoculars!!  

 From Arthur Shippee
3/25 - Hamden, North Lake Dr. -- 1 BROWN CREEPER