[CT Daily] 03/28/2008 BULLOCK'S ORIOLE

[Roy Harvey]

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 From Ingrid & Tom Schaefer:
3/28/08 - Canaan, 60 Orchard Street -- Bullock's Oriole under feeder
at first light 6:45am.

 From Nick Bonomo, Greg Hanisek, Roy Harvey, Neil Currie, Randy
Domina:
3/28 - Canaan , 60 Orchard Street -– first winter male Bullock's
Oriole at 8:05 for five minutes or more, and again before 8:30.  Very
good looks (and poor photographs).

Bullock's Oriole Notes:
1) We had negative reports from later in the morning, no reports at
all, positive or negative, from the afternoon.
2) From the intersection of Rt 7 and Rt 44 in Canaan, go north on Rt 7
for less than half a mile.  Orchard St is the first left turn.
3) Nick Bonomo posted some pictured of the Bullock's Oriole:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nbonomo/BullockSOriole
4) Nick also suggested that providing the homeowners, Ingrid & Tom
Schaefer, with oranges to put out (sliced in half, of course) might
make the bird more cooperative.
5) Greg Hanisek posted an interesting summary of the history of
Bullock's Oriole in Connecticut over on CTBirds.

 From Paul Carrier:
3/28 - Harwinton, yard feeders -- After 2 weeks of only 16 Common
Redpolls at the feeder, when it was snowing in the morning there were
160 plus Common Redpolls.  At 2:45, I saw I believe the same flock
here again, and in with this flock was a classic HOARY REDPOLL male.
This was the second male I have seen this year, and this bird was the
frostiest.  If it stays I will post it to CTBirds.

 From Kevin Finnan:
3/28 - Litchfield, Beach Street, field beyond the Holstein farm -- a
flock of about 200 Snow Geese shortly before 4:00 PM.

 From Ian Gereg and Olaf Soltau:
3/28 - Litchfield, Beach Street -- 250+ Greater Snow Geese (incl. 2
blue phase adults) in corn field behind Meadow Ridge Farm

 From Joe Wojtanowski:
3/28 - East Granby, Peak Mountain Hawk Watch -- EASTERN MEADOWLARK,
COMMON RAVEN, 19 SNOW GEESE flying low, NE looking for a place to
land, Suffield?

 From Hank Golet:
3/28 - Westbrook, Menunketesuck Flats --18 PURPLE SANDPIPERS (these
purple sandpipers are not on rocks as typically seen but are feeding
on the gravel bar with turnstones, sanderlings, bb plovers, and dunlin
and they can be lumped in with dunlin very easily because of where
they are..)

 From Lisa Marie Gagnon:
3/27 - Mansfield -- 3 Snow Geese