There's a second and much larger push of CT coastal Red-wings now (ie, early November). Lighthouse Point Park Hawkwatch will often get dawn numbers in the tens of thousands, in a couple hours' time. Grackles will also move with them (in the hundreds of thousands, and at least once recently, an estimated 3 million!). They look like miles of smoke on the eastern horizon, and it's a spectacle well worth the cold temperatures and the early hour.
I hope you don't get these kinds of numbers at your feeder, that might be inconvenient!
Red-wing Blackbirds can be common up until coastal Christmas Counts as well. I think that by early December, they are much rarer inland.
Steve MayoBethany
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Subject: [CT Birds] Red Wings
Cathy Rado
Fairfield Beach Area
Red Wing Blackbirds at the feeder this morning. Where did they come from so late in the season!
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There's a second and much larger push of CT coastal Red-wings now (ie, early November). Lighthouse Point Park Hawkwatch will often get dawn numbers in the tens of thousands, in a couple hours' time. Grackles will also move with them (in the hundreds of thousands, and at least once recently, an estimated 3 million!). They look like miles of smoke on the eastern horizon, and it's a spectacle well worth the cold temperatures and the early hour.
I hope you don't get these kinds of numbers at your feeder, that might be inconvenient!
Red-wing Blackbirds can be common up until coastal Christmas Counts as well. I think that by early December, they are much rarer inland.
Steve MayoBethany
From: cathy via CTBirds <ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org>
To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 10:18 AM
Subject: [CT Birds] Red Wings
Cathy Rado
Fairfield Beach Area
Red Wing Blackbirds at the feeder this morning. Where did they come from so late in the season!
Sent from my iPhone
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