From Kevin Burgio: 5/27 - Hamden Backyard -- 8:13 AM, 1 singing MOURNING WARBLER outside my bedroom window. Singing for the past 15 minutes. From Paul Cianfaglione: 5/27 - Bloomfield, Penwood State Park -- 1 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. From Shaun Martin: 5/27 - Greenwich, Great Captains Island -- Royal Tern about 500 yards behind the island on the Long Island side. From Mark Aronson: 5/24-27 - New Haven, Whitney Avenue, in the vicinity of the Yale Divinity School Steeple and Whitney Avenue -- hawking Common Nighthawk nightly around 7:30 - 8:30. From Ernie Harris: 5/27 - Bolton backyard -- 6:30-7:30AM; BLACKBILLED CUCKOO. From Tim Antanaitis: 5/27 - East Hampton, Laurel Ridge -- 1 PINE SISKIN From Linda Rediker and Ralph Amodei 5/26 - Naugatuck, Naugatuck State Forest -- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in field at 5:10pm. From Craig Lawrence: 5/26 - Old Greenwich, CT, Greenwich Point Park -- SNOW GOOSE feeding in the cove area along Todd's Driftway near the park entrance. From Roy Zartarian: 5/26 - Newington, Young Farm -- BOBOLINKS, 2 males and 1 female seen. From Jim Bair: 5/26 - Beacon Falls, Rimmon Rd., field just north of Seymour Line -- Boblink (reliable spot for these birds, it seems). From Robert S White: 5/26 - Lyme, Hartman Park -- CERULEAN WARBLER, many heard, one seen. From Jim Bair: 5/26 - New Haven,l East Rock Park -- 1 Peregrine Falcom, flying by monument. From Bruce Finnan: 5/25 - Naugatuck, Naugatuck State Forest -- The Clay-colored Sparrow was present this afternoon in the field at the end of Hunter's Mountain Road in Naugatuck. It kept a VERY low profile. I thought perhaps it had moved on but then saw it once, sing briefly, and take off toward the woods by the NW (I think) corner of the field. From Chris Loscalzo: 5/25 - East Haven, mouth of the Farm River -- eleven BLACK SKIMMERS. From Jerry Connolly: 5/25 - Hammonasset State Park (Willard's Isle) -- OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, WILSON'S WARBLER, BROWN THRASHER From David Schonfeld: 5/25 - West Hartford, along powerline South of Rt. 44 on Avon Mtn. -- 1 BREWSTER'S WARBLER (adult male backcross, "bee buzzzz bee"), 1 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER ("hic, 3 beers!"). From Ken Elkins with Steffanie Liskey, Mardi & Towne Dickinson: 5/25 - Milford, Milford Point sandbars -- 5:30-6:30pm (just after high tide), 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER, 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 13 species of shorebirds From Phil Asprelli: 5/25 - New Haven, East Rock Park -- Juvenile Black-billed Cuckoo in tree at the base of the giant steps across from Rice Field. From Paul Carrier 5/25 - Harwinton feeders -- a single PINE SISKIN. From Linda Vegliante, Andrew Dasinger, Paul Hicks, and Glenn Williams: 5/24 - Old Lyme, Griswold Point -- CASPIAN TERN East Lyme, Nehantic -- SWAINSON'S THRUSH, ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS Old Lyme, Beaver Brook Road(?) -- ALDER FLYCATCHER Old Lyme, Nehantic -- WHIP-POOR-WILL Madison, Hammonasset -- BLUE-WINGED TEAL, LITTLE BLUE HERON From Deb Bishop: 5/24 - New Hartford, Rt. 44 power lines -- 1 ORCHARD ORIOLE