Note: What may not be obvious from the limited list of birds included in the daily report is that there were lots of warblers all (or almost all) over CT today, but of course most of them were more common species. From Glenn Williams: 05/16/13 - Mystic yard -- early morning; 2 BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, late RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, two late PURPLE FINCH. From Dave Provencher: 05/16/13 - Norwich yard -- Cape May Warbler sang once as it moved through backyard early Thursday morning. From Tina Green: 05/16/13 - Fairfield, Birdcraft -- 2 Hooded Warbler. From Kathy Van Der Aue: 05/16/13 - Fairfield, Birdcraft -- Banding; the place was jumping! Hooded Warbler, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson's Warbler. From Lynn Jones: 05/16/13 - Stratford Yard -- 7:30 to 8:00 AM; Blackburnian Warbler. From Bill Asteriades: 05/16/13 - Glastonbury, Old Maids Lane near Nayaug School -- 1 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, 2 male BOBOLINKS and 2 COMMON RAVEN. Riverfront Park -- 1 male WILSON'S WARBLER and 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. From Lorraine Gundersen, Lesley Weissman-Cook: 05/16/13 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- Blackburnian Warbler. From Frank Mantlik w/ Scott K and Charlie B: 05/16/13 - Stratford, Wooster Park (Freeman) -- 3 Bay-breasted Warblers, 2 Blackburnian Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 or 2 Swainson's Thrush. Community Garden on Connors Ln -- Wilson's Warbler, Lincoln's Sparrow, 6-7 Bobolinks ( with Scott Kruitbosch). From Tom Murray: 05/16/13 - Kent(?), North Kent Rd -- Hooded Warbler. From Mark Scott with Dori Sosensky, Richard Payne, Kerry [sp.?] Conrad, Richard Prum, Sol Satin and many observers: 05/16/13 - New Haven/Hamden, East Rock Park, in variety of spots, including Giant Steps, river path, Trowbridge Drive -- 20 warbler species, including Tennessee Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Wilson's Warbler. Also Gray-cheeked Thrush, Acadian flycatcher, White-crowned Sparrow. From Paul Carrier: 05/16/13 - Cornwall(?), Cornwall River Rd north -- 19 Warbler Species. Best was a Wilson's Warbler seen and singing across the river. Also 5 Vireo species incl a Philadelphia Vireo. On the way back to Harwinton -- 8 Bobolink in field, a dead Swainson's Thrush in the road, and the bird of the day was an OLIVE SIDED FLYCATCHER in big open wet area on Creamery Hill Rd in Cornwall. From Roy Harvey: 05/16/13 - Naugatuck, Naugatuck State Forest, from Hunters Mountain Rd -- 5:55 AM to 12:55 PM; 2 Blackburnian Warblers, several Hooded Warblers, 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 Brown Thrasher. From Kathy Van Der Aue: 05/16/13 - Southport, yard -- For the second day in a row we have a Brown Thrasher at the feeder. They used to nest in the tangles under our Forsythia bushes but I haven't seen them in some years. They are birds of "Special Concern" here in Connecticut, so it's really nice to have one, if only for a day or two. From Nick Bonomo: 05/16/13 - East Hartford, Cabela's -- 4 UPLAND SANDPIPER, BROWN THRASHER, 10 GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARK all behind the fences. Glastonbury, Old Maids Ln -- 3 BROWN THRASHER, COMMON RAVEN, ORCHARD ORIOLE. Portland, Wangunk Meadows -- SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Portland, Rte 17A south of meadows -- BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. From Greg Hanisek: 05/16/13 - Watertown, Artillery Road -- 9 BLACK VULTURES, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, 2 HOODED WARBLERS. From Angela Dimmitt: 05/16/13 - New Milford -- Cliff Swallows back at Boardman's Bridge on Route 7. From Sara Zagorski: 05/16/13 - West Hartford, Rt 44 powelines -- Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow-billed cuckoo was a nice surprise, as was a Philadelphia Vireo. From Russ Smiley: 05/16/13 - Glastonbury, Meshomasic State Forest -- Blackburnian Warbler, Wilson's Warbler. From David Keller 05/16/13 - Trumbull, Old Mine Park by the pond at the parking lot -- pair of CLIFF SWALLOWS, apparently nesting. From Mike DiGiorgio: 05/16/13 - Madison -- A walk down Northern Summer Hill Road in Madison, CT produced the following birds this morning about 8:00 AM; drumming Ruffed Grouse, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black Vultures. From Bob MacDonnell: 05/16/13 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- what looks like a hybrid Little Blue x Tri-colored Heron this morning in the Meig's Point pond. Overall, more mottled looking than LBH with white feathers in the under wing, very long two-tone bill and dull yellowish legs. It landed near 2 LBHs and then was chased away by one of them. Also, on Willard's Island, Blackburnian Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Swainson's Thrush. From Mark Szantyr: 05/16/13 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- I saw a bird that is possibly the bird Bob saw this morning and it is certainly one of the hybrid Tricolored X Little Blue Herons, now returning for the third year. This bird looks roughly like a little blue but has a slightly muted pale stripe down the throat and ventral surface of the neck, all dark underparts with contrasting white thighs. The bird spent all 1.5 hours i observed it in the pools and marsh east of the Nature Center. Again, these birds represent the first documentation anywhere of this hybrid combination and it is incredibly fortunate to have documented the plumage changes and transitions in their first three years. This is the good stuff! (Later, after reviewing photos by Bob, "I am not sure if this is the same bird i had this evening.") From Jack Swatt: 05/15/13 - Wolcott yard -- Wednesday at dusk, an AMERICAN WOODCOCK displaying in the neighborhood. 05/16/13 - 1 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW foraging beneath my feeders all morning long.