>From Tina Green- 10/14 (7:04-8:31) Grace Salmon Park,Westport Black-bellied Plover -30+ Killdeer -30+ Semipalmated Plover -2 Spotted Sandpiper -1 Greater Yellowlegs -2 Great Blue Heron -5 Great Egret -1 Snowy Egret -5 Osprey -1 Belted Kingfisher -1 Downey Woodpecker -2

The Important Bird Area at Cove Island Park will be featured on WNPR on Thursday's edition of BirdNote. For further details please see: http://www.cpbn.org/program/birdnote or http://www.birdnote.org/ The show will air at 5:48am and 8:58pm and will afterwards be available to hear on the WNPR website. In other news, I had a bunch of PINE SISKINS fly over this morning at the Audubon Center at Bent of the River in Southbury. I only heard them so I can't estimate #'s. Donna Rose Smith had five in a tree near the barn just a little while ago. On another subject, there is now a website, courtesy of Long Island Soundkeeper, dedicated to the effort to preserve Long Beach West in Stratford, which can be found here: http://www.longbeachwest.com/ If you live in Stratford or have friends or family there, please make sure you/they know about Question 7 and check out the website for more details. Thanks! Patrick Patrick M. Comins Director of Bird Conservation Audubon Connecticut pcomins@audubon.org http://iba.audubon.org/iba/viewState.do?state=US-CT Bent of the River Sanctuary 185 East Flat Hill Road Southbury, CT 06488 Phone: (203)264-5098 x305 or (203)264-5180 x305 Fax: (203)264-6332