Sorry, a day late. When I arrived this am I was unhappy to find a strong wind blowing through the Hollow, which made me rush to put on the jacket I wasn't going to need. And my drive the length of BH Road was very quiet compared to my trip last week and our walk on Sunday. I guess the birds were hunkered down too, or putting on their jackets. Once I turned onto Barlow Mill Road, however, the wind seemed to abate a bit (maybe because I was outside the confines of the Hollow or because of the direction of travel). And I found the northern end of that road very birdy indeed, especially at the old overgrown clear-cut area on the right. Highlights were an Acadian Flycatcher way up at the north end, the Brown Creeper I missed last week and the number of Purple Finches, more than I've ever noted there before. I saw at least 5 (three females) and judging from the number I could hear singing there were more than that. I had one male right out over the road, singing away, and another perched just 15 feet back. Maybe there are actually so many that territory is becoming an issue. (Note: there are also Warbling Vireos in that area, and I always have to stand and listen for a while to be sure which is which). I now think I may have heard the Acadian last week, but there was a Least Flycatcher in the same area and I suspect I didn't listen carefully enough, because I have never had Acadian there before. I didn't hear the Least at all today. There now seem to be about as many Lousiana Waterthrushes as Northerns, perhaps more. Some are way up on Barlow Mill Rd. Ebird list: (Some of these numbers are estimates and VERY conservative) Boston Hollow/Barlow Mill, Windham, US-CT May 20, 2014 9:15 AM - 1:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 5.0 mile(s) 45 species Wood Duck 1 Mallard 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 15 Blue-headed Vireo 15 very low estimate. they are singing all along both roads. Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 1 Winter Wren 2 Veery 4 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 8 Gray Catbird 6 European Starling 6 Ovenbird 25 Worm-eating Warbler 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 6 Northern Waterthrush 6 Black-and-white Warbler 8 Common Yellowthroat 2 American Redstart 6 Magnolia Warbler 2 Blackburnian Warbler 5 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 4 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 10 Canada Warbler 4 Eastern Towhee 6 Chipping Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Common Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Baltimore Oriole 2 Purple Finch 8 American Goldfinch 2 Don Morgan Coventry