From Bill Asteriades, Rick Macsuga & Mark Dineen: 01/16/10 - Stratford, Long Beach (near 2 small cedar trees) -- 1 male BARROW's GOLDENEYE, 37 BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE (at dawn - 7:08 AM). Stamford, Cummings Beach Park -- 1 SNOW GOOSE continues. Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 1 KING EIDER continues and 1 AMERICAN BITTERN continues (across from Nature Center). From Jay Kaplan: 01/16/10 - Farmington -- Harlequin Duck continues about 10 AM just to the south of Riverside cemetery off Garden Street. Take south entrance to the cemetery as there is some construction blocking the one lane cemetery road from the north. From John Marshall: 01/16/10 - Farmington -- Harlequin Duck up river from the cemetery, seen from the Cowles property off Meadow St. Between 8:45 and 9:00. From Sara Zagorski, Tina Green and Brian Toal: 01/16/10 - Windsor, Northwest Park -- Red-headed Woodpecker continues at beginning of Brookside Trail near barn. Also Brown Creeper. From Peter DeGennaro: 01/16/10 - Farmington - the Harlequin was in the river behind Riverside cemetery off Garden Street somewhat associating with a few Ring-neck Ducks. Still there when I left around 1:00. From Harold Moritz and Sheila Gleason: 01/16/10 - Farmington -- Despite reports of it being south, the Harlequin Duck was north (downriver) of the cemetery at around noon. We came in north entrance, parked by construction, walked down onto icy gravel bar along riverbank, which affords a good view up and down river. Bird was diving just north of the little dam to the north of the cemetery. Scope gives best view, other waterfowl there, too. From Christopher Lovell: 01/16/10 - Farmington -- Harlequin Duck behind The Grist Mill, 30' from shore, at 2:38 PM. From Maria Stockmal: 01/16/10 - Derby -- Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, two Red-breasted Nuthatches. From Tina Green: 01/16/10 - Southport, Southport Beach(4PM,low tide) -- 5 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Westport, Burying Hill Beach -- LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. Stratford, Stratford Point -- 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at the entrance feeding on the White Pine cones, Eurasian Wigeon continues. From Bill Banks: 01/16/10 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- about 10:30, the KING EIDER was again off the end of the Moraine Trail at Hammonassett. There were 3 Common Eiders out by the rocks off of the point, and the King Eider was beyond all of the rocks, swimming with one of the Commons. It was not very hard to find, but a scope was necessary to view it. Also 2 Snow Buntings in the field by the nature center. From Buzz Devine: 01/16/10 - Naugatuck-Waterbury border along Platt Mill Road, in the vicinity of the Water Pollution Plant's sludge landfill that borders the river west of the Route 8 overpass -- 1640 hrs, female Northern Pintail. (But one week ago in this spot, a Pintail/Mallard hybrid.) From Dean Bonanno: 01/16/10 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park, end of morraine trail -- King Eider resting atop a rock, with male and female Common Eiders in the water a little beyond. Also a pair of Purple Sandpipers. From Dave Rosgen & Mike Doyle (in part): 01/16/10 - Litchfield, White's Woods Rd. (White Memorial Foundation's Little Pond Trail & Old Sewer Beds) - 3 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 4 Brown Creepers, 3 Fox Sparrows, 1 Purple Finch. From Mike Doyle: 01/16/10 - Litchfield, N. Shore Rd. (Bantam Lake's Outlet) -- 1 Snow Goose. From Brian Webster: 01/16/10 - Stratford yard/woods -- 1 Winter Wren. From Ed Yescott (State D.E.P. Encon Officer): 01/15/10 - Burlington, Johnnycake Mountain Rd. (J.M. Farm) -- 100 Snow Buntings. From Don Morgan: 01/15/10 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- a small flock (5 or 6) of American Pipits on the side of the road near the reclaimed marsh, just before the sharp left turn towards Meig's Point and the Nature center.