Note: You know the birding is good when I need a longer Subject line. From Jim Bair: 10/31/10 - Milford, Milford Point -- 1 Le Conte's Sparrow seen at 6:12 p.m. by Townsend Dickinson and me, getting dark as tide nearing high. Also present were Sora (only bird that was cooperative), Nelson's Sparrow. Same location as previously noted. Rusty Blackbird among Cowbirds at feeder. From Nick Bonomo: 10/31/10 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park -- 3 Cave Swallows passed at 11:20. From Steve Mayo: 10/31/10 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park -- 13 CAVE SWALLOW (3rd day in a row for this species), 11 American Pipit, 25 Purple Finch, 27 Pine Siskin. 1 LINCOLN's SPARROW and 5 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW at/around Butterfly Garden. From Robert Dixon: 10/31/10 - Sterling, 179 Main St - female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD continues at feeder in backyard behind garage. Birders are welcome. Note: There is now an orange arrow marking the driveway. Also there will be workers in the yard this week building a chimney on our garden house, hopefully this won't be to disruptive. From Matt Hoyt: 10/31/10 - Milford, Silver Sands State Park -- 8:30 am, Cattle Egret on lawn to the west of the parking lot under and around the picnic tables before the board walk. From Roy Zartarian: 10/31/10 - East Hartford, Cabela's Pond -- two American Avocets feeding at the pond at 14:09. The Golden Plovers were around, then headed off to a different part of the field. From Jan Collins: 10/31/10 - East Hartford, Cabela's Pond -- 12-1 PM, 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS and 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER continue with great looks. The Avocets actively feeding in the pond, and the Plovers along with Killdeer in the grass just beyond the pond. From Fran D'Amico via Sara Zagorski: 10/31/10 - East Hartford, Rentschler Field, Cabela's Pond -- a continueing AMERICAN AVOCET and 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS in the pond. From Flo McBride via Nancy Specht: 10/31/10 - East Hartford, Rentschler Field, Cabela's Pond -- at 4:00 PM American Avocets continued. From Brian Kleinman: 10/31/10 - Windsor, at the Konica Minolta building, 500 Day Hill Road -- 2:00 PM, located an adult Barnacle Goose mixed in with about 200-300 Canada's. The bird was first observed feeding in the grass in front of the building, but then was flushed into the pond (only later to come out again). There was also one maybe two Cackling/hutchinsii Geese there as well. The building is on the left about 2 miles (east?) from the intersection with Route 187. From Jay Kaplan with Gil Kleiner: 10/31/10 - Windsor, off Day Hill Road, in front of the Konica Minolta Building -- at 3:15 PM, we couldn't find the Cackling Geese, the Barnacle Goose was quite easy to pick out amidst the several hundred Canadas feeding on the lawn in front of the building. The geese wre still present when we left past 3:45 PM. From Bill Asteriades, Andrew Dasinger, HAS walk: 10/31/10 - Glastonbury, Glastonbury Meadows -- 1 NORTHERN SHOVELER, 1 BROWN CREEPER, 1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 25 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS and 2 PURPLE FINCH. 56 species were noted. We ended the trip with a possible Lark Sparrow but unfortunately our views were hindered due to backlight. Attempts to relocate the bird were unsuccessful. From Brian O'Toole, Mike Warner: 10/31/10 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge -- Rough-legged Hawk. From Luke Tiller: 10/31/10 - Greenwich, Quaker Ridge -- The Tennessee Warbler continues in the upper fields at the site and an Orange-crowned was around the "Teenage Woods" area. Interestingly a group of birders from NYC had a Tennessee almost contemporaneously with my sighting down in the Orchard so maybe there are two Tennessee Warblers here at a surprisingly late date. The NY group also reported a continuing Lincoln's Sparrow. Later, 1 Golden Eagle, 1 Northern Goshawk and a few hundred Snow Geese. From Frank Gallo & Vanessa Mickan: 10/31/10 - Wallingford, Mackenzie Reservoir -- Cackling Goose and Greater White-fronted Goose around 11 AM. New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park -- A quick stop from 4:25 to 5:10 p.m. produced a slew of sparrows in the butterfly garden, including, 9 imm. White-crowned Sparrows feeding together with 1 Lincoln's Sparrow (among others). Middletown(?), Middletown Avenue Landfill off I91 -- 8 Black Vultures circling with 12 Turkey Vultures over the dump and highway around 2 p.m. I've seen them there twice before in the last two weeks. From Hank Golet: 10/31/10 - Old Lyme(?), Lord's Cove -- Took my boat up into Lord's Cove late this morning. A group 185 AMERICAN COOT is by far the most I have ever seen in the Cove. From From James Purcell and Alex Burdo: 10/31/10 - Fairfield, Penfield Reef -- 15 White-winged Scoters, 10 Black Scoters, 1 flyby Snow Bunting. Jennings Beach -- 1 Cattle Egret that quickly landed and then took off again towards Ash Creek. From Paul Desjardins: 10/31/10 - South Windsor, Station 43, Newberry Road section -- 3 Wilson's Snipe. Vibert Road section -- a Lincoln's Sparrow. From Keith Mueller: 10/31/10 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 5 White-winged Scoter, adult Northern Gannet, 1 American Bittern, Peregrine Falcon. East Hartford, Cabela's Pond -- American Ovocets. From Joey Lounsbury: 10/31/10 - Danbury yard -- 4 Purple Finches continue at my feeders. (2 females, 1 juvenile male, 1 adult male.) From Cynthia Ehlinger: 10/31/10 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- 4 pm, 6 Pine Siskins. From Ralph Amodei 10/31/10 - Orange, over Rte 1 -- one COMMON RAVEN. From Bonnie and Phil Witmer: 10/30/10 - Stratford, Stratford Point, on the beaches between the grasslands of the point and Stratford beach -- 4:30-4:00 PM, a pair of SNOW BUNTINGS.