We have reached the point in April where any species normally arriving in May can been found now. There are so many records so that they are meaningless. In contrast to the expected arrivals, I concentrated on the late departures. 1875 Fox Sparrow Portland 1887 Bufflehead Portland 1889 Lesser Scaup East Hartford 1947 40 Red-breasted Merganser Bridgeport 1947 Merlin East Windsor Hill 1949 Ring-necked Duck Fairfield 1949 White-crowned Sparrow New Britain 1951 Henslow's Sparrow West Hartford 1952 Long-tailed Duck Noank 1952 215 Red-breasted Merganser Groton Long Pt. 1952 Dickcissel Wethersfield 1952 Evening Groabeak Glastonbury 1953 Bufflehead Westport, Compo Beach 1953 Evening Grosbeak Norwichtown 1954 Common Moorhen Wethersfield 1977 White-winged Scoter Mansfield 1977 Long-tailed Duck Mansfield 1983 Blue Grosbeak Avon 1984 King Eider Greenwich 1985 Long-tailed Duck New Hartford, Nepaug Res. 1985 Great Cormorant Greenwich, Greenwich Pt. 1989 Chick-wills-widdow Hamden, Lake Wintergreen 1990 Yellow-headed Blackbird Clinton 1992 Red-necked Grebe New Hartford, Nepaug Res. 1993 Pine Siskin Torrington 1995 Presumed Little x Snowy Egret Hybrid Madison, Hammonasset St. Pk. 1996 Common Teal Milford, Milford Pt. 1996 Summer Tanager Guilford, Residence 1996 25 White-throated Sparrow Westport, Sherwood Is. St. Pk. 1997 Eurasian Wigeon South Windsor Sta. 43 1999 Tufted Duck Litchfield, Bantam Lake 1999 Orchard Oriole Ansonia 2000 Red-throated Loon Hamden, Lake Whitney 2001 Black-tailed Godwit Waterford, Harkness Mem. St. Pk.