From Paul Cianfaglione: 10/16/13 - East Hartford, Hockanum River Linear Trail -- 5 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE. Also, 2 WINTER WREN. From Frank Mantlik: 10/16/13 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd, McKinney NWR, "Warehouse" Pond -- w/ Tina Green; 8 juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, 2 female Northern Pintail. We did not see the previous Clay-colored Sparrow. Stratford, Broad St, Stratford Marina -- 22 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS.  Incredible number of yellowlegs for this late date: 138 Greater Yellowlegs, 3 Lesser Yellowlegs. From Jerry Connolly: 10/16/13 - Madison, Bauer Park-- BLUE GROSBEAK (first winter), LINCOLN'S SPARROW, BOBOLINK. Grosbeak and sparrow seen in the NW corner of the Public Garden. I ran into Sol Satin who mentioned that he had a first winter BLGR couple of days earlier at the opposite end of the Public Garden. From Marty Swanhall: 10/16/13 - Woodbury -- 2 Pine Siskins in grey birch tree. From Ernie Harris: 10/16/13 - Bolton Backyard -- 7:30 to 8:30 AM; PURPLE FINCH (f). From Michael Aurelia: 10/16/13 - Stratford, Long Beach West -- late morning; immature Snow Goose visible from the parking lot and mixing with various gulls. From Dan Rottino: 10/16/13 - Madison, Bauer Farm -- 4:30 PM; 1 BLUE GROSBEAK. Actually the bird is quite brown! From Bev Propen: 10/16/13 - Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Ctr -- 10 AM to 1 PM; 3 JUVENILE YELLOW CROWNED NIGHT HERONS on marsh. From Jacob Musser with Sara Zagorski: 10/16/13 - Madison, Bauer Farm -- around 2 PM; CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in the southern part of the community garden. In general, the community garden was quite active with lots of sparrows, and there may be more of interest in there. Also, I spoke with Jerry Connolly about the location of the Blue Grosbeak (which we did not see). He described it as being in the extreme Northwest corner of the main community garden proper, which is a small garden with short but thick brush. From Patrick Comins: 10/15/13 - Southbury, Training School Pond -- Greater White-fronted Goose. Southbury, Cassidy Road -- 3 Lincoln's Sparrows and a White-crowned Sparrow (A few more WcSp heard calling) in the second brush pile in from Purchase Brook Road. No sign of the 3 Vesper Sparrows that Russ had in the morning though.  From Donald Haight: 10/15/13 - Somers yard -- late in the afternoon; a Clay-colored Sparrow appeared twice at my feeders.  This is a life bird for me, so it was good to read of other reports around the state. From Frank Gallo & Co: 10/13/13 - Milford, Milford Point -- "Big Sit" 82 species; 1 Adult Snow Goose, 1 Common Raven, 1 Black Vulture, 1 Black Scoter, 1 American Golden-Plover, 2 American Bitterns, 2 Northern Gannets.