From Nick Ferrauolo:
06/01/14 - Middlefield, Wadsworth Falls SP -- As of 2:15; 1 male
Olive-sided Flycatcher on the other side of the bridge high in a tree.
From Judy Moore:
06/01/14 - Woodbridge, Woodbridge Community Gardens -- around 8 AM;
the Olive-sided Flycatcher was still in the same area as previously
described.
From Dan Mercurio and Steve Spector:
06/01/14 - Woodbridge, Woodbridge Community Gardens -- Olive-sided
Flycatcher carries on.
From John Marshall and Tina Green:
06/01/14 - Kent, N. Kent Rd, Housatonic WMA -- 8 AM (or earlier);
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CERULIAN WARBLER, take the path past the gate at
the end of the road, when the path open to a field there are a couple
of small hills covered with brush and small trees right in front of
you. The Chat was moving around on those little brushy hills past the
junk vehicle.
From Pam Holden:
06/01/14 - Colchester, Rt 149 (Westchester Rd), gravel pit between
Shailor Hill Rd & River Rd -- nesting Bank Swallows.
From John Weeks, Chris Chinni:
06/01/14 - East Granby, Copper Hill Golf Course parking lot --
Black-billed Cuckoo.
From Mark Scott:
06/01/14 - Hamden. New Haven -- Mourning Warbler as of 9:45 AM. The
bird was seen and heard along the river path, in low shrubbery next to
the first sharp left turn. This makes four mournings for me in one
spring, a record.
From Jim and Carol Zipp:
06/01/14 - Bethany -- great looks at a Mourning Warbler at Mendell's
Folly which is a section of the Bethany Land Trust. It was right near
the beaver dam (well, was a beaver dam a number of years ago) and
singing almost constantly. between 8 and 9 Sunday morning.
From Jacob Musser:
06/01/14 - West Haven, Sandy Point -- I had good looks at a Nelson's
Sparrow Sunday afternoon. I flushed several (3-4) /Ammodramus /in
total from a fairly small area, although only got a good look at the
one Nelson's. At least one other bird was very gray, and may also have
been Nelson's. The birds were all clustered on the longest spit (the
southern one). If you walk out on the left side of this spit, look in
the wet grass/marsh at the edge of the water just past the 2nd Piping
Plover enclosure. Also 2 Yellow-crowned Night Herons.
From Mike and Wanda Moccio:
06/01/14 - Easton, Trout Valley Nature Preserve -- 1:30 to 4:30 PM; 4
Acadian Flycatchers. 1 on a nest; 2 -3 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 1 Hooded
Warbler.
From Dan Cimbaro:
06/01/14 - Clinton, Clinton Town Beach -- 4 Boat-tailed Grackles -
all males - in the area immediately south of the parking lot. The
birds were moving back and forth between the beach, the adjoining
spartina grass, and a stand of trees.
From Cynthia Ehlinger with Debby Ethridge and First Sunday Bird
Walk group:
06/01/14 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point Park -- YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO
in woods southeast of Founder's Rock.
From Cindi Kobak:
06/01/14 - North Guilford yard -- YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO heard every day
for past week.
From Don Morgan:
06/01/14 - Ashford, Boston Hollow area -- 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM;
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1, Black-billed Cuckoo 1, Acadian Flycatcher 1,
Winter Wren 3, Blackburnian Warbler 4, Purple Finch 2,
From Robert Dixon:
06/01/14 - Sterling yard -- BLACK VULTURE, PURPLE FINCH (1m),
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL, COMMON RAVEN.
From Peter DeGennaro:
06/01/14 - Salisbury, from Lion's Head to Bear Mountain -- 2 Black
Vultures, 15+ Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers including a pair by a nest
above the parking lot, 2 Common Ravens, a few Bobolink.
Winsted -- singing Alder Flycatcher. Also 2 Black-billed Cuckoos in
the Lion's Head area .
From Arthur Shippee and Mary Porterfield:
06/01/14 - Hamden, Upper Lake Whitney -- Orchard Oriole (M singing),
Whitney Ave bridge, again.