From Roy Harvey, Frank Mantlik, Bill Banks, Renee Baade, NHBC 1st Weds group: 10/02/13 - Derby, Osbornedale State Park -- 8:00 to 11:30 AM; Yellow-breasted Chat, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Common Raven, Tennessee Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Bobolink. The initial location of the chat: from the Kellog Center parking lot, as you enter the adjacent field there is a wide track running to the right.  As you follow it, with the open field to the left and overgrown tangle to the right, looking down the tangle there is a pokeberry bush along the edge well ahead of you, recognizable in part by the bright red stems.  The Chat was seen twice, both times down low in that pokeberry and seen from the side you would be approaching it from. (But see later report!) From John Marshall: 10/02/13 - Derby, Osbornedale State Park -- 5:00 PM; the Yellow-breasted Chat was briefly seen twice, skulking in the tangle about 30 feet before the Pokeberry bush. Shelton, Leavenworth Road, Nicholdale Farm -- CAPE MAY WARBLER, seen at lunch time in the evergreens near the big oak just after you enter the property. Nicholdale Farm is a Shelton Land Conservation Trust property. From Charlie Barnard: 10/02/13 - Stratford, Long Beach West -- Whimbrel about a mile beyond the end of the parking lot at Long Beach, on the marsh side between the 1st and 2nd Osprey Platforms. From Paul Desjardins: 10/02/13 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- morning; from the Newberry Road section Marsh Wren and from the Vibert Road section Lincoln"s Sparrow. From Russ Smiley: 10/02/13 - New Haven, East Shore Park -- 7:00 AM; There was a Nelson's sparrow in the tall grass in the corner. From Paul Carrier: 10/02/13 - Colebrook, Colebrook Reservoir -- 3:30 to 4:15 PM; 12 American Pipit. From Sarah Faulkner: 10/02/13 - South Windsor(?), I-91 -- 3 Rusty blackbirds, 1 m and 2 f, see in the grassy median of I91 near the Hartford airport. See? There is something good that can come of being stuck in traffic!