Last night, the weather was set up for a strong push of migrants into CT. The NW wind and clear skies were conducive for many nocturnal migrants to head southwards.The interesting part was a band of rain that was forecast to move in from the west hitting the CT coast between 6am and 8am this morning. Several of us pondered that this would intersect any migrants flying at daybreak and down them in a fall-out. Surprisingly we were not wrong. I managed to get out at noon after the rain had passed but news from birders deom Bluff Point to Stratford reported big numbers of yellow-rumps and sparrows. The most unusual event was flagged by news from birders at bluff pt (Dave Provencher, Glenn Williams and Phil Rusch) who reported more than 10 cuckoos of both species. At the time i was speaking to Dave about how unprecedented that was when a Yellow-billed flew over my car while I was on the Q bridge in New Haven. A brief visit to East Shore park hinted at many birds being downed. Yellow-rumped, Pine, Palm and Blackpoll fed on the grass while the single Black and White and BT Green and a single magnolia broke up the monotony. The highlight was another Yellow-billed Cuckoo that surprised me in the hedge by the sewage plant followed almost instantly by another cuckoo that flew out and revealed itself to be a Black-billed! A great couple of hours birding around this small park! Over 100 cuckoo's, mostly Yellow-billed were tallied moving along the bayshore north of Cape May. An unprecedented event unfolding all down the north-east coast it seems...how many actual birds must have been involved?? Julian HoughNew Haven, CT  Sent from my LG Phoenix 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone