Note: The Fork-tailed Flycatcher continued today in Lyme. Again, I am just going to try to summarize. Thanks to all who reported! From many birders: 12/02/13 - Lyme, Hadlyme Ferry Landing, (EAST side of the river!), by Gillette Castle -- 7:30ish AM to 4:30 PM; Fork-tailed FLycatcher. "I was there at 7am and the bird finally made an appearance at 7:30ish with some decent views before flying up to Gillette Castle where it hung out for around an hour." "7:40: Teed up in tree by sign." "7:45am; 1 FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER." "Once it came back around 9:30 it provided excellent point blank views seemingly unconcerned with the dozen plus folks taking pictures and looking at it." "10:00am - 11:00am - FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER well seen and photographed in thicket near rock ledge and around parking area." "FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER showing well at 11:50." "12:53 -1:02pm. FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER showing well at a distance up & far left of hill. Hoping for a close look. Now we wait." "3:16pm FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER showing well close and distance surrounding the park, stump, trees and hillside. Great looks via binos, scope + photos. Beautiful light has been a plus." "4:30pm; 1 FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER being seen close to the parking lot. I had to wait 10 minutes for it to appear. 6 other birders with one from RI." From Jamie Meyers: 12/02/13 - East Granby, in corn field on the south side of Seymour Road -- BARNACLE GOOSE with several thousand Canadas. This location is basically at the Windsor/East Granby town line very near a roundabout in the road. At the town line Seymour Road becomes Rainbow Road. There is a massive corn field on the south side of the road extending for a good half mile or so. The geese were everywhere, but the Barnacle was with a group that could be seen directly south of a dirt road that is being used as access for logging trucks. As the goose flies this place is probably no more than 3 or 4 miles from the Day Hill Road area in Windsor, where I believe a Barnacle was recently seen. From Sam Sauleys and the Raffords via Lemmon: 12/02/13 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 8:50 AM; Snowy Owl being seen at Meigs Pt sitting on the Meigs Pt jetty. 11:50 AM; Snowy Owl still sitting on the Meigs Pt jetty in close enough for good photos. From John Flynn: 12/02/13 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 12:15 PM; The Snowy Owl just took off. From Denise Jernigan via Sara Zagorski: 12/02/13 - Stratford, Short Beach -- 12 Noon; Snowy Owl on the breakwater off the beach. From Russ Smiley: 12/02/13 - Stratford -- 12:55 PM; Besides the Snowy Owl on the breakwater, there is a second Snowy Owl across the Avco cove as seen from the Stratford Greenway. From Keith Mueller with Tom Robben: 12/02/13 - Long Island Sound, off Guilford -- around 2:00 PM; What was most likely (at extreme binocular range) a Snowy Owl perched on the eastern most boulder on Goose Rocks (west of Faulkner's Island- off the Guilford coast). We spotted the bird from at least a mile outside Faulkners and Goose Rocks perched high on the largest boulder. From Frank Mantlik: 12/02/13 - East Haven, foot of Brazos Rd (viewed from vacant lot left of 28 Caroline?) -- drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE continues 8:30-9:00, with 60 Commons. plus 4 Purple Sandpipers on rocks. From Bill Banks: 12/02/13 - Waterford, Harkness Memorial State Park -- King Eider, Common Eider, Red-neck Grebe. East Haven -- Barrow's Goldeneye (with raft of common) left at end of Brazos Rd. From Bill Batsford: 12/02/13 - Waterford, Harkness Memorial State Park -- 11:30 to 12 -- King Eider showing relatively close to shore at east side. From Carolyn Cimino: 12/02/13 - Waterford, Harkness Memorial State Park -- King Eider still there at 3:30 PM, just out from the platform. Also several Common Eiders, and a flock of 7 Snow Buntings which landed right in front of us. From Russ Smiley: 12/02/13 - Milford, Law high school pond -- Eurasian Wigeon continues in this pond at noon. From Sara Zagorski: 12/02/13 - Durham, Greenbacker Pond -- the continuing Greater white-fronted goose was present in the pond (with about 250 Canada Goose). From Paul Desjardins: 12/02/13 - Broad Brook -- afternoon at Mill Pond the continuing Greater White-fronted Goose. From Don Morgan: 12/02/13 - Lyme, Hadlyme ferry -- Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Milford, Milford Point, breakwater -- Snowy Owl, 2 Peregrine Falcons. Milford, Jonathan Law HS -- Eurasian Widgeon. Bridgeport, Seaside Park -- Snow Goose. Stratford, Long Beach -- 2 Peregrine Falcons. From Hank Golet: 12/02/13 - Old Saybrook, South Cove, from Soundview Ave with late afternoon sun behind me,low tide -- NORTHERN SHOVELER pair, Northern Pintail 2 males. From Patrick Dugan: 12/01/13 - Stamford Shippan Pt -- Al Collins and I ended up with 6 Razorbills. We had 5 ducks heading west one was smaller than the others. The smaller one was a male Surf Scoter. The other 4 where female Common Eiders. 12/02/13 - Stamford Shippan Pt -- 10 Razorbills 4 at 9:02 came in landed on the water 5 at 9:06 flew east, 1 at 9:25 flew west. 1 Iceland Gull. From Kevin Finnan: 12/01/13 - Goshen, Woodridge Lake -- Greater White-fronted Goose on Sunday. Closing Note: On CTBirds there was discussion of a possible Nelson's GUll. Which is a name given to a hybrid gull, not a species. Probably. I think it may depend on who you talk to. Gulls can be like that. If you want to know about those reports you will need to read the messages on CTBirds. I'm not going to even pretend to make anything of that.