10/12 -- I should have sent this in yesterday. Just a reminder for those in southeastern CT: Harkness SP is awash in sparrows right now. Wish I had had more time to spend there yesterday. The areas where I did some birding yesterday were the Niering Natural Area Preserve (east side of park) and the greenhouse area with its adjacent dirt mounds (west side of park). large numbers of song, savannah, white-throated, and swamp sparrow 1 field sparrow 8 imm., 1 adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS 1 hermit thrush many yellow-rumped warblers 1 palm warbler many e. phoebes 4 juncos 1 e. towhee 1 red-tailed hawk on one of the osprey platforms 1 broad-winged hawk (Is that a bit unusual down here at this time of the year?) 2 red-shouldered hawks still several catbirds and mockingbirds hanging around and it was nice to see my first juncos of the year. And a final reminder that on Oct. 12 of last year I had a lark sparrow near the dirt mounds, but no luck yesterday. Carolyn Cimino Waterford