10/9/07 - From Gina Nichol and Sunrise Birding group: Madison, Hammonasset State Park (8-11 AM) -- COMMON EIDER (female), LITTLE BLUE HERON, MARSH WREN, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, FIELD SPARROW, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW Other species recorded: Brant, American Black Duck, Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, American Kestrel, Black-bellied Plover, Killdeer, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Laughing Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Eastern Phoebe, Blue-headed Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Palm Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, American Goldfinch. The eider was at the end of the moraine trail at the mouth of the Hammonasset River. We saw it from the end of the Cedar Island trail. The sparrows were all along the hedge line right of the outhouse at the entrance to Willard Island. Gina Nichol _www.sunrisebirding.com/sightings.htm_ (http://www.sunrisebirding.com/sightings.htm) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com