10/15/2013
From Russ Naylor:
10/15/13 - Southbury, Southbury Training School pond -- 1 adult
Greater White-fronted Goose. Also some interesting hybrid geese
combinations.
From Carolyn Cimino with Denise Jernigan and Sara Zagorski:
10/15/13 - Waterford. Harkness Memorial State Park -- 1 male Common
Eider.
From Jalna Jaeger:
10/15/13 - Norwalk, Allen Rd -- WINTER WREN singing behind the senior
center.
From Susanne Shrader:
10/15/13 - West Hartford yard -- juvenile YELLOW-BELLIEDSAPSUCKER.
From Frank Mantlik:
10/14/13 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd -- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW with a
few Songs and White-throats feeding on lawn by culvert on left just
past RR tracks.
From Russ Smiley:
10/14/13 - Stratford, Long Beach Blvd -- 5:30 PM; Clay-colored Sparrow
relocated beside the railroad tracks near where Frank Mantlik reported
it earlier.
Vernon, Belding WMA -- in this field and the field across Bread and
Milk Road were a pair of Lincoln's sparrows. Excellent habitat there.
From Joseph Cala:
Vernon, Belding WMA -- one Lincoln's Sparrow.
From Jack Swatt:
10/14/13 - Wolcott yard -- juvenile WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW at my feeder
all day long.
From Robert Dixon:
10/13/13 - Sterling yard -- "Big Sit" 48 species; PURPLE FINCH,
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (2), BLACK VULTURE, COMMON RAVEN.
From Bill Asteriades with Andrew Dasinger, Denise Jernigan:
10/13/13 - Glastonbury, Glastonbury Meadows -- "Big Sit" 67 species; 2
AMERICAN WOODCOCK, COMMON RAVEN, 3 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES (heard
pre-dawn), 15 AMERICAN PIPIT, VESPER SPARROW, 3 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW
and 3 BOBOLINK.
From Bill Asteriades:
10/13/13 - Glastonbury, Glastonbury Meadows -- birding a different
section from the Big Sit; SORA, 2 WILSON'S SNIPE, 4 MARSH WREN,
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 3 LINCOLN'S SPARROW and 2 DICKCISSEL (male and
1st winter).
From Steve Mayo & crowd:
10/13/13 - New Haven, Lighthouse Point Park -- "Big Sit" 49 species; 4
Rusty Blackbirds.
From Jay Kaplan:
10/13/13 - South Windsor, Station 43 -- "Big Sit" 58 species;
Blue-winged Teal, Peregrine Falcon, Virginia Rail, Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker, Common Raven, Brown Thrasher.
From Julia Chapel & Neal Lewis:
10/13/13 - Bolton, Bolton Notch Pond -- 1 Female Northern Pintail.
From Paul & Douglas Carrier:
10/13/13 - West Hartland -- ent for walk in wild woods, saw a Ruffed
Grouse and were followed by a bear.