tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44503466354014885072024-02-06T21:00:28.159-05:00Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds)This site was meant to provide near REAL-TIME bird reporting DURING Hurricane Irene, to show the "storm-birds" blown up and into the entire Atlantic Coast (from Florida up to Maine and the Maritime Provinces), starting August 24th 2011, and ending around August 31st, about one week later, after the storm dissipated. That plan was interrupted for 102 hours on the morning of 8/28 when the hurricane made a direct hit on us and shut down our electricity, water, internet, etc.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-68902661709627868612011-09-14T00:08:00.003-04:002011-09-17T23:00:51.385-04:00Tropicbird discovered in Connecticut!This White-tailed Tropicbird was discovered exhausted on a road in northwest Connecticut during Hurricane Irene, 50 miles from the nearest salt water....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Go to Greg Hanisek's site for the full fascinating story (and thank you for the photo Greg!).... <a href="http://blogs.rep-am.com/nature/2011/09/13/irenes-biggest-present/">Talking Nature with Greg Hanisek » Irene’s Biggest Present</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">And please enter your Hurricane Irene birds into eBird</span> (and to ARCC or your local state ARC Avian Records Committee). The eBird team has identified these as the most important species they would like entered into eBird, please.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">TOP PRIORITY:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tropicbirds</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">SOTE Sooty Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BRTE Bridled Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">GBTE Gull-billed Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">SATE Sandwich Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">LHSP Leach's Storm-petrel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BSTP Band-rumped Storm-petrel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">HUGO Hudsonian Godwit</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">jaegers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">pelicans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Second priority:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BLTE [definitely elevated numbers] Black Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">RNPH Red-necked Phalarope</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">REPH Red Phalarope</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">inland shorebirds incl. Whimbrel, BB Plover etc.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">inland COTE Common Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">CATE Caspian Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ROYT Royal Tern</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-81851799137850495842011-09-11T22:58:00.011-04:002011-09-12T14:14:04.326-04:00Leach's Storm-petrels many miles inlandHere is just one example of the unusual situations created by Hurricane Irene.... a Leach's Storm-petrel fighting the wind over Bantam Lake, CT forty miles inland from the nearest salt water....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leach's Storm-Petrel on Bantam Lake, CT August 28, 2011. This photo thanks to Fran Zygmont </td></tr>
</tbody></table>Notice that this nice photograph captures so many of the field marks: the long angled wings, the slightly forked tail, the feet not projecting beyond tail, the pale bar on the upper wing reaching the leading edge of the wing, and the somewhat divided white rump patch.<br />
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Remember that (unlike Wilson's Storm-petrels) this is a very wary open ocean bird which is often hard to attract close to a boat, even 100 miles out on the ocean, and yet here it is on an inland fresh water lake!<br />
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And here is a recent map of the Leach's Storm-petrel distribution from eBird....note the paucity of reports from Connecticut, prior to August 28th.....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to Fran Zygmont for this photograph of this oceanic species far from its normal ocean travels, and for entering this field report into eBird this week (which will soon be reflected as a new little pink rectangle in west central Connecticut)!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-72965790160035879782011-09-11T13:00:00.013-04:002011-09-17T22:48:25.148-04:00the NEXT hurricane(s)===================<br />
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Thomas Robben to ctbirds.... Sep 12<br />
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Did you think we were done with hurricanes for the year???<br />
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Thanks to all storm-birders for submitting your Irene-bird-reports to BOTH eBird AND your state ARC avian records committee. Thanks for the direct email discussions with most of you CT storm-birders this week. <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If you have not done that dual data entry, please do it within the next week or so; or contact me or Marshall Iliff for assistance doing it.</span><br />
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Our "one-week" hurricane blog (intended to do "real-time" Florida-to-Newfoundland bird reporting DURING the peak of the hurricane, by monitoring all those listservs) was, ironically, knocked down by the storm for 102 hours during the the "best" days of August 28- Sept 1 ....and we have decided NOT to do a detailed catch-up reconstruction of those 102 hours (partly because most of those reports have already "rolled-off" their state bird-listservs [such as CTBirds] into archives, or some into oblivion).<br />
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Instead we are....<br />
1) assembling SUMMARIES of the Hurricane Irene birds at the hurricane blog,<br />
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2) highlighting some of the more interesting sightings, such as Fran Zygmont's INLAND Leach's Storm-Petrel photo...<br />
http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/<br />
<a href="http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/">Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds)</a><br />
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3) learning what we can from this hurricane and this experimental blog, including the best safe LOCATIONS for watching the next storms (thanks to Nick Bonomo and many others),<br />
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4) and looking toward the NEXT HURRICANE by studying this evolving hourly weather map every few days....<br />
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents<br />
<a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents">Post-Tropical Cyclone MARIA</a><br />
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Thank You and Good Birding,<br />
Tom Robben<br />
http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/<br />
<a href="http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/">Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds)</a><br />
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---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Thomas Robben <robben99@gmail.com><br />
Date: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:11 AM<br />
Subject: Fwd: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird<br />
To: JerseyBirds@princeton.edu<br />
Cc: Marshall Iliff <miliff@aol.com>, Thomas Robben <robben99@gmail.com><br />
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We have just witnessed an incredible hurricane, with historic bird consequences. We need everybody's help to capture their observations into eBird, as Marshall Iliff describes below....<br />
There is a lot to be learned from a panoramic Florida-to-Maine-&-the-Maritmes view of what this hurricane did, so please enter your field observations into eBird as soon as possible, within a week or so.<br />
(And additionally do not forget to report to your state avian records committee if your bird is that level of rarity.)<br />
There is really quite an amazing story here, so lets try to document all of it, please.<br />
Tom Robben<br />
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---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Marshall Iliff <miliff@aol.com><br />
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM<br />
Subject: Fwd: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird<br />
To: nbonomo@gmail.com, birdfreak007@yahoo.com, Steve Mirick <smirick@comcast.net>, tbj4@cornell.edu, pollypie@att.net, Thomas Robben <robben99@gmail.com>, Andy Farnsworth <af27@cornell.edu>, Bill Hubick <bill_hubick@yahoo.com>, Ned Brinkley <ensifera@aol.com>, Nathan Dias <dias@crbo.net>, spencer hardy <curlewsandpiper17@gmail.com><br />
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Would welcome cross-posts on this...we really have an opportunity to have all the storm watches in eBird if we act now...<br />
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---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Marshall Iliff <miliff@aol.com><br />
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:27 PM<br />
Subject: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird<br />
To: Massbird <massbird@theworld.com>, bostonbirds@googlegroups.com<br />
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Massbird,<br />
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With news still coming in for reports from Hurricane Irene, I have posted a tentative summary of some of the news with visualizations from eBird etc. See the story here:<br />
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http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-redux<br />
<a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-redux">Hurricane Irene redux — eBird</a><br />
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We already have a couple hundred Sooty Tern sightings in eBird but there are many more that we still need to get in the system. Only about half of the tropicbirds are in, so the Delaware, upstate New York, New Hampshire, and one of the New York City sightings still need to be entered. Many Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts finds are yet to be entered as well, and it would be great to be able to see a full picture for any species within the next week or so. So again, please encourage your friends who got out storm birding to help us compile all the sightings in one place.<br />
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We are very interested in using eBird to gain a better understanding of this storm, so we invite all birders who got out seeking storm-blown seabirds to please please PLEASE submit those sightings to eBird (whether or not you connected with anyrarities--the negative data is helpful too). We hope to be able to produce an animated summary of Sooty Tern sightings, showing the progression of the storm and where and when sooty Terns appeared. If we can get this together quick enough (it will depend on New England birders making sure all Sooty Tern sightings have been entered with correct times), then maybe the visualization will help us all make better storm birding plans for Hurricane Katia http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024712.shtml?5-daynl.<br />
<a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024712.shtml?5-daynl">Post-Tropical Cyclone KATIA</a><br />
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Thanks, and if anyone has questions about how to get their storm birding list into eBird, please get in touch with me directly.<br />
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Best,<br />
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Marshall Iliff<br />
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Marshall J. Iliff<br />
miliff AT aol.com<br />
West Roxbury, MA<br />
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eBird/AKN Project Leader<br />
www.ebird.org<br />
www.avianknowledge.net<br />
Cornell Lab of Ornithology<br />
Ithaca, NY<br />
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===================Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-62437691855350150442011-09-10T03:00:00.011-04:002011-09-13T23:22:51.037-04:00Please enter all your storm bird reports into eBirdToday is September 10th....<br />
The goal is to get all the storm bird reports into eBird as soon as possible. The purpose of our worksheet here is simply to make sure all reports get entered into eBird, for Connecticut (CT).....<br />
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Click here to view the worksheet of the main hurricane birds reported on the CTbirds listserv August 28-30....<br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnTfmk7_OoAYdC1lczE3bHRmbl9KaFB0Q3VGLURUdHc&hl=en_US#gid=0">WORKSHEET for Irene Birds for CT, for Aug 28-30</a><br />
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The data in this worksheet is currently being reviewed, adjusted, completed, etc..<br />
Note that all data in this worksheet, including email addresses, was taken from the public CTbirds listserv.<br />
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Please enter all your hurricane bird reports into eBird, and send me an email (robben99@gmail.com) so I can indicate that in the eBird status column of this worksheet. Please also let me know if this worksheet is missing anything important.<br />
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Here is a snapshot image showing what part of this worksheet looked like on 9/10, in its latest form....<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can click on this image (and then stretch your computer's window) to enlarge it.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are the most important hurricane birds to enter into eBird.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">TOP PRIORITY:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tropicbirds</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">SOTE Sooty Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BRTE Bridled Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">GBTE Gull-billed Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">SATE Sandwich Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">LHSP Leach's Storm-petrel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BSTP Band-rumped Storm-petrel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">HUGO Hudsonian Godwit</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">jaegers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">pelicans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Second priority:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BLTE [definitely elevated numbers] Black Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">RNPH Red-necked Phalarope</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">REPH Red Phalarope</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">inland shorebirds incl. Whimbrel, BB Plover etc.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">inland COTE Common Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">CATE Caspian Tern</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ROYT Royal Tern</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-2013937849434891942011-09-04T17:38:00.021-04:002011-09-12T01:41:16.779-04:00Summaries of "Irene's birds"While I am off researching the listserv archives of all the Atlantic coastal states (to see if my aggregation & reporting process can be automated), several nice summaries of probable Hurricane Irene birds have been published, including...<br />
1) the NEW YORK summary copied in this blog (<a href="http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-york-state-summary-of-hurricane.html">Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds): New York State summary of Hurricane Irene birds</a>),<br />
2) Marshall Iliff's comprehensive EAST COAST summary (<a href="http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/summary-of-hurricane-irenes-birds.html">Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds): Summary of Hurricane Irene's Birds</a>), and now a<br />
3) CONNECTICUT summary by James Purcell, using the CTbirds posts.... Thank you James!....<br />
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"Subject: Hurricane Irene birds<br />
From: eyeflight16 AT optonline.net<br />
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:47:53 +0000 (GMT)<br />
I was bored this morning so I thought I would put together a list of all the<br />
species and numbers of birds that we got from Hurricane Irene. I must say that<br />
the list is quite impressive. However, do keep in mind this list isn't entirely<br />
accurate. First of all, I only used reports from CT birds so I could be missing<br />
some birds, and I apologize to anyone if I missed your birds. Second, although<br />
I tried as hard as possible to avoid this, there could be some repeats of birds<br />
seen here. (Example: a Sooty Tern seen at Griswold Point flying west could be<br />
the same Sooty Tern seen flying west at Stratford Point), but I tried to use<br />
logic to get rid of these repeated birds. Also, I know that all of these birds<br />
may not have actually been blown in by the hurricane, such as the Lark Sparrow.<br />
Nonetheless, here are all the rarities from this past week.�<br />
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1 White Ibis<br />
89 Black Terns<br />
66 Sooty Terns<br />
1 Long-tailed Jaeger<br />
2 Band-rumped Storm-Petrels<br />
189 Red-necked Phalaropes<br />
5 Leach's Storm-Petrels<br />
11 Royal Terns<br />
8 Caspian Terns<br />
7 Wilson's Storm-Petrels<br />
3 Red Phalaropes<br />
1 Black-necked Stilt<br />
6 Hudsonian Godwits<br />
3 Brown Pelicans<br />
1 Bridled Tern<br />
4 Marbled Godwits<br />
3 Parasitic Jaegers<br />
1 Long-billed Dowitcher<br />
1 Great Shearwater<br />
1 Manx Shearwater<br />
1 American Avocet<br />
1 American White Pelican<br />
1 Gull-billed Tern<br />
1 Lark Sparrow<br />
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Wow! What a week for CT birding!�<br />
<br />
James Purcell<br />
Fairfield"<br />
=================Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-10333034204706197242011-09-02T22:56:00.007-04:002011-09-03T20:30:07.411-04:00Copying the archived hurricane bird reports from each stateSince this blog lost its primary goal to be a real-time communications tool DURING the middle of Hurricane Irene (because we lost electricity Sunday morning) a revised goal for this blog will be to assemble all the Hurricane Irene bird-list field reports together here, for convenience and to prevent any of them from being lost, across all or most of the states Irene touched.<br />
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Unless anybody has any objection, several long pages in this blog will copy the exact archived bird list posts covering the Hurricane Irene week, from about 8/26 through 9/2.<br />
The CTbirds archives are the first being experimented with, and you can easily see their work-in-progress by clicking on these links (they are simply long posts in this blog, and artificially stored under the date of 8/22)....<br />
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<a href="http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/2011/08/experimenting-with-full-text-from-ct.html">Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds): Experimenting with the full text from CT birds list from 8/22-8/28</a><br />
this long page covers 8/22 through 8/28<br />
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<a href="http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/experimenting-with-full-text-from-ct.html">Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds): Experimenting with the full text from CT birds list from 8/29</a><br />
and this long page covers 8/29 onwards<br />
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You can always return to this blog's "home page" by clicking on the name of the blog at the very top of the screen. These long archived sections are so long that they cannot all fit on one screen, so scrolling down is not enough for you to find all the long pages (actually long posts) which will be coming here. You will have to use the TableOfContents on the right side (all listed artificially within August 22) or click on OlderPosts when you see that at the bottom of your scrolling.<br />
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Note that yellow and green background colors are being used to high-light different field reports (using two colors makes it easier on the eye to distinguish two close reports). Red will also be used to flag some key species within these reports. This work has just begun, and is currently incomplete. Extraneous posts which are not related to the hurricane will probably be deleted at the end of this process, which will shorten these long pages.<br />
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The goal is simply to capture the full text of all the storm posts for convenient review by birders (and perhaps for scientists and others to possibly use in the future to study Hurricane Irene and its birding consequences). In some sense these posts are the first raw field reports, and have a value of their own, although <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">your bird reports should ALSO be input to at least two other organizations....</span><br />
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1. eBird<br />
AND<br />
2. your state avian records committee (if the bird species is that level of rarity)<br />
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Suggestions welcomed.<br />
The next step this weekend is to search for the same kinds of archives from the other Atlantic coastal states.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-9210408008195528132011-09-02T17:34:00.005-04:002011-09-02T19:18:36.281-04:00Day #10 How best to "catch-up" this blog?OK, we got electricity and water back late yesterday (minus an hour outage today). Now trying to figure out the best way to "catch-up" this blog, so that it might be useful to anybody, especially since the listserv (the bird lists) posts are "rolling-off" their sites, so now we need to look into the archives to see how much we can retrieve of the earlier reported birds. We were originally hoping to avoid this dilemma by limiting this blog to just ONE-WEEK of real-time hurricane bird reporting (ending on 8/31)....unfortunately the loss of electricity and internet service on sunday morning (8/28) stopped that idea. This leaves us with this question... is any kind of AFTER THE FACT summary worth creating here. TBD. <br />
I guess its time to look into every one of the coastal bird list listservs to confirm which have searchable archives and which do not.<br />
More later tomorrow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-84037071626092671892011-09-02T14:39:00.021-04:002011-09-02T18:50:09.882-04:00Summary of Hurricane Irene's BirdsHere is an excellent 9/1 summary of the most exciting bird reports "caused by" Hurricane Irene, written by Marshall Iliff in his excellent post on eBirds at... <br />
<a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-redux">Hurricane Irene redux — eBird</a><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many of the below birds have yet to be entered into eBird, and if your friends saw some of these birds please ask them to get them into eBird so that the maps start to fill out with the full picture of these birds' occurrence!</div><ul class="noindent" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">White-tailed Tropicbird was <strong><em>the headline bird of Irene</em></strong>. In fact, we had predicted this based on elevated numbers offshore this year, writing: "Summer 2011 has been one of the best tropicbird years ever, so Hurricane Irene could carry a significant tropicbird load". Although there are historical records of birds displaced inland as far north as Vermont, never before has a storm produced double-digit numbers of tropicbirds and never before has a live one been observed on an inland lake in the Northeast. At least seven live birds were seen during the storm on 28 August.</li>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Three adults at Cape May, NJ, 28 Aug; first Cape May County record</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One adult and one immature off Manhattan, Hudson River, New York, 28 Aug</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One adult at Quabbin Reservoir, MA, 28 Aug; first Hampshire County record</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One at Lake Onota, Pittsfield, MA, 28 Aug; first Berkshire County record (possibly a second bird seen the next day)</li>
</ol><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And since the storm, an additional several birds have been found dead or dying:</div><ol style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One found moribund (later died) in Rensselaer County in upstate New York 29 Aug or later</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One adult found at Rockaway Beach, NY</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One (presumed white-tailed, ID yet to be confirmed) at East Marion, NY</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">One adult found moribund (later died) in Claremont, NH, on 30 Aug; a first state record</li>
</ol><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This makes for an unprecedented total of 12+ White-taield Tropicbirds i nthe Northeast in conjunction with this storm!</div><ul class="noindent" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Inland Leach's Storm-Petrels were seen at Quabbin Reservoir, MA, as well as coastal birds in a number of places.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Band-rumped Storm-Petrels were displaced well northward and to the coast, but were not found inland (as they have been occasionally in the past). The most noteworthy were first from-shore records in Massachusetts (First Encounter Beach, 29 Aug, Nantucket and Tuckernuck Islands on 28 Aug) and Connecticut, and others were seen around New York City as well.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Inland Wilson's Storm-Petrels, very rare in hurricanes, were found at Lake Pontoosuc, Pittsfield, MA, on 28 Aug, and found dead in Northampton, MA, 30 Aug (specimen and photos)</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Brown Pelicans after the storm in Galilee, RI (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_skua/6096555647/in/pool-437129@N20/" style="color: #3366cc;"> photos</a>) and Tuckernuck Island, MA.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Magnificent Frigatebirds seen in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Several inland jaegers included a few Parasitics and at least a few Long-tailed Jaegers.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">A cooperative South Polar Skua was reported from a beach on Long Island, NY.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Widespread Sooty Terns inland and coastally from South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. One in <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8735058" style="color: #3366cc;">Boston</a> was the farthest north and east. Never before has the spread of Sooty Terns been so quickly and easily explored by other birders, and this all thanks to those that have already entered their reports with good notes so that they can be reviewed and accepted. Notice the spread of records on this <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=sooter1&getLocations=states&states=US-CT,US-MA,US-NJ,US-NY,US-PA&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=8&reportType=species&" style="color: #3366cc;">map of Aug 2011 Sooty Terns</a> -- you can pretty much see where the eye passed and how Sooty Terns occur out to the outer edges of the storm's wind field.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Bridled Terns, as expected, were seen in this storm, but only on the coast. We are not aware of any inland Bridled Terns, but birds on the coast or in estuarine bays and harbors were seen in North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Of those states, Bridled Tern is most unusual in Connecticut, the only one lacking pelagic waters (Bridled Tern is rare but regular in deep, warm pelagic waters north to Massachusetts). Compare the <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=briter1&getLocations=states&states=US-CT,US-MA,US-NJ,US-NY,US-PA&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=8&reportType=species&" style="color: #3366cc;">map of Bridled Tern occurrences</a> to the Sooty Tern map above, and note how much farther inland Sooties were seen. See the discussion on this topic below.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Brown Noddy -- One seen from shore around Charleston Harbor on Friday 26 August. There are very few prior records. See <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8723753" style="color: #3366cc;">Nate Dias's checklist here</a>.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Lingering southern terns in several states for several days after the storm, including <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=blkski&getLocations=states&states=US-ME,US-MA,US-NH,US-RI&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=9&reportType=species&" style="color: #3366cc;">Black Skimmers</a> in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island; <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=royter1&getLocations=states&states=US-ME,US-MA,US-NH,US-RI&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=9&reportType=species&" style="color: #3366cc;">Royal Terns</a> in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; and <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=santer1&getLocations=states&states=US-ME,US-MA,US-NH,US-RI&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=9&reportType=species&" style="color: #3366cc;">Sandwich Terns</a> in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Widespread Black Terns in record numbers in many places, such as eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire (see Steve Mirick's list below)</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">An unprecedented fallout of Hudsonian Godwits was witnessed, with 193 counted at one site in New Hampshire (see <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8734169" style="color: #3366cc;">Steve Mirick's list</a>), and other lower numbers at two inland sites in Massachusetts, as well as coastal Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Most notably, several were seen in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida, where the species is extremely rare in fall. Many other shorebirds "fell out" in the storm, likely a result of the large system 'grounding' birds in overland migration, but possibly also displacing some offshore migrants back to shore.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In addition, at least two GREAT landbirds were seen. One or both may have a storm connection, and aerial insectivores are the landbirds most likely to be transported by hurricanes:</div><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">A large swift, now believed to be Black Swift (very likely of the Caribbean population, which may represent a species distinct from western North American ones), was seen and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonxie88/6090992595/in/photostream" style="color: #3366cc;">photographed</a> at Cape May. Most agree it was not a European<em>Apus</em> swift (e.g., Common Swift), so whatever it is, it will represent a new record for the East Coast (the nearest Black Swift is from Point Pelee, ON). See <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8742057" style="color: #3366cc;">Tony Leukering's report</a>.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">A Brown-chested Martin, just about the eighth record for North America, was seen at Cape Charles, VA. See <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8732588" style="color: #3366cc;">Ned Brinkley's report</a>.</li>
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Here are some great eBird checklists from the storm:</div><ul style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">26 August, Charleston Harbor, <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8723753" style="color: #3366cc;">Nate Dias</a> [Brown Noddy]</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">28 August, Cape May Point, Tony Leukering et al.'s hourly checklists include <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8742047" style="color: #3366cc;">one</a>and then <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8742052" style="color: #3366cc;">two</a> White-tailed Tropicbirds (photos), possible <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8742057" style="color: #3366cc;">Black Swift</a> (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonxie88/6090992595/in/photostream" style="color: #3366cc;">photos</a>),<a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8742057" style="color: #3366cc;">Black-capped Petrel</a>, etc.]. See the full account with photos <a class="external-link" href="http://cmboviewfromthecape.blogspot.com/" style="color: #3366cc;">here</a>.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">28 August, Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts, Marshall Iliff et al. See<a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8749439" style="color: #3366cc;">total list</a> or the <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8749443" style="color: #3366cc;">epic 16:00-17:00 hourly list</a> [White-tailed Tropicbird, Sooty Tern (<a class="external-link" href="http://quabbinbirdingandbeyond.blogspot.com/" style="color: #3366cc;">photos</a>), Leach's Storm-Petrel, Parasitic Jaeger etc.]</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">28 August, New York. White-tailed Tropicbird (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasurfbird/6089954997/in/photostream/" style="color: #3366cc;"> photos</a>) etc. off Manhattan. See<a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8746311" style="color: #3366cc;">Sam Stuart's list</a>.</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">28 August, New Hampshire. No southern rarities, but a fallout of Hudsonian Godwits and record-high Black Tern counts, along with some displaced seabirds. See <a class="external-link" href="http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S8734169" style="color: #3366cc;">Steve Mirick's list</a>.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There is much more to be learned about the storm and its birds as people continue to organize their checklists and enter them in eBird. If you haven't put yours in yet, please do!</div><div><br />
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Please report all your storm bird sightings BOTH into eBird AND to your local state birding authority (typically your state avian records committee). It is very important to submit your reports for this storm. Thank you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-65515142692053381772011-09-01T17:11:00.002-04:002011-09-07T01:47:05.985-04:00Day #9 One-hundred hours with no electricity, water, etcIt is 5pm Thursday September 1st and still no electricity, water, etc. in our area of central Connecticut. It has been over 102 hours since we lost electricity, water, etc. [shortly after this post electricity was restored]<br />
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This blog will be catching-up after electricity is restored, but meanwhile enjoy the excellent summaries emerging such as Marshall Iliff's summary on eBird today....<br />
<a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-redux">Hurricane Irene redux — eBird</a><br />
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And PLEASE follow Marshall's request for all Hurricane Irene bird reports to be entered in eBird. This will allow outstanding analyses, such as these maps of Sooty and Bridled Terns seen during this multi-day storm....<br />
<a href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=sooter1&getLocations=states&states=US-CT,US-MA,US-NJ,US-NY,US-PA&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=8&reportType=species&">Explore Data</a> for Sooty Tern map<br />
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<a href="http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?cmd=decisionPage&speciesCodes=briter1&getLocations=states&states=US-CT,US-MA,US-NJ,US-NY,US-PA&bYear=2011&eYear=2011&bMonth=8&eMonth=8&reportType=species&">Explore Data</a> for Bridled Tern mapUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-61437287252497567572011-08-31T18:12:00.004-04:002011-09-02T18:56:35.841-04:00Day #8 and still waiting for electricity, water, etcIt is 6pm Wednesday 8/31 and unfortunately (thanks to Irene) still no electricity, water, etc, but this blog will be catching-up as soon as we have electricity here in central CT. Also working with the eBird team on the best way to collect all possible reports of hurricane-related-birds. More tomorrow, hopefully.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-29458217169048705552011-08-30T15:20:00.000-04:002011-08-30T17:19:12.896-04:00Lessons Learned from this hurricane/birding experienceIf anybody would like to start a discussion of what we have LEARNED as birders/naturalists from this Hurricane Irene experience we will be glad to host that discussion here, starting with anybody's proposed list of lessons-learned.<br />
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I will start with the #1 lesson I learned (and it goes beyond birding)... to get an electricity generator in my house, so we are really prepared for the next storm which shuts down our electricity for a day or maybe a week!<br />
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The next lesson might be that the "best" birds are reported during (and the hours right after) the teeth of the storm! Or maybe that is too much of a generalization.<br />
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Feel free to email me at robben99@gmail.com or leave a comment "below" this post (you probably have to first click on this post so it is the only post visible to you). This discussion will start slowly, since I will not have much internet access this week, and I cant really get into the discussion until I do have electricity restored.<br />
Thanks, TomUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-71169939030479515892011-08-30T14:10:00.002-04:002011-09-18T11:44:54.169-04:00Possible uses of blogs like this one<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A REAL-TIME TOOL:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The primary objective of this blog was to be used DURING Hurricane Irene, as a real-time communication tool, FOR JUST ONE WEEK ending on 8/31, to be useful to east coast birders to be more aware of the birding effects/opportunities/locations of Hurricane Irene, DURING Irene's approach and its immediate aftermath. Unfortunately we had a power outage which started at 11am Sunday and continues now 5pm Tuesday, including the crucial hours of Irene's main landfall, so that objective was compromised. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
A HISTORICAL TOOL:<br />
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Now that the hurricane is gone, and its effects are evaporating, we will try to use this blog to do a brief historical summary of Irene, but already the storm reports on the various state listservs are "rolling-off", and some of them will be hard to recover. We have just started to take daily snapshots of the main listservs, hoping to use them to assemble a comprehensive picture of all the hurricane birds of the past week.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
To see the "rolling-off" problem you can click on some of the older links in this blog, and you will NOT be taken back to those particular reports (even though those links have the exact listserv ID numbers for those reports), but rather to the latest subset of reports on that listserv (because the older ones rolled-off, unfortunately). So these listservs are most useful during their current week (before the reports roll-off), but not as useful after the roll-off of the latest batch of reports (some listservs do archive but some dont). Some of this history is not archived. More thoughts on this next week, but meanwhile we will try to assemble a summary of "Irene's Birds" (assuming electricity returns soon).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-52397881382783106102011-08-29T14:01:00.008-04:002011-09-14T00:32:28.824-04:00Days #5 and #6 this blog down during temporary outageThis blog suffered from an Irene-caused electricity stoppage starting at 11am Sunday August 28th and not restored yet 2pm Monday August 29th.... this post is being made from a public building with internet access. Our area suffered a loss of electricity, water, cellular telephone voice access, cellular data access AND landline phone access. Our house was very quiet indeed.<br />
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This blog will resume when electricity is restored to our area. We are one of 700,000 households in CT which still do not have electricity, for more than 24hours, and with no projected time of restoration. We heard that this is the worst/biggest electricity outage in the history of Connecticut.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This blog will catch-up on (and include) all hurricane birds reported</span></b> on the listservs in any state along the East Coast, and beyond, plus those reports which have been emailed to me directly at robben99@gmail.com (thank you for those additional direct email reports to me, much appreciated). <br />
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This catch-up will not happen today, although a small start may be made. Look for this blog to be caught-up within a few days, as/when electricity is restored in Connecticut. When done, within a couple of days after we get electricity, this blog will contain a listing of every hurricane-bird report we could find.<br />
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Hopefully this blog and its aggregation of report summaries and links will be useful for anybody who wants to follow-up and do a more thorough/scientific analysis of the bird changes/patterns associated with this hurricane.<br />
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Sincere apologies for this temporary outage, especially since it occurred during the most interesting hours right before, during and after Irene's hard landfall in NY and CT!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-6061004531888584582011-08-28T11:00:00.003-04:002011-09-12T01:46:43.501-04:00102 HOURS BLACKOUT BEGAN HERE<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">102 hour blackout of electricity, water, and internet began around 11am Sunday August 28 during the middle of Hurricane Irene smashing into NY and CT</span>. This blog was crippled for 102 hours from Sunday onwards, and failed to deliver the ONE-WEEK of REAL-TIME reporting planned for. Truly very sorry. [this post was planted retro-actively back to this date and time].<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">NOTE that most of the links below are "broken" now and point to nothing useful!!! </span> Because they have "rolled-off" their listserv's landing-pages and into their archives (those that have archives). This is a main reason this blog was designed as a ONE-WEEK blog, whose primary purpose was real-time communication during the hurricane, not after it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-9707606567427892452011-08-28T09:23:00.026-04:002011-09-11T22:35:14.300-04:00Day #5 The eye of Irene is just south of New York CityIt is 9:15am and the eye of hurricane Irene is just a few miles south of New York City....<br />
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Scroll down through the items below, and click on the colored text links on the left side of an item, to jump to that item......<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VTBD.html#1314539976">Vermont Birds</a> ... discussion about possible hurricane birds in Vermont, by Bryan Pfeiffer<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VTBD.html#1314541017">Vermont Birds</a> ... mention of two useful sites for birding Irene, thanks to Bryan Pfeiffer!<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VTBD.html#1314544028">Vermont Birds</a> ... a very pleasant sense of humor, thanks to Paula Gills.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1314522007">The Massachusetts Birding List</a> ... two good posts by Marshall Iliff about where to look in Massachussetts.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314541912">Connecticut Birds</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERN</span> at Fairfield Beach CT, from James Purcell.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314539904">Connecticut Birds</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL</span> by Nick Bonomo and Julian Hough. and 50 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">RED-NECKED PHALAROPES</span> by Frank Mantlik.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314532182">Connecticut Birds</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERN</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">LT JAEGER </span>in CT, Nick Bonomo<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NNYB.html#1314538632">Northern New York Birds</a> ... a reminder for local birders to be alert for hurricane birds, from Dana Rohleder.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314544158">The New York Birding List</a> ... Three feet of water covering Dune Road, Hampton Bays, Suffolk, NY, from Robert Adamo.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314540626">The New York Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERN</span> at Gilgo Beach LI, NY from Andrew Baksh, Pat Lindsay and Shai Mitra<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314536107">The New York Birding List</a> ... Central Park in New York City, by Peter Post.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314536419">The New York Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">4 BRIDLED TERNS and 2 SOOTY TERNS</span> in East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY, by Angus Wilson<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314538490">New Jersey Birding</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD and 2 SOOTY TERNS</span> near Cape May, Michael O'Brien, David La Puma, et al.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314527988">New Jersey Birding</a> ... helping other people during this storm, by Harvey Tomlinson.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/PENN.html#1314543116">The Pennsylvania Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2 SOOTY TERNS</span> from PA, by Drew Weber<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/PENN.html#1314536939">The Pennsylvania Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">(LT?) JAEGER</span> from Matt Sabatine, Drew Weber and Devich Farbotnik.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/DEBD.html#1314539598">Delaware Birds</a> ... 6 tern species but action has slowed, from Jeffrey Gordon.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/DEBD.html#1314535668">Delaware Birds</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERN, STORM PETREL</span>, Black Terns, from Jeffrey Gordon.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314540889">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERN</span> from Bill Hubick, Lutmerding, Feild, and King.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314540490">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERN</span> from Kevin Graff.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314538105">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">TROPICAL TERN (SPP) and LONG-TAILED JAEGER</span>, from Bill Hubick.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314535795">Virginia Birding</a> ... a fond remembrance of Roger Tory Peterson, from Harry Glasgow.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314539208">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">RED-NECKED PHALAROPE</span>, from Chris Helms<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314497726">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">RED-NECKED PHALAROPE</span>, from Ali Iyoob<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BRAN.html#1314504911">Birdbrains</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">RED-NECKED PHALAROPE</span>, from Roberto TorresUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-32835098697783461412011-08-28T00:13:00.007-04:002011-08-28T01:38:28.411-04:00Day #5 Hurricane Irene scraping along the coast of DelMarVa and NewJerseyHurricane Irene has been grazing along the coast line since the Carolinas, but now it seems to be headed straight for its main landfall in NY between New York City and central Long Island NY. Therefore we are going to shift to a more detailed map for Irene's last hours over the ocean. We will use the WunderMap from WUnderground.com, and a sample of that a few minutes after midnight on Sunday August 28th is shown here.... you can click on any of the images to enlarge the maps....<br />
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</tbody></table>This map is from WunderMap, and it is recommended that you click on this link to see the latest version... <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=37.3&lon=-75.4&zoom=6&type=hyb&rad=0&wxsn=0&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&mm=0&hur=1&hur.wr=0&hur.cod=1&hur.fx=1&hur.obs=1&fire=0&ft=0&sl=0">WunderMap Interactive Radar & Weather Stations : Weather Underground</a><br />
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Here is the WunderMap at 12:30am Sunday morning, showing most computer models' trajectories projecting the eye of the hurricane to hit New York City, perhaps around noon today/Sunday....<br />
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..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-59200859206647456412011-08-27T21:21:00.007-04:002011-08-28T00:42:07.356-04:00Summary at end of Day #4 Saturday night 8/27It is 9pm August 27th and Hurricane Irene is east of the Virginia coast. Many observers have found Black Terns and other good coastal birds in the last two days. Good birders in Florida, the Carolinas and Virginia in the last two days have also reported some of the classic "hurricane birds"of Sooty Tern, Bridled Tern, Brown Noddy and Frigatebird, but the storm was too far East for it to give Georgia any similar species.<br />
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The next two days will be very interesting to see if any typical "hurricane birds" are reported from the next states to be touched by Irene, as it pushes up the coast line toward New York City and Long Island, which will apparently take a direct hit. Irene will then push into New England, probably hitting the Connecticut coast strongly. Be careful.<br />
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If electricity continues in CT this blog will continue throughout Sunday 8/28 and Monday also, monitoring about twenty listservs on the East Coast and Canada, and phone calls from NorthEast birding friends. If this site goes inactive it would mean that we lost electricity and the ability to connect to the internet.<br />
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As Nick Bonomo said here a few minutes ago... <a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314496136">Connecticut Birds</a><br />
it may be possible to do some SAFE post-storm birding Sunday afternoon, TBD.<br />
If you do see anything outstanding on Sunday or Monday please post immediately on CTbirds or your local state bird list, and call other birders.<br />
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Please remember to put safety first, ahead of everything else.<br />
Take care and Good night!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-51389936324623234422011-08-27T00:18:00.047-04:002011-08-28T10:57:20.630-04:00Day #4 Hurricane Irene east of the Carolinas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">WHICH WILL BE THE NEXT STATES TO REPORT "HURRICANE BIRDS"?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">LOOKS LIKE </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERNS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> IN FLORIDA and THE CAROLINAS ARE THE FIRST OF THE DAY! See several other hurricane birds in the items below in RED.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This update is as of 9 PM Saturday 8/27</span><br />
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This map shows the cumulative wind history of Hurricane Irene, as of mid-day 8/27...<br />
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Here is the projected storm track as of 9 pm Saturday....8/27... you can click on it to enlarge...<br />
the storm path has adjusted a bit west and the eye of the storm is apparently aiming directly at Manhattan in NYC!<br />
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Here is the track as of 5pm...<br />
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Here is the projected storm track as of 2pm...<br />
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Here is the trajectory as of 8am....<br />
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds/browse_thread/thread/8ee8a94d7ea9e044#">Hurricane Irene Birds - Maine birds | Google Groups</a> ... comments on this blog and discussion about where to do hurricane birding, thanks to Peter Vickery.<br />
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds/browse_thread/thread/c9341e3f17acc688#">some hurricane predictions and suggestions - Maine birds | Google Groups</a> ... from Derek Lovitch, a new and very interesting blog, featuring Hurricane Irene currently....<br />
<a href="http://maineoutdoorjournal.mainetoday.com/blogentry.html?id=64771">Maine Outdoor Journal | Field Notes: Introducing the Gulf of Maine Bird Watch!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/RIBD.html#1314472164">Rhode Island Birds</a> ... squeezing in some pre-hurricane birding, before the beach areas are closed, by Jan St. Jean.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314496136">Connecticut Birds</a> ... it may be possible to see rare species late Sunday, TBD, from Nick Bonomo.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314474536">Connecticut Birds</a> ... our own 3pm update about this Hurricane Irene blog. Another update forthcoming around 9pm tonight.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314470221">The New York Birding List</a> ... Thanks to Mike Cooper for a list of three webcams which are giving almost real-time snapshot still ocean views...of coastal places which will be difficult to get to for a few days...<br />
Gilgo- stills- refreshed evry second or so....<br />
<a href="http://www.bungersurf.com/Bunger_Surfcam/">Gilgo Surf Cam - Bunger Surf Shop Surfcam of Gilgo Beach Long Island N.Y.</a><br />
Shinnecock still picture updated every 15 minutes...<br />
<a href="http://www.lishore.org/shinnecock/webcam.htm">Webcam at Shinnecock Inlet, Long Island, New York USA</a><br />
Montauk- watch about 20 seconds, then have to reload for an ad.... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/montauk-northeast_4268/">Montauk Surf Report and HD Surf Cam | SURFLINE.COM</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/HMBD.html#1314494214">Hudson Mohawk Birds</a> ... history of storm birds around Albana, by Will Raup<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/HMBD.html#1314489235">Hudson Mohawk Birds</a> ... reflections on hurricane birds, by Chad Witko<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314476923">The New York Birding List</a> ... Suffolk County parks closed on Long Island, from Mike Cooper.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314478811">The New York Birding List</a> .. more discussion about where to go, from Jacob Drucker.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314472242">The New York Birding List</a> ... where to go to see hurricane birds?? by Peter Post, Mike Cooper, Bob Lewis.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314467625">The New York Birding List</a> ... Gateway closed question, from Steve Walter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314462057">The New York Birding List</a> ... more beach closures on eastern Long Island, by Eileen Schwinn, Don Riepe, Mike Cooper, David Klauber, etc.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314460022">The New York Birding List</a> ... Several posts here indicate that most of the ocean beaches around western Long Island and NYC are being closed and asking birders and other visitors to leave.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314455646">The New York Birding List</a> ... looks like most of the Long Island beaches will be closed and inaccessible, as per Angus Wilson.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314458609">The New York Birding List</a> ... this hurricane blog gets some advertising on the New York birding list, thank to Peter Post.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314491606">New Jersey Birding</a> ... three consecutive good posts about hurricane birding in NJ and especially around Cape May, by David La Puma, Steve Glynn, and Fred Virrazzi. Good luck to all of you Sunday & Monday, and hopefully Cape May has some good birds.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314486715">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... no real hurricane birds in a sea-watch this afternoon, by Jim Stasz. This is the smart way to do a hurricane seawatch.... from inside a safe restaurant overlooking the ocean! (-:<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314480263">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... The MD bird listserv is active late today with questions and ideas about where to look for hurricane birds.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314472004">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... Royal, Caspian and Black Terns, but probably not truly hurricane birds, from Jeff Shenot.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314460155">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... 11 Black Terns at 11:30am may be hurricane birds, by Jim Stasz.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314424019">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... Maryland discussion of possible hurricane bird species, by Phil Davis.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/WVBD.html#1314456591">The West Virginia Birding List</a> ... brief note on possible storm birds, by Matt Orsie.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314483523">Virginia Birding</a> ... two <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERNS</span> around 4-5pm, thanks to Mike Stinson, David Spears, and Evan Spears.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314488805">Virginia Birding</a> ... two <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERNS</span> in a roost with Black, Caspian, Royal, Common, Forster's, and Sandwich Terns, thanks to Ned Brinkley.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314447938">Virginia Birding</a> ... a hurricane "storm roost" forming in Virginia, by Ned Brinkley.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314473018">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... 3 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERNS</span>, thanks to Ali Iyoob.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314471424">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERNS</span> from Andrew Thornton and Kent Fiala. Same birds located later by Steve Shultz... <a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314487264">The Carolinas Birding List</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314495334">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... thankful for the SOOTY TERN photos, by Harry Sell.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314470252">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... 2 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERNS</span> from Derb Carter.<br />
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<a href="http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=281848">The Birding Lists Digest</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERN</span> in the Carolinas, by Derb Carter, thanks to a comment sent in by Jess.<br />
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<a href="http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=281859">The Birding Lists Digest</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERN</span> at Mason Inlet, NC by Derb Carter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314456943">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... more on the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERN</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERN</span> from Derb Carter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314452422">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... southern parts of Carolinas already showing some post-hurricane weather, discussing hummers, not hurricane seabirds.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/GABO.html">Georgia Birding</a> ... nothing about hurricane birds from Georgia yet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/FLAB.html#1314451846">Florida Birds</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BRIDLED TERN</span> in Florida around 9am, by Linda Most.<br />
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GOOD NEWS ABOUT THAT WHIMBREL.....<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/FLAB.html#1314462449">Florida Birds</a> ... the hurricane Whimbrel appears to be alive and well today 8/27, as per email from Patrick Leary. See the map of the bird's position today 8/27...<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=84206&zoom=1%E3%80%88=">seaturtle.org - Tracking - Chinquapin</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BRAN.html#1314370295">Birdbrains</a> ... Florida birders looking for hurricane birds late yesterday, but with little success, by Gary Davis.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-47375935694042943082011-08-26T22:25:00.010-04:002011-08-28T01:49:03.625-04:00Brown Noddy (aka Common Noddy)One of our favorite "hurricane birds".<br />
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Noddy">Brown Noddy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seen in South Carolina on August 26, 2011</div><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-49783378974894919412011-08-26T01:36:00.038-04:002011-08-27T13:28:04.076-04:00Day #3 Hurricane Irene east of north Florida and Georgia<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">WILL ANY "HURRICANE BIRDS" BE REPORTED TODAY IN ANY STATE? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">YESSSS! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOUTH CAROLINA IS #1 WITH BROWN NODDY, SOOTY TERN AND TWO MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRDS. OR MAYBE FLORIDA WAS FIRST WITH ITS 40 SOOTY TERNS?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">See the reported items below the maps.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">THE TIME IS 11:00PM FRIDAY 8/26</span><br />
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Here is the projected storm track as of 8pm tonight Friday August 26th...<br />
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And here is the storm track as of 11am Friday morning...<br />
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<a href="https://groups.google.com/group/nf.birds/topics?hl=en">Discussions - nf.birds | Google Groups</a> ... nothing about the hurricane yet in Newfoundland.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/PEIB.html">Prince Edward Island Birders</a> ... nothing about the hurricane yet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NTNS.html">Nova Scotia</a> ... nothing yet about the hurricane.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/ORNQ.html#1314440882">The Ornitho-QC List</a> ... the hurricane Whimbrel, in French.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/ONTB.html">Ontario Birding</a> ... no hurricane posts yet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NTNB.html">New Brunswick</a> ... nothing about the hurricane yet<br />
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds/topics">Discussions - Maine birds | Google Groups</a> ... interesting birds in Maine, but nothing about the hurricane yet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VTBD.html#1314378675">Vermont Birds</a> ... comments about the Whimbreal that flew into Hurricane Irene<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NHBD.html#1314404035">New Hampshire Birds</a> ... suggestions to search CT river and inland waters for hurricane birds, by Steve Mirick<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1314392740">The Massachusetts Birding List</a> ... a good post by Marshall Iliff, including reference to his excellent eBird article... <a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-en-route">Hurricane Irene en route — eBird</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1314392756">The Massachusetts Birding List</a> ... additional refuges closed in MA<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1314367858">The Massachusetts Birding List</a> ... Monomoy NWR closing for Irene, by Barbara Volkle. Plus Peter Trull's report of an adult Sabine's Gull on 8/25 (but not due to the hurricane).<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314359048">Connecticut Birds</a> ... seabirds and coast-birds in hurricanes, by Dennis Varza.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314355544">Connecticut Birds</a> ... thoughts about birding on monday, by John Babington.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314417502">The New York Birding List</a> ... John Bull's fascinating bird history of hurricanes around New York City, from 1878 to 1960 hurricanes, from Mike Cooper.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314391083">The New York Birding List</a> ... a good article about hurricane birding, referenced by Doug Gochfeld... <br />
<a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-en-route">Hurricane Irene en route — eBird</a> ... an excellent article!<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html#1314375943">The New York Birding List</a> ... some interesting hurricane history from a well-known "old-time hurricane birder", Peter Post, regarding some of the difficulties of birding after hurricanes.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314392845">New Jersey Birding</a> ... The calm before the storm in NJ<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/DEBD.html#1314367106">Delaware Birds</a> ... Bombay Hook NWR closing because of Hurricane Irene.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314388132">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... hoping for tropical terns in Maryland.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html">Virginia Birding</a> ... no hurricane birds from Virginia yet.<br />
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THE CAROLINAS ARE GETTING "HURRICANE BIRDS"......click on the colored links on left...<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314403420">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BROWN NODDY</span> in South Carolina. Thanks also to Andrew Dasinger for collaborating on this stuff.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314401564">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2 MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRDS, SOOTY TERN</span> IN SC.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314400588">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... wild weather in North Carolina at 7pm<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/GABO.html#1314408501">Georgia Birding</a> ... search for hurricane birds around Jekyll Island GA not successful.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BRAN.html#1314370295">Birdbrains</a> ... Two posts from Florida today, where searches for "hurricane birds" were NOT successful, by Gary Davis and by Michael Brothers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/FLAB.html#1314355140">Florida Birds</a> ... One Long-tailed Jaeger but not other pelagics or hurricane birds, by Michael Brothers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/FLAB.html#1314397301">Florida Birds</a> ... 40 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOOTY TERNS</span>, around 8am, by Bob Richter. I overlooked this Florida report until Matt Malin brought it to my attention tonight....thank you Matt. This might be the first report of any Irene "hurricane birds".<br />
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SEVERAL MORE ARTICLES ABOUT THE WHIMBREL FLYING THROUGH IRENE...<br />
<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/08/bird-survive-rough-ride-through-hurricane-irene/1">Bird survives rough ride through Hurricane Irene</a><br />
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5834775/did-this-bird-survive-a-flight-through-hurricane-irene">Did This Bird Survive a Flight Through Hurricane Irene?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/whimbrel-successfully-negotiates-most-severe-part-of-hurricane-irene123.php">William & Mary - Whimbrel successfully negotiates most severe part of Hurricane Irene</a><br />
And here is another Whimbrel record flight in 2008...<br />
<a href="http://10000birds.com/winnie-the-whimbrel.htm">Winnie the Whimbrel</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-83054044039718840262011-08-25T10:49:00.038-04:002011-08-28T11:03:46.750-04:00Day #2 Irene is in the Bahamas east of south Florida<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">UPDATE: NO REPORTS OF ANY "HURRICANE BIRDS" YET AS OF 8/25 11PM</span><br />
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Thursday's 11pm projected storm track map, with Irene still headed for New York City...<br />
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Today's 5pm projected storm track map shows a bit more drift back to the west, suggesting that Irene might scrape right along the coast from Virginia up into New York City and then into New England...<br />
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Today's 8am projected storm track map shows a slight adjustment back to the west since yesterday, pointing it toward western Long Island NY and New England...<br />
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It is 11pm now and bird lists today started to discuss Hurricane Irene, but there were no reports of "hurricane birds" (birds probably impacted/transported by the hurricane, especially the less common species and those displaced from other locations). All coastal bird lists will be reviewed again tomorrow, from Florida up through the Maritime Provinces. Meanwhile click on the blue/purple-colored links below to jump to Thursday's posts, and then you can use your browser's "back button" to return to this site....<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NTNS.html#1314316616">Nova Scotia</a> ... the first Nova Scotia post about the oncoming hurricane Irene.<br />
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds/browse_thread/thread/85181f15294684c8#">Hurricane Irene - birds and more - Maine birds | Google Groups</a> ... Maine birders also expressing safety concerns about Hurricane Irene.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1314305486">The Massachusetts Birding List</a> ... echoing that Whimbrel radar tracking story from VA and thinking about Sooty Terns.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314327285">Connecticut Birds</a> ... a long article: suggestions on birding Hurricane Irene, by Nick Bonomo<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314324995">Connecticut Birds</a> ... Some hurricane birding tips from Frank Mantlik and Ned Brinkley.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314291776">Connecticut Birds</a> ... some thoughts about hurricanes and birds, by Paul Carrier.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html#1314295952">The Cayuga Birding List</a> ... a reminder to be alert for possible hurricane birds, from Chris Tessaglia-Hymes.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314323408">New Jersey Birding</a> ... "Hurricane Irene and birding potential", plus the several posts directly below this one on the NJBirds list.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314322869">New Jersey Birding</a> ... will Kirtland's Warbler be impacted by Hurricane Irene?<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314322474">New Jersey Birding</a> ... "Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge closed until further notice"<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314304856">New Jersey Birding</a> ... where should a birder be on Monday morning? by Mike Gochfeld<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1314301282">New Jersey Birding</a> ... the New Jersey shore is at risk of a deadly storm surge<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/DEBD.html#1314301803">Delaware Birds</a> ... concerns about Irene threatening Delaware.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314301176">MDOsprey Birding List</a> ... remembering a hurricane that hit Assateague<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314302239">Virginia Birding</a> ... satellite transmitter tracking a Whimbrel as it flies through Irene today! Amazing!!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314300626">Virginia Birding</a> ... more deep concern about this hurricane!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314290261">Virginia Birding</a> ... could this be the first sign of Irene approaching Virginia? Plus a post about damages and safety issues.<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1314290937">The Carolinas Birding List</a> ... Serious concern in the Carolinas<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/GABO.html#1314299201">Georgia Birding</a> ... a Georgia discussion about possible birds from Hurricane Irene.<br />
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<br />
Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges will be closed because of the hurricane...<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">"From: Janis Nepshinsky/R5/FWS/DOI</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Date: 08/25/2011 10:53AM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Subject: Press Release for Closure of Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges due to projected path of Hurricane Irene</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Please see attached and copied press release.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Please call if you have any questions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Thanks, Janis</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">cell 787.6298</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">News Release</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Block Island NWR John H. Chafee NWR at Pettaquamscutt Cove Ninigret NWR Sachuest Point NWR Trustom Pond NWR</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">50 Bend Road, Charlestown, RI 02813 401/364-9124 Fax: 401/364-0170</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">For Immediate Release August 25, 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">For Further Information Contact:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Janis Nepshinsky, Visitor Services Manager 401 364-9124 or</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Charlie Vandemoer, Refuge Manager: 401.364.9124x11</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges Closed Due To Hurricane Irene’s Project Path</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">With Hurricane Irene projected to hit the northeast coast this weekend, the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) will be closed beginning Saturday, August 27, 2011 until further notice. Forecasters predict that the Rhode Island coast will experience surging tides, high sustained winds of 75 miles per hours and severe flooding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">We regret this emergency closure and we will re-open as soon as conditions are safe, says Janis Nepshinsky, Visitor Services Manager.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges consists of Block Island NWR, John H. Chafee Refuge NWR in Narragansett/South Kingstown, Ninigret NWR in Charlestown, Sachuest Point NWR in Middletown, and Trustom Pond NWR in South Kingstown. Please visit www.fws.gov/ninigret/complex.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">For information on when the refuges will be reopened, please call 364.9124, extension 48 or visit Facebook, keyword Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">*********</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Janis Nepshinsky</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Visitor Services Manager</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">50 Bend Road, Charlestown, RI 02813</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">401.364.9124 extension 28, Fax: 401.364.0170</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Website: http://www.fws.gov/ninigret/complex/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Facebook: keyword: Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">"</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-36484204952417430222011-08-24T20:13:00.028-04:002011-08-26T01:59:02.729-04:00Day #1 -- Introduction<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; line-height: 24px;">UPDATE: NO REPORTS OF ANY "HURRICANE BIRDS" YET AS OF 8/24 9PM</span></span><br />
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This site will provide daily links to internet nature reports related to Hurricane Irene 2011. We know that hurricanes are very dangerous, damaging and costly. This site is NOT encouraging anybody to go out and endanger themselves to see birds or the storm itself. Even after the storm there can be dangers, such as electric wires on the wet ground. This site, however, will focus mostly on bird-related changes caused by this storm, including southern and tropical birds which may be blown north by the winds. We will monitor all the daily posts on the twenty East Coast bird lists from Florida up to Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. It will be interesting to see how this storm is reflected on these twenty birding lists.<br />
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Here is a snapshot of the estimated storm track as of 8pm August 24, 2011.....slightly to the east of the projected track last night....<br />
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There will be plenty of hurricane-related posts on the East Coast bird lists over the next 7 days, and here are the first several of them....click on the blue-colored links to jump to those posts, and then you can use your browser's "back button" to return to this site...<br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NTNB.html#1314203402">New Brunswick</a> ... the first hurricane related post from New Brunswick, Canada<br />
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No hurricane posts from Maine yet.<br />
<br />
No hurricane posts from Vermont yet.<br />
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No hurricane posts from New Hampshire yet.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1314223670">The Massachusetts Birding List</a> Hurricane Irene could be very damaging<br />
<br />
No hurricane posts from Rhode Island yet.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CTBD.html#1314161555">Connecticut Birds</a> Hurricane Irene appears to be aiming at us<br />
<br />
No hurricane posts from New York yet.<br />
<br />
No hurricane posts from New Jersey yet.<br />
<br />
No hurricane posts from Delaware yet.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MDOS.html#1314230975">MDOsprey Birding List</a> Starting to think about the hurricane hitting Maryland<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/VABD.html#1314214665">Virginia Birding</a> First post about the hurricane from Virginia<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html">The Carolinas Birding List</a> No hurricane posts from the Carolinas yet.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/GABO.html#1314030264">Georgia Birding</a> Georgia is starting to think about the hurricane, as per this posting....<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">"Subject: Hurricane Irene Alert - </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Possible Storm-Blown Pelagic Birds - Maybe Friday through Sunday or so!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">From: Mark McShane</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:20:01 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Hi All,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Hurricane Irene bears watching and is slated to come up the Georgia coast</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Friday and Saturday. Depending on the actual track of the storm we may get</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">some pelagic species storm-blown onto the Georgia coast and even inland</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Friday-Sunday, or even later, as the birds collect themselves and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">hopefully head back out to sea! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Also, here's a link to Lydia Thompson's interesting report of 8/22/2008</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">concerning storm-blown pelagic species on the Georgia coast then:</span><br />
<a href="http://coastalgeorgiabirding-lydia.blogspot.com/2008/08/hanging-on-by-toenails.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Coastal Georgia Birding: Hanging on by toenails</span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">It's possible that some Georgia inland lakes may end up attracting and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">holding storm-tossed pelagic species from this storm for a short while!"</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BRAN.html#1314043329">Birdbrains</a> ... some first hurricane thoughts from Florida<br />
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MORE TOMORROW!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-73449666496173441902011-08-22T21:22:00.062-04:002011-09-02T22:30:13.409-04:00Experimenting with the full text from CT birds list from 8/22-8/28EXPERIMENTING WITH THE FULL TEXT FROM AUG 22-28, 2011 FROM CTBIRDS<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Yellow or Green indicated hurricane-related posts....</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Red may be used to high-light some species....</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This long post is not completed.....work in progress....</div><br />
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From mswanhall at earthlink.net Mon Aug 22 07:10:36 2011<br />
From: mswanhall at earthlink.net (Marty Swanhall)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:10:36 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cape Cod Brown Booby<br />
Message-ID: <6291F905ECBB4620962214AF1380A1D2@SwanhallPC><br />
<br />
>From Greg Hirth and [MASSBIRD]...<br />
<br />
Brown booby present now 6am. Seen since 5:30.<br />
<br />
From dennisvz at optonline.net Mon Aug 22 08:01:42 2011<br />
From: dennisvz at optonline.net (Dennis Varza)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:01:42 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Reading 7<br />
Message-ID: <864B9ABF-28E4-4D5E-8093-490E75096DE4@optonline.net><br />
<br />
Regarding the Great Horned Owl ?Screech?<br />
It appears that they do make such a noise. It seems that it is used <br />
to communicate between parents and young, hence it is not often heard.<br />
<br />
Reading 7<br />
Yellow-billed Cuckoo<br />
<br />
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo scarcely deserves a position with the <br />
songsters, for his note is almost entirely without pitch. His near <br />
relative the Balck-billed Cuckoo is by far the better singer; <br />
nevertheless, the Yellow-billed?s attempts at rythm are not without <br />
merit, for he can give us a ritardanto (ritardano a gradual decrease <br />
in tempo) as perfect as that of the Chat.<br />
<br />
There is very little to say about the Yellow-bill?s music?perhapse <br />
the less said the better. Mr. Cheney sums up the matter in these few <br />
words.: ?The Yellow-breasted Chat exhibits the same rhythmic <br />
peculiarity in his chattings, and so does the Woodpecker drumming on <br />
a board or dry limb for the mere sound of it; but in quality nothing <br />
can be compared with the slopping performance, unless it be that of <br />
the loose-mouthed hound lapping from a pan of milk.? It is evident <br />
that no one can improve on that description,<br />
<br />
It begins with a series of gurgling sounds which rapidly merge into <br />
one another, and then runs down in a slower and slower succession of <br />
syllables sounding like cowlp, cowlp, cowlp, cowlp, cowlp. It is a <br />
perfect ritardando which could not be excelled by the Chat himself <br />
who is an expert at that sort of thing.<br />
<br />
(Personal note: I have found that imitating the clucking sound by <br />
clicking one?s tongue often, not always, causes the bird to show <br />
himself)<br />
<br />
Dennis Varza<br />
Fairfield.<br />
<br />
<br />
From mlr342 at hotmail.com Mon Aug 22 08:08:33 2011<br />
From: mlr342 at hotmail.com (Matthew Rymkiewicz)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:08:33 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] (no subject)<br />
Message-ID: <SNT115-W61E2FE6A3BDFA2E21847E0892F0@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
It?s the right way to be healthy... http://tier-spezi.com/com.page.php?aCID=92ax0<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
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From rmharvey at snet.net Mon Aug 22 09:35:26 2011<br />
From: rmharvey at snet.net (Roy Harvey)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:35:26 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper, Rocky Hill Meadows<br />
Message-ID: <1314020126.719.YahooMailClassic@web81501.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
I just (9:30) had a call from Paul Desjardins.<br />
<br />
A Baird's Sandpiper just flew in at Rocky Hill Meadows in Rocky Hill. If I got his description right there is a pool near the first major intersection as you drive in (where you can take a left), and it was in there.<br />
<br />
<br />
Roy Harvey<br />
Beacon Falls, CT<br />
<br />
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From sunrisebirding at aol.com Mon Aug 22 12:08:59 2011<br />
From: sunrisebirding at aol.com (Sunrisebirding)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:08:59 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] FALL MIGRATION BIRD WALKS start August 24!<br />
In-Reply-To: <260317613.376261314028581951.JavaMail.root@mbs15.homesteadmail.com><br />
References: <260317613.376261314028581951.JavaMail.root@mbs15.homesteadmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <8CE2EFCEF97713D-CC4-512ED@webmail-d037.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
Hello Birders!<br />
Fall migration is underway and Luke Tiller and Julian Hough are<br />
offering a series of guided Bird Walks! Details and registration at<br />
http://www.sunrisebirding.com/walks.htm Please forward to interested<br />
birders!<br />
<br />
=============================================================<br />
FALL SHOREBIRD WALKS WITH JULIAN HOUGH<br />
With shorebirds, herons, egrets and other species on the move, Sunrise<br />
Birding<br />
is offering a series of evening walks at Sandy Point, West Haven - one<br />
of the<br />
state's premier coastal birding spots. Among a variety of species, we<br />
will be<br />
focusing mainly on shorebirds to help you improve your identification<br />
skills -<br />
learn how size, structure and habitat can help your identification.<br />
Evening is a<br />
great time of visit Sandy Point, so If you want to get out in the field<br />
for some<br />
relaxing evening birding and have fun with like-minded birders, please<br />
join us<br />
on one of the walks:<br />
<br />
EVENINGS:<br />
Wednesday, August 24: 6-8 PM<br />
Wednesday, August 31: 6-8 PM<br />
Wednesday, September 7: 6-8 PM<br />
<br />
Mornings<br />
Saturday, September 10: 8-10 AM<br />
<br />
=============================================================<br />
FALL BIRD WALKS WITH LUKE TILLER<br />
Sunday August 28: Westport Shorebirds, Grace Salmon & Sherwood Island,<br />
1 PM<br />
Saturday September 17: Trout Brook Valley, Easton, 7:30 AM<br />
Sunday September 25: Westport Warblering, 7:30 AM<br />
Saturday October 8: Allen?s Meadows and Secret Hotspots in Wilton, 7:30<br />
AM<br />
Saturday October 29: Sparrow Big Day ? Allen?s Meadows to Sherwood<br />
Island, 7:30 AM<br />
<br />
=============================================================<br />
The fee for guided Bird Walks is $10 per person and online registration<br />
is<br />
required. A confirmation with directions and meeting location will be<br />
emailed to<br />
registered participants a few days before the event. Please review the<br />
terms and<br />
conditions prior to registering. Participants are encouraged to dress<br />
for the<br />
weather, bring binoculars, insect repellent, water, and a spotting<br />
scope (if you<br />
have one). Watch for our fall warbler and hawk walks coming soon!<br />
<br />
Gina Nichol<br />
Sunrise Birding, LLC<br />
Worldwide Bird Watching Tours & Wildlife Safaris<br />
P.O. Box 274<br />
Cos Cob, CT 06807-0274 USA<br />
Office: 1.203.453.6724<br />
Web site: http://www.sunrisebirding.com<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From nbonomo at gmail.com Mon Aug 22 14:42:29 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:42:29 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] 8/22 - Hammo & Sandy Pt<br />
Message-ID: <CABgXtNdpKQQsHHO-Lb=jEmZ1P4-j0948+ksRd4DzCLm_28Fiyw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
As expected, it appears that overall shorebird numbers along the coast<br />
are down following last night's cold front passage. Hammonasset Beach<br />
SP was quiet with a PECTORAL SANDPIPER being the only notable<br />
shorebird. There was a diurnal migration going on, with a few<br />
Bobolinks and many swallows moving down the coast. Best was a single<br />
CLIFF SWALLOW.<br />
<br />
Sandy Point at low tide was very quiet. Nothing of note and shorebird<br />
numbers were minimal, including a grand total of 9 peep (5 Semis, 4<br />
Leasts). There was a stiff NW breeze so I'd expect that Lighthouse Pt<br />
had its first trickle of hawks today.<br />
<br />
On the upside, decent numbers of Common Terns and Laughing Gulls at<br />
both locations.<br />
<br />
We'll have to keep an eye on Hurricane Irene and see what, if any,<br />
effects we feel from her.<br />
<br />
Nick Bonomo<br />
Wallingford, CT<br />
www.shorebirder.com<br />
<br />
<br />
From petermgreen at hotmail.com Mon Aug 22 15:17:51 2011<br />
From: petermgreen at hotmail.com (Tina and Peter Green)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:17:51 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Westport WW Scoter Still Here<br />
Message-ID: <BLU145-W202BFB3D551C1C2B51C2EDAF2F0@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
8/22/11 -Westport - Compo Beach- White-winged Scoter continues just five feet from the beach today,preening a bit and looking like he's not going anywhere. Cockenoe Island had 41 American Oystercatchers. Good numbers of shorebirds around for Westport including Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers,Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers,Ruddy Turnstones,Spotted Sandpiper on the beach and the sandbars.Also lots of Common Terns and Laughing Gulls still around and a Forster's Tern at the mouth of the Saugatuck River.<br />
<br />
Sherwood Island SP - Quiet except for 53 Killdeer just off the rotary area and a small group of four Blue-gray Gnatcatchers moving through. I am seeing lots of juvenile Cedar Waxwings and had 30+ Chimney Swifts on the move this morning.<br />
<br />
Tina Green<br />
Westport<br />
<br />
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From htg1523 at att.net Mon Aug 22 15:55:09 2011<br />
From: htg1523 at att.net (Hank Golet)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:55:09 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Griswold Pt<br />
Message-ID: <9B3F6EF49763436B869E6E9FE9A2B7A3@D5YDTZ61><br />
<br />
>From Hank Golet<br />
8/22 Old Lyme, Griswold Pt, Late this morning, dead low tide, on the sandbar that is just west of the end of the point. There is a red ball channel marker near by. 3 FORSTER'S TERNS, 4 BLACK TERNS, 1 CASPIAN TERN <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From jhannan at audubon.org Mon Aug 22 15:59:51 2011<br />
From: jhannan at audubon.org (Hannan, John)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:59:51 -0700<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Big Year<br />
In-Reply-To: <1313688215.079523004@webmail.fineartstudioonline.com><br />
References: <1313688215.079523004@webmail.fineartstudioonline.com><br />
Message-ID: <8BA495A68578C64397734BAD70696E7A1289AD86FA@VA3DIAXVS6C1.RED001.local><br />
<br />
Last week there were a couple of posts about the upcoming movie, The Big Year. Those who read the book already know the plot is very funny and we will all probably recognize one or two birding traits of our own in the movie's main characters.<br />
<br />
The film makers do want this to be a movie birders will both enjoy and be able to use to recruit new members to our ranks and organizations. They consulted with both Cornell Lab and National Audubon on how to make scenes and species as realistic and true to geographic locations as possible.<br />
<br />
The movie has turned Steve Martin into a committed birder too!<br />
<br />
For more info on the film here is a website:<br />
<br />
http://big-year-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
John Hannan<br />
Senior Director of Strategic Gifts for the Atlantic Flyway<br />
&<br />
Director of Development for Audubon in Connecticut<br />
National Audubon Society<br />
613 Riversville Road<br />
Greenwich, CT 06831<br />
<br />
Tel 203-869-5272 ext. 234<br />
Cell 917-293-8302<br />
Fax 203-869-4437<br />
<br />
jhannan at audubon.org<br />
<br />
www.audubonct.org<br />
www.audubon.org/atlantic-flyways<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From mswanhall at earthlink.net Mon Aug 22 16:04:57 2011<br />
From: mswanhall at earthlink.net (martin swanhall)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:04:57 -0400 (GMT-04:00)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Big Year<br />
Message-ID: <26722639.1314043497731.JavaMail.root@mswamui-backed.atl.sa.earthlink.net><br />
<br />
Not bad for Steve Mrrtin - comedian, actor, film write, novelist, Grammy Award Winning banjoist, and now a birder.<br />
<br />
He is truly a WILD AND CRAZY GUY!!!<br />
<br />
Marty in Woodbury<br />
<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
>From: "Hannan, John" <jhannan at audubon.org><br />
>Sent: Aug 22, 2011 3:59 PM<br />
>To: "ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
>Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Big Year<br />
><br />
>Last week there were a couple of posts about the upcoming movie, The Big Year. Those who read the book already know the plot is very funny and we will all probably recognize one or two birding traits of our own in the movie's main characters.<br />
><br />
>The film makers do want this to be a movie birders will both enjoy and be able to use to recruit new members to our ranks and organizations. They consulted with both Cornell Lab and National Audubon on how to make scenes and species as realistic and true to geographic locations as possible.<br />
><br />
>The movie has turned Steve Martin into a committed birder too!<br />
><br />
>For more info on the film here is a website:<br />
><br />
>http://big-year-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/<br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
>John Hannan<br />
>Senior Director of Strategic Gifts for the Atlantic Flyway<br />
>&<br />
>Director of Development for Audubon in Connecticut<br />
>National Audubon Society<br />
>613 Riversville Road<br />
>Greenwich, CT 06831<br />
><br />
>Tel 203-869-5272 ext. 234<br />
>Cell 917-293-8302<br />
>Fax 203-869-4437<br />
><br />
>jhannan at audubon.org<br />
><br />
>www.audubonct.org<br />
>www.audubon.org/atlantic-flyways<br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
>_______________________________________________<br />
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<br />
From Leslie.Meredith at simonandschuster.com Mon Aug 22 17:04:35 2011<br />
From: Leslie.Meredith at simonandschuster.com (Meredith, Leslie)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:04:35 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] The Big Year<br />
In-Reply-To: <8BA495A68578C64397734BAD70696E7A1289AD86FA@VA3DIAXVS6C1.RED001.local><br />
References: <1313688215.079523004@webmail.fineartstudioonline.com><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><8BA495A68578C64397734BAD70696E7A1289AD86FA@VA3DIAXVS6C1.RED001.local><br />
Message-ID: <79EF7891C278C24E8E7DB5580B2B4A6A0137454E32@NYDCMX24.cbs.ad.cbs.net><br />
<br />
I've refrained from posting about the movie on this list because I edited the book, but since 2 folks have mentioned the book-movie connection (thank you!), I can also mention that one of the 3 birders featured in the book, Greg Miller, who is a professional guide, was also brought in to consult on set. He has some fun posts about his time in V'couver on this site: http://www.gregmillerbirding.com/about/<br />
<br />
The trailer IS coming soon, post-Labor Day!<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org [mailto:ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org] On Behalf Of Hannan, John<br />
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 4:00 PM<br />
To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Big Year<br />
<br />
Last week there were a couple of posts about the upcoming movie, The Big Year. Those who read the book already know the plot is very funny and we will all probably recognize one or two birding traits of our own in the movie's main characters.<br />
<br />
The film makers do want this to be a movie birders will both enjoy and be able to use to recruit new members to our ranks and organizations. They consulted with both Cornell Lab and National Audubon on how to make scenes and species as realistic and true to geographic locations as possible.<br />
<br />
The movie has turned Steve Martin into a committed birder too!<br />
<br />
For more info on the film here is a website:<br />
<br />
http://big-year-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
John Hannan<br />
Senior Director of Strategic Gifts for the Atlantic Flyway<br />
&<br />
Director of Development for Audubon in Connecticut<br />
National Audubon Society<br />
613 Riversville Road<br />
Greenwich, CT 06831<br />
<br />
Tel 203-869-5272 ext. 234<br />
Cell 917-293-8302<br />
Fax 203-869-4437<br />
<br />
jhannan at audubon.org<br />
<br />
www.audubonct.org<br />
www.audubon.org/atlantic-flyways<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
_______________________________________________<br />
This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut.<br />
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From rmharvey at snet.net Mon Aug 22 18:23:12 2011<br />
From: rmharvey at snet.net (Roy Harvey)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:23:12 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] More Tagged Gulls to Watch For<br />
Message-ID: <1314051792.65625.YahooMailClassic@web81505.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
I was asked to pass along the message that can be found below.<br />
<br />
Roy Harvey<br />
Beacon Falls, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
Dear gull enthusiasts,<br />
<br />
I am a researcher at Acadia University working with Dr. Phil Taylor on a new project studying the movements and migrations of gulls from Sable Island, Nova Scotia. In June 2011 we banded Herring Gulls with PINK alpha-numeric bands as well as PINK wing-tags which are quite obvious in flight or on land. We also banded Great Black-backed Gull chicks with GREEN alpha-numeric bands.<br />
<br />
Reports of these birds throughout the year will greatly enhance the success of this project to document the movements and migrations of gulls from this far offshore colony.<br />
<br />
Please visit my blog where you can learn more about the project and find links on how to report marked birds that you've spotted. I will be posting photos and stories of re-sighted birds on this blog, so sign up for e-mail updates.<br />
<br />
http://sableislandgulls.wordpress.com/<br />
<br />
Please contact me if you see these or other marked gulls over the fall and winter. The blog also contains links to other gull banding projects.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Rob Ronconi, rronconi at yahoo.com<br />
Postdoctoral Researcher<br />
Dept. of Biology, Acadia University<br />
<br />
<br />
From philiprusch at charter.net Mon Aug 22 19:35:24 2011<br />
From: philiprusch at charter.net (philiprusch at charter.net)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:35:24 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Mansfield Hollow shorebirds 8/22<br />
Message-ID: <19c9dde0.f7fd9.131f3d93890.Webtop.46@charter.net><br />
<br />
<br />
The water level at the Mansfield Hollow Reservoir as seen from the dam<br />
on Rt 6 in Windham has been lowered again. This evening I saw the<br />
following:<br />
<br />
Great Blue Heron 7<br />
Great Egret 1<br />
Killdeer 26<br />
Lesser Yellowlegs 4<br />
Solitary Sandpiper 11<br />
Spotted Sandpiper 3<br />
Least Sandpiper 34<br />
Semipal Sandpiper 3<br />
White-rumped Sandpiper 1<br />
<br />
Interestingly there was not a single shorebird on the airport side of<br />
the dam<br />
<br />
Phil Rusch<br />
Chaplin<br />
<br />
From bpropen at gmail.com Mon Aug 22 20:00:35 2011<br />
From: bpropen at gmail.com (Beverly Propen)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:00:35 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] screech owl<br />
Message-ID: <CAMcNzanZemAaXPcwpf5eA2Z4JyDs_g-f0thj1QRQivrBtD9PoQ@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
8/22 7:50-7:55PM Screech owl singing in my backyard! First for my yard,<br />
first for my Orange list and a lifer for me. What a melodious song.<br />
Bev Propen, Orange<br />
<br />
From givenrandy at gmail.com Mon Aug 22 20:06:11 2011<br />
From: givenrandy at gmail.com (Randy Given)<br />
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:06:11 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Mystery Bird addendum<br />
Message-ID: <CABzQ++WBzaBQ=Ud_Wpy2Oh0iY0RLi2woh9w6qJ6mrrhFLj+KGA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
I looked at my photos again and I did have one of the bird flying away:<br />
<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63844070 at N03/6071543744/in/photostream/<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, the angle on the tail is opposite of what I'd like.<br />
<br />
Randy Given<br />
<br />
<br />
From chris.grimm at globepequot.com Tue Aug 23 09:11:16 2011<br />
From: chris.grimm at globepequot.com (Grimm, Chris)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:11:16 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Westport Nighthawks 8/23<br />
In-Reply-To: <1313808248.44074.YahooMailClassic@web81505.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
References: <1313808248.44074.YahooMailClassic@web81505.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
Message-ID: <22475359361E9440B90146F4BF3449D9071E3B0B@MTCEBEW101.internal.morris.com><br />
<br />
I only arrived home at about 6:45pm, so may have missed more earlier,<br />
but between 6:50 and 7:00 last night I saw about 18 nighthawks in three<br />
smallish groups circling their way through - above the Greens Farms area<br />
of Westport. I didn't see any more after 7:00.<br />
<br />
<br />
From petermgreen at hotmail.com Tue Aug 23 10:48:16 2011<br />
From: petermgreen at hotmail.com (Tina and Peter Green)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:48:16 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] WW Scoter plus<br />
Message-ID: <BLU145-W239642C8986DE7EECE0F3AAF2E0@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
8/23/11 - Westport - Compo Beach - White-winged Scoter continues just off the beach (today with a beach umbrella and cooler),31 Semipalmated Plovers,4 Ruddy Turnstones,,5 Semipalmated Sandpipers,2 Least Sandpipers<br />
<br />
Sherwood Island SP - An almost constant movement of Barn and Tree Swallows,Chimney Swifts and Eastern Kingbirds heading west along with 2 Common Nighthawks this morning between 8-9:30am<br />
<br />
Tina Green<br />
Westport<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
<br />
From gswilliams9 at yahoo.com Tue Aug 23 10:59:24 2011<br />
From: gswilliams9 at yahoo.com (Glenn Williams)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:59:24 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Bluff Point 8/23 AM<br />
Message-ID: <1314111564.75790.YahooMailClassic@web161308.mail.bf1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
from Nick Bonomo, Jerry Connolly, and Glenn Williams:<br />
8/23 - Groton, Bluff Point State Park -- DICKCISSEL, WILSON'S WARBLER, 5 BOBOLINK 400 warblers of 13 species.<br />
<br />
Other birds of note - Worm-eating Warbler and 3 Warbling Vireo - not common at the park for morning flight, 50 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, an estimated 220 American Redstarts - seemed to be about 80% of the total warblers IDed so probably more than 220.? A possible Cerulean Warbler got away.? Complete list below:<br />
<br />
Canada Goose? 12<br />
Mute Swan? 2<br />
American Black Duck? 4<br />
Mallard? 2<br />
Double-crested Cormorant? 3<br />
Great Blue Heron? 1<br />
Osprey? 2<br />
Greater Yellowlegs? 1<br />
Laughing Gull? 1<br />
Ring-billed Gull? 2<br />
Herring Gull? 4<br />
Rock Pigeon? 2<br />
Mourning Dove? 8<br />
Chimney Swift? 18<br />
Ruby-throated Hummingbird? 12<br />
Belted Kingfisher? 1<br />
Downy Woodpecker? 3<br />
Eastern Wood-Pewee? 4<br />
Least Flycatcher? 1<br />
Empidonax sp.? 4<br />
Eastern Phoebe? 2<br />
Eastern Kingbird? 7<br />
Warbling Vireo? 3<br />
Red-eyed Vireo? 5<br />
Blue Jay? 4<br />
American Crow? 6<br />
Purple Martin? 4<br />
Tree Swallow? 2<br />
Barn Swallow? 1<br />
Tufted Titmouse? 1<br />
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher? 50<br />
Veery? 1<br />
American Robin? 16<br />
Gray Catbird? 10<br />
Northern Mockingbird? 4<br />
European Starling? 2<br />
Cedar Waxwing? 8<br />
Worm-eating Warbler? 1<br />
Blue-winged Warbler? 3<br />
Black-and-white Warbler? 35<br />
Common Yellowthroat? 4<br />
American Redstart? 220<br />
Northern Parula? 2<br />
Magnolia Warbler? 12<br />
Yellow Warbler? 10<br />
Chestnut-sided Warbler? 4<br />
Prairie Warbler? 1<br />
Black-throated Green Warbler? 1<br />
Canada Warbler? 2<br />
Wilson's Warbler? 1<br />
warbler sp.? 100<br />
Eastern Towhee? 10<br />
Song Sparrow? 1<br />
Northern Cardinal? 4<br />
Rose-breasted Grosbeak? 1<br />
Dickcissel? 1<br />
Bobolink? 5<br />
Red-winged Blackbird? 12<br />
Brown-headed Cowbird? 8<br />
Baltimore Oriole? 3<br />
American Goldfinch? 8<br />
<br />
Glenn Williams<br />
Mystic<br />
<br />
From mjwarner at optonline.net Tue Aug 23 11:15:18 2011<br />
From: mjwarner at optonline.net (Mike Warner)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:15:18 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Wilton:Bobolinks<br />
Message-ID: <9D5DDDD4D0204A7587C6493B3D766065@OfficePC><br />
<br />
<br />
8/23/11 - Allens Meadow - 5 Bobolinks, 3 Eastern Kingbirds, 2 Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds, 1 Osprey, 1 juvenile Broad-Winged Hawk.<br />
<br />
Mike Warner<br />
Wilton, CT.<br />
<br />
From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Tue Aug 23 11:22:49 2011<br />
From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:22:49 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Windsor<br />
Message-ID: <62CA47B3-2A4A-4B65-BF74-5030A62CDDD5@gmail.com><br />
<br />
This morning at Northwest Park 8 Black Vultures but almost no migration with only migrants being a Chesnut Sided<br />
Warbler and a male Canada Warbler. Should have gone to Bluff Point this morning!<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From sffaulkner at comcast.net Tue Aug 23 11:52:43 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: sffaulkner at comcast.net (Sarah Faulkner)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:52:43 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Pelagic & Unusual Birds question</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <FBBBF353E81E46C8B6938D02E3C48BB6@SarahPC></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I've been watching the weather forecast, and it seems that Hurricane Irene may pay us a visit here this weekend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">If I were to spend a half-day birding somewhere along the shore in CT or RI (not enough time to get to the Cape), what would be the BEST place(s) to look for pelagics/interesting species that might be blown in? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sarah Faulkner</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Collinsville, CT</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
____________________________________________________________________________<br />
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them<br />
tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."<br />
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Tue Aug 23 11:57:34 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:57:34 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Pelagic & Unusual Birds question</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <FBBBF353E81E46C8B6938D02E3C48BB6@SarahPC></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References: <FBBBF353E81E46C8B6938D02E3C48BB6@SarahPC></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CABgXtNcX42CsVfxjMojMHoQ+jrPqsc0Php-FTKbuRiFJVenHgA@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi Sarah,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">This all depends on storm track. With so much time between now and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">then, so many things can change, and the track is far from certain. As</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">we get closer to the weekend, I'm sure several of us will be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">speculating on potential birds and where to go to look for them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Generally speaking though, you want a point of land that sticks into</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">LI Sound such as (east to west) Stonington Pt, Enders Island,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Cornfield Pt, Meigs Pt, Stratford Pt, Shippan Pt, etc etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick Bonomo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wallingford, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">www.shorebirder.com</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Sarah Faulkner <sffaulkner at comcast.net> wrote:<br />
> I've been watching the weather forecast, and it seems that Hurricane Irene may pay us a visit here this weekend.<br />
><br />
> If I were to spend a half-day birding somewhere along the shore in CT or RI ?(not enough time to get to the Cape), what would be the BEST place(s) to look for pelagics/interesting species that might be blown in?<br />
><br />
> Sarah Faulkner<br />
> Collinsville, CT<br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
> ____________________________________________________________________________<br />
> If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them<br />
> tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."<br />
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />
> _______________________________________________<br />
> This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut.<br />
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From chbarnjr at gmail.com Tue Aug 23 12:50:29 2011<br />
From: chbarnjr at gmail.com (charles barnard jr)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:50:29 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] peregrine falcon carrying a fish<br />
Message-ID: <CAEhpbrWN7gbQn1icw5uk7-=avdbs_DbHbCrCOyV=7nn=S1NcMw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
This morning, at the McKinney refuge in Stratford, I watched as an<br />
immature Peregrine Falcon stole a menhaden from an Osprey in flight.<br />
After a few seconds of carrying the fish away, the peregrine dropped it into<br />
the marsh grasses, circled over it once and moved on. Maybe the fish was too<br />
heavy for it. I had never seen a peregrine going for a fish before.<br />
<br />
From semismart9 at aol.com Tue Aug 23 14:12:09 2011<br />
From: semismart9 at aol.com (semismart9 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:12:09 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Lighthouse Point - 2011-08-23 .. KINGBIRDS<br />
Message-ID: <8CE2FD74EB97E49-17CC-8F9@webmail-d062.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I spent the morning from 7:10 AM until 11:20 AM at Lighthouse Point. Lynn James was there to help count. There was a wonderful North Wind at a scale of 3 , the cloud cover was excellent, and we did have birds.........<br />
<br />
There were actually 3 migrating hawks... 1 Osprey up high and flying Southwest, 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk, and 1 American Kestrel.<br />
<br />
The other birds were incredible this morning...!!<br />
<br />
We had 1 Olive-Sided Flycatcher in the Flicker Tree.<br />
One Greater Yellow-legs and 2 Killdeer flew over the site, as well as 6 Least Sandpipers.<br />
<br />
Bobolinks were heard..... 75 were seen and counted.<br />
Red-winged Blackbirds... 875<br />
Chimney Swifts... 295<br />
<br />
Eastern Kingbirds... 605.. This was the most ever seen by Lynn and I. We had 2 different flocks of 70 birds, 1 flock of 60 birds, 2 of 30+ birds, and several flocks in the 15 - 20 range count. This was even stranger than the day Greg and I had the big hummingbird day.<br />
<br />
Bill Banks<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From semismart9 at aol.com Tue Aug 23 14:17:08 2011<br />
From: semismart9 at aol.com (semismart9 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:17:08 -0400 (EDT)<br />
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From: Jean Iron <jeaniron at SYMPATICO.CA><br />
To: SHOREBIRDS <SHOREBIRDS at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU><br />
Sent: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 10:12 pm<br />
Subject: [SHOREBIRDS] James Bay Shorebird Report #5 - Photos<br />
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This is my fifth and final report for the period 11 to 14 August 2011 at North<br />
oint on the southwest coast of James Bay, Ontario, and includes sightings from<br />
earby Longridge Point from Mark Peck and Little Piskwamish Point from Doug<br />
cRae and Barb Charlton. The OMNR chopper flew survey crews from the three camps<br />
o Moosonee on 14 August. We took the Polar Bear Express train from Moosonee to<br />
ochrane on 15th and drove home to southern Ontario on 16th. Shorebird surveys<br />
re a partnership of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Ontario Ministry of Natural<br />
esources (OMNR), Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) and Moose Cree First Nation<br />
MCFN). The Longridge crew was Mark Peck (ROM), Roy John, Emily Rondel and<br />
ntonio Coral. The Little Piskwamish crew was Don Sutherland (OMNR), Doug McRae,<br />
arb Charlton and Ron Ridout. The North Point crew was Mike McMurtry (OMNR),<br />
ean Iron, Aus Taverner and Minnie Sutherland (MCFN).<br />
SHOREBIRD OBSERVATIONS: A combined total of 27 shorebird species was recorded<br />
or the three camps.<br />
Black-bellied Plover: 56 on 13th at North Point, 28 on 12th at Little<br />
iskwamish, up to 50 daily at Longridge.<br />
American Golden-Plover: 1 molting adult on 11th and 2 on 13th at Little<br />
iskwamish.<br />
Semipalmated Plover: 29 on 12th, including first juvenile, at North Point, 52 on<br />
3th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
Solitary Sandpiper: 4 on 11th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
Greater Yellowlegs: 451 on 11th at North Point (70% juveniles) and 148 on 11th<br />
t Little Piskwamish.<br />
Lesser Yellowlegs: 309 on 11th at North Point (80% juveniles) and 691 mostly<br />
uveniles on 11th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
Whimbrel: 6 on 11th at North Point.<br />
Hudsonian Godwit: 160 molting adults on 12th at North Point and 290 on 11th at<br />
ittle Piskwamish, where a Hudsonian Godwit with red flag CMC from Chile was<br />
een and photographed on 31 July.<br />
Marbled Godwit, 1 adult male with 2 juveniles on 11, 12 and 13th at North Point,<br />
lus an additional juvenile on 11th.<br />
Ruddy Turnstone: 49 adults on 13th at North Point and 58 on 11th at Little<br />
iskwamish. Longridge recorded a Ruddy Turnstone with a lime green flag from<br />
elaware Bay, USA, on 10th.<br />
RED KNOT: Of the three surveys sites for this period Little Piskwamish had the<br />
ighest one day count of 2400 on 11th, Longridge had 250 on 12th, and North<br />
oint only 5 on 13th. FLAGS: The combined three sites for the entire survey<br />
allied about 2000 individual sightings of flags representing more than 600<br />
ifferently marked birds from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, United States and<br />
anada. Celebrity knot TY was last seen at Longridge on 11 August. A knot with a<br />
hite flag placed in Quebec was seen many times during the final two week<br />
eriod. DATALOGGERS: Longridge recorded 2 dataloggers and Little Piskwamish had<br />
, all put on in the United States. JUVENILES: The juvenile knot migration was<br />
ust starting when we left. Little Piskwamish, 7 juveniles on 11th. North<br />
oint, 2 juveniles on 11th. Longridge, several juveniles on 12th. It would be<br />
nteresting to know how many juveniles stage on the James Bay and how long they<br />
tay. We hope to survey longer next year.<br />
Sanderling: 26 molting adults on 11th at North Point, 8 on 13th at Little<br />
iskwamish. Longridge recorded a lime green flag from Delaware Bay, USA.<br />
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 5100 on 11th at North Point were still almost all<br />
dults. Increased numbers of juveniles arrived on the afternoon of 13th. A bird<br />
ith flag lime OHU from the USA was at North Point on 13th. Longridge recorded a<br />
ellow flag from Suriname on 28 July and 7 August.<br />
Least Sandpiper: 308 on 12th at North Point were almost all juveniles. 277 on<br />
1th at Little Piskwamish were all juveniles.<br />
White-rumped Sandpiper: 31,657 on 11th at Little Piskwamish. 9800 molting adults<br />
n 11th at North Point. This is the commonest shorebird in southern James Bay.<br />
Pectoral Sandpiper: 436 non-molting adults on 12th at North Point. 295 on 11th<br />
t Little Piskwamish.<br />
Dunlin: 209 adults on 11th at North Point were starting to show signs of molt.<br />
95 on 11th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
Short-billed Dowitcher: 27 on 11th at Little Piskwamish, those seen well were<br />
uveniles.<br />
Wilson's Snipe: 13 on 12th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
Wilson's Phalarope: 1 juvenile on 11th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
Red-necked Phalarope: 1 adult on 11th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
SHOREBIRD MIGRATION: A huge southbound migration took place on 11th and 13th<br />
uring the day, taking advantage of strong north winds. Birds were high and very<br />
ocal. Flock size varied from 6 to 70 and included Black-bellied Plovers,<br />
reater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Whimbrel, Hudsonian Godwits, Pectoral Sandpipers,<br />
hite-rumped Sandpipers, Dunlin and Ruddy Turnstones.<br />
OTHER BIRDS: In rough checklist order: Canada Goose, 476 on 11th at North Point<br />
nd 853 at Little Piskwamish. 3 Northern Harriers at North Point included 2<br />
uveniles on 12th and 13th, which were catching Savannah Sparrows. Small mammals<br />
umbers were extremely low on the wide coastal prairie-like expanses. Sandhill<br />
rane, 38 on 12th at North Point and 30 on 11th at Little Piskwamish. Little<br />
ull, 1 juvenile on 12th at Little Piskwamish. Bonaparte's Gull, 466 on 11th at<br />
ittle Piskwamish and 8 on 13th at North Point. Common Tern, 33 on 13th at North<br />
oint included many family groups with adults feeding noisy juveniles. Arctic<br />
ern, a family group of 4 on 13th at Little Piskwamish. Long-eared Owl, 1 on<br />
3th at Longridge was seen and heard. BELTED KINGFISHER: 1 on 11th at Longridge<br />
as new for our survey camps checklist. Northern Shrike, 1 on 12th at Little<br />
iskwamish. Olive-sided Flycatcher, 2 on 13th and 14th at North Point. Common<br />
avens, 8 on 12th at North Point; one caught !<br />
a sandpiper on 13th. Boreal Chickadee, 1 daily at Little Piskwamish. Gray Jay,<br />
air with a dark juvenile regular at North Point and Little Piskwamish camps,<br />
uveniles are molting now. Swallow migration at Little Piskwamish: Tree Swallow,<br />
3 on 12th, Bank Swallow, 2 on 12th. Swainson's Thrush, 2 still at North Point<br />
amp on 13th. American Pipit, 1 on 12th and 13th with damaged right eye at North<br />
oint. WARBLERS at North Point in pre-migration flocks included Tennessee,<br />
range-crowned, Cape May, Yellow-rumped, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Palm,<br />
lack-and-white, American Redstart, Wilson's and Canada. Little Piskwamish had a<br />
allout of warblers on 12th. Sparrows: Le Conte's Sparrow, 4 on 11th and 12th at<br />
ittle Piskwamish. Nelson's Sparrow, 11 on 11th at Little Piskwamish, Swamp<br />
parrow, 33 on 12th at Little Piskwamish. Savannah Sparrow, 130 on 11th at<br />
ittle Piskwamish and 59 on 11th at North Point. Clay-colored Sparrow, 2 on 12th<br />
t North Point. Rusty Blackbird, 8 on 11th at Lit!<br />
tle Piskwamish. Common Grackle, 1 on 13th at Little Piskwamish. Purple<br />
Finch, at least 1 daily at Little Piskwamish and one on 12th and 13th at North<br />
oint. White-winged Crossbills fed on ripening spruce cones at North Point and<br />
ere seen and heard regularly at Little Piskwamish.<br />
MAMMALS: Male Moose with large antlers seen from helicopter near Longridge on<br />
4th. Gray Wolf tracks on 11th at North Point. Black Bear seen most days at<br />
ongridge. Unidentified bat on 11th and 14th at Longridge. Heather Vole, 1 on<br />
2th at Little Piskwamish.<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I especially thank Ron Pittaway for posting my reports from<br />
ames Bay. Ron inspired my love of shorebirds and encouraged me to volunteer for<br />
orthern surveys with the OMNR and ROM.<br />
PHOTOS of this summer's survey.<br />
ww.jeaniron.ca/2011/JamesBay2011/index.htm<br />
Jean Iron<br />
oronto, Ontario<br />
anada<br />
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From janmehmel at gmail.com Tue Aug 23 17:06:35 2011<br />
From: janmehmel at gmail.com (Janet Mehmel)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:06:35 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER<br />
Message-ID: <CAOvLLxKvXNOkDLeqz3ux+wcY0F-P+3B9LixOByzomsX1ZdFmYA@mail.gmail.com><br />
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8/23/11 - - Branford, Quarry Road off Rt 146 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER on the<br />
east side of the road. Also saw American Redstarts, Canada Warbler, Black<br />
and White Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, lots of Tree Swallows.<br />
Quarry Rd has a fresh water swamp on both sides with water right up to the<br />
road. I was there looking for butterflies because there are many alders and<br />
button bush along the road.<br />
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janet mehmel<br />
guilford<br />
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From alexanderburdo at mac.com Tue Aug 23 20:25:24 2011<br />
From: alexanderburdo at mac.com (Alexander Burdo)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:25:24 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] 8/23 - Fairfield Migrants<br />
Message-ID: <554C52F3-2D1D-412B-AAA5-7191D531B278@mac.com><br />
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I was able to sneak in some birding in the evening after being busy with school stuff most of the day. Both the Birdcraft Sanctuary and South Pine Creek were much more productive in terms of migrants than I had expected with eight species of warbler being seen. It was a great day except for the fact that my bike was stolen, which was my main way of getting to birding spots.<br />
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Highlights below:<br />
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Birdcraft Sanctuary: 3-4pm<br />
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1 Black-throated Blue Warbler<br />
5 Black-and-white Warbler<br />
11 American Redstart<br />
1 Northern Waterthrush<br />
2 Common Yellowthroat<br />
1 Wilson's Warbler<br />
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South Pine Creek OS: 5-6pm<br />
1-2 Magnolia Warbler<br />
8 Black-and-white Warbler<br />
9 American Redstart<br />
2 Common Yellowthroat<br />
2 Canada Warbler<br />
plus....<br />
12 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron<br />
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird<br />
1 "Traill's" Flycatcher<br />
1 Warbling Vireo<br />
4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher<br />
1 Eastern Bluebird -- flyover; my first for this location, very uncommon south of I-95 in Fairfield<br />
<br />
Alex Burdo<br />
Fairfield<br />
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From Mntncougar at aol.com Tue Aug 23 21:50:03 2011<br />
From: Mntncougar at aol.com (Mntncougar at aol.com)<br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:50:03 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Barred owl, Black Vulture, Canaan Mtn, N. Canaan<br />
Message-ID: <173d60.50cc167b.3b85b2cb@aol.com><br />
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Spotted a Barred Owl who had already spotted me on Canaan Mtn, N. Canaan,<br />
today. When I tried to get a little closer I momentarily passed behind a<br />
tree, and when I came out the other side, he was gone, like a ghost. Tree was<br />
about 10 inches diameter, and all I heard was the slightest whisper of air.<br />
Also, one Black Vulture riding the updrafts from the very light NW wind.<br />
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Pics of the BAOW here, sorry for the dupes.<br />
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http://www.photoshop.com/users/mntncougar/albums/d4a6d84e0aaf4ba09ca2d2310b3<br />
eaa2e/slideshow<br />
<br />
Don Morgan<br />
Coventry<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From robben99 at gmail.com Wed Aug 24 00:47:46 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:47:46 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Irene appears to aiming at us</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CANpJbq2cTe0obwC2+f20xJ1kEHHu9Mo-TpsFdHdYfopNXeJ5wA@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi Sarah,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">As Nick said, its definitely too early to be sure of anything, but as of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">moment hurricane Irene SEEMS to be pointed toward a glancing hit on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">NorthCarolina 8pm Saturday and a second landfall around New York City 8pm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sunday evening, as per this map from NOAA National Hurricane Center.....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:09L_2011_5day.gif</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">As my friend P.A.Buckley has noted, some of the best birds may be found</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">under or east of the eye of the storm.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Monday August 29th might be a good day to schedule as a "vacation day" if</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">possible. From a birding point of view, Irene's currently estimated track</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">is extremely exciting, and all the East Coast bird lists will probably start</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">buzzing about this hurricane in the next few days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom Robben</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Glastonbury CT</span><br />
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Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Pelagic & Unusual Birds question<br />
From: Nick Bonomo <nbonomo AT gmail.com><br />
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:57:34 -0400<br />
Hi Sarah,<br />
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This all depends on storm track. With so much time between now and<br />
then, so many things can change, and the track is far from certain. As<br />
we get closer to the weekend, I'm sure several of us will be<br />
speculating on potential birds and where to go to look for them.<br />
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Generally speaking though, you want a point of land that sticks into<br />
LI Sound such as (east to west) Stonington Pt, Enders Island,<br />
Cornfield Pt, Meigs Pt, Stratford Pt, Shippan Pt, etc etc.<br />
<br />
Nick<br />
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Nick Bonomo<br />
Wallingford, CT<br />
www.shorebirder.com<br />
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Sarah Faulkner<br />
wrote:<br />
<br />
> I've been watching the weather forecast, and it seems that Hurricane<br />
Irene<br />
may pay us a visit here this weekend.<br />
<br />
><br />
> If I were to spend a half-day birding somewhere along the shore in CT or<br />
RI<br />
?(not enough time to get to the Cape), what would be the BEST place(s) to<br />
look<br />
for pelagics/interesting species that might be blown in?<br />
<br />
><br />
> Sarah Faulkner<br />
> Collinsville, CT<br />
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From jtrouern at gmail.com Wed Aug 24 06:46:30 2011<br />
From: jtrouern at gmail.com (Jonathan Trouern-Trend)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:46:30 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Rocky Hill Meadows<br />
Message-ID: <CANWtARj3WirQw2WLBErY-P0RARsbBJNgHbSwS+keHhLs7rh8qA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Still a good collection of shorebirds at the large puddle at the<br />
intersection of Great Meadow Road and North Meadow Lane in the Rocky Hill<br />
Meadows. I visited twice yesterday (8 AM and 5:30PM).<br />
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8/23/2011 - 8am<br />
Killdeer - 15<br />
Semipalmated Plover - 8<br />
Lesser Yellowlegs - 2<br />
Solitary Sandpiper - 1<br />
Least Sandpiper - 10<br />
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 3<br />
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8/23/2011 - 5:30pm<br />
Killdeer - 45<br />
Least Sandpiper - 30<br />
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 10<br />
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Jonathan Trouern-Trend<br />
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From teustis at killingworthlibrary.org Wed Aug 24 07:16:20 2011<br />
From: teustis at killingworthlibrary.org (Tammy Eustis)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:16:20 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Chester, 8/23 - owls, hawks, etc.<br />
Message-ID: <W84442169883231314184580@webmail15><br />
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Chester, 8/23 - one GREAT-HORNED OWL, three RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS, three ORIOLES, one BARRED OWL. A lucrative day, morning to night!<br />
~ Tammy Eustis, Chester<br />
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From flybird at optonline.net Wed Aug 24 08:31:19 2011<br />
From: flybird at optonline.net (Stacy Hanks)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:31:19 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] American Bittern<br />
Message-ID: <F33FCCAACC954E2997CA490673D6E28A@racPC><br />
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>From Stacy Hanks:<br />
8/24 - Milford, Beachland Ave - AMERICAN BITTERN on power lines. Found this most unusual.<br />
Looked like something was spooking birds out of the marsh. Snowy Egret was flying around and also trying to land on power line. It was why I saw the Bittern.<br />
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From bpropen at gmail.com Wed Aug 24 13:49:03 2011<br />
From: bpropen at gmail.com (Beverly Propen)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:49:03 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] CACC<br />
Message-ID: <CAMcNza=QHsBvhbVvca2Nwt=ius3xtfi8gcSbSgfCVvyopko+mQ@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
8/24 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center<br />
10AM-1PM mid tide, receding, sunny/partly cloudy 75 degrees<br />
2 juvenile ospreys were on the nest & camera all morning. They took a brief<br />
flight, but basically stayed on the nest area. One was eating a fish;both<br />
were calling all morning.<br />
1 spotted sandpiper in the grasses by the marsh mud as tide was receding.<br />
about 100 semipalmated plovers, and about 50 semipalmated sandpipers,<br />
D.C. cormorants, mute swans, common terns, 1 juvenile N. harrier soaring<br />
around the marsh, snowy egrets, Great egrets, 1 Laughing gull.<br />
2 Peregrines doing some acrobatic flying over the marsh, catbird, mourning<br />
doves, goldfinches, tree swallows, many Red winged blackbird juveniles,<br />
house sparrows, song sparrows, catbird, mockingbird, cardinal, cowbirds and<br />
16 American black ducks. No purple martins at the martin condo.<br />
Bev Propen, Orange<br />
<br />
From dlawton at sbcglobal.net Wed Aug 24 14:56:32 2011<br />
From: dlawton at sbcglobal.net (D Lawton)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:56:32 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Hunting in Bushnell Park<br />
Message-ID: <1314212192.8510.YahooMailRC@web80506.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
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An unanticipated delight: At the little pond in Bushnell Park in downtown<br />
Hartford, I just witnessed an Osprey descend, circle, hover then dive and<br />
successfully grab lunch out of the pond between the two fountains... while two<br />
Peregrines wheeled far above the Travelers Tower.<br />
<br />
David<br />
www.DailyBirder.com<br />
<br />
From kmueller at ntplx.net Wed Aug 24 15:24:43 2011<br />
From: kmueller at ntplx.net (kmueller at ntplx.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:24:43 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Saturdays R. I. Block Canyon Pelagic report,<br />
results and images Keith Mueller<br />
Message-ID: <20110824152443.23631wh8rar8m3nf@webmail.netplex.net><br />
<br />
My friend Tom Robben just put the finishing touches on saturday's <br />
Rhode Island Block Canyon Pelagic trip report and results on our blog <br />
Coastal Birds: http://coastalbirds2.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
Part 2 of this report is included as an Addendum and is viewed at the <br />
bottom of Block Canyon Pelagic after the species highlights.<br />
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It was great to see eveyone on the trip.<br />
<br />
Enjoy the report!<br />
<br />
Keith Mueller<br />
Tom Robben<br />
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From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Wed Aug 24 16:15:53 2011<br />
From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:15:53 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Stratford Black Tern & Skimmers<br />
Message-ID: <1314216953.89827.YahooMailRC@web80003.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
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>From Frank Mantlik<br />
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8/24 Stratford, Dorne Drive, Short Beach Park, 2:15 - 3:30pm - At the mouth of<br />
the Housatonic River, large flocks of foaraging and resting terns included: 1500<br />
Common Terns, 1 BLACK TERN (saw it fly by once towards Stratford Point; perhaps<br />
didn't stay to feed), 5 BLACK SKIMMERS (1 adult & 4 juveniles present the whole<br />
time). Note: non-residents are still charged an auto parking fee.<br />
<br />
8/23 Stratford, Short Beach Park - 2500 Common Terns, resting and fishing at the<br />
river mouth.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From mswanhall at earthlink.net Wed Aug 24 18:58:40 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: mswanhall at earthlink.net (martin swanhall)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:58:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Irene</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <23439207.1314226720653.JavaMail.root@mswamui-swiss.atl.sa.earthlink.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">>From Peter Trull of MASSBIRDS...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">"massbirders,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">If Hurricane Irene hits the Cape Cod with the suggested high force winds, it </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">could be devastating to migratory bird populations, especially roseate and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">common terns. South Beach and Monomoy Is, Chatham and Sandy Neck Barnstable </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">are major staging and roosting areas for both species. Roseate Terns in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">eastern North America, including Falkners Is. and Gt. Gull Is., in CT and NY </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">respectively, have also been major areas for these birds to stage during </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">post breeding dispersal. Both are in the path of Irene......</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hurricanes bring exciting observations for us birders, but they have their </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">downside related to high avian mortality.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Peter Trull</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Brewster, MA</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">petrull at comcast.net</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">www.wildcapecod.com" </span><br />
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<br />
From lk06 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 24 22:22:56 2011<br />
From: lk06 at yahoo.com (lk06)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:22:56 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawks at New Haven Open Tennis, 8/24<br />
Message-ID: <1314238976.83701.YahooMailClassic@web111413.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
4-5 nighthawks flying above the lights during the Maria Kirilenko v Na Li<br />
match from 8:20 - 9:00 pm at the New Haven Open Tennis Stadium.<br />
<br />
--Lane<br />
<br />
<br />
From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Wed Aug 24 22:24:36 2011<br />
From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (paul wolter)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:24:36 -0400 (GMT-04:00)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Hartford County Birding<br />
Message-ID: <15200635.1314239076812.JavaMail.root@elwamui-royal.atl.sa.earthlink.net><br />
<br />
<br />
from Paul Desjardins and Paul Wolter<br />
<br />
8/24/11 Windsor, NorthWest Park. Common Raven 2, Least Sandpiper 2, Merlin 1, Chestnut Sided Warbler 1, Scarlet Tanager 1.<br />
8/24/11 Suffield, Lewis Farm. Black Throated Green Warbler 1, Canada Warbler 1, American Redstart 1.<br />
8/24/11 East Granby, Greenstone Hollow. Ruby Throated Hummingbird 2, American Redstart 4, Red Eyed Vireo 2.<br />
8/24/11 Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill Meadows. Greater Yellowlegs 5, Least Sandpiper 25, Semi Palmated Sandpiper 1.<br />
<br />
<br />
From timant123 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 24 23:22:54 2011<br />
From: timant123 at yahoo.com (Tim Antanaitis)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:22:54 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Griswold Point Stilt Sandpiper<br />
Message-ID: <1314242574.10811.YahooMailNeo@web125706.mail.ne1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
8/24 - Old Lyme, Griswold Point -- 1 STILT SANDPIPER, 3 FORSTER'S TERNS<br />
<br />
Kayaked from Smith Neck Road boat launch.? Low tide was 1:00.? Saw the Stilt around 2:00 just east of the western most Osprey platform (only platform on GP?) on Griswold Point.<br />
<br />
Also 9 other common shorebird species (about 100 total shorebirds):<br />
3 Short-billed Dowitcher<br />
9 Greater Yellowlegs<br />
2 Lesser Yellowlegs<br />
3 Ruddy Turnstone<br />
5 Willet<br />
7 Least Sandpiper<br />
20 Semipalmated Sandpiper<br />
30 Black-bellied Plover<br />
25 Semipalmated Plover<br />
<br />
45 Common Tern<br />
1 Least Tern<br />
<br />
<br />
Tim Antanaitis<br />
Middletown<br />
<br />
From j.mcbride at yale.edu Wed Aug 24 23:35:16 2011<br />
From: j.mcbride at yale.edu (Florence McBride)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:35:16 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Common NIghthawks at the New Haven Open<br />
In-Reply-To: <mailman.71.1314201621.13769.ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org@lists.ctbirding.o<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>rg><br />
References: <mailman.71.1314201621.13769.ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org@lists.ctbirding.o<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>rg><br />
Message-ID: <p0623092fca7b6669abe1@[10.0.1.3]><br />
<br />
8/24/11 New Haven over the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale,<br />
8:15-9:30 pm COMMON NIGHTHAWKS. The most seen at any one time was<br />
five or six. While watching the match, I kept a running total of<br />
birds sighted after dark; when we left at about 9:30 it was up to 58<br />
(single birds, 2 or 3 at once, and one sighting of 5 or 6) -- but of<br />
course there was no way of knowing how many individuals there were.<br />
One also seen before dark.<br />
<br />
<br />
From cimbaro at att.net Thu Aug 25 01:50:38 2011<br />
From: cimbaro at att.net (cimbaro at att.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:50:38 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper at Cabela's - East Hartford<br />
Message-ID: <1314251438.23297.YahooMailClassic@web180301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Baird's Sandpiper late this evening 8/24 at the pond behind Cabela's. Also<br />
the following:<br />
Killdeer<br />
Lesser Yellowlegs 2<br />
Spotted Sandpiper 1<br />
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1<br />
Least Sandpiper 3<br />
<br />
Dan Cimbaro<br />
Colchester<br />
<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net Thu Aug 25 12:58:28 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net (Carrier Graphics)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:58:28 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] In regards to hurricanes and sea birds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314291508.81051.YahooMailRC@web81804.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In regards to hurricanes and sea birds. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Many years ago, we sat under a motels' 2nd floor walkway after vacating our </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">campsite in Wellfleet Cape Cod and watched a hurricane pass through there verses </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">evacuating. The winds built, and we observed the following....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">While we observed several large trees and branches blow down, the most </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">interesting sightings were the birds. Most birds seemed to get through the high </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">winds by flying in them. Mostly gulls and terns, though some Swallows were seen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">as well. They all did very well using this tactic. And when the winds were </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">extremely strong, many gulls and terns were observed flapping into the head wind </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">while progressing backwards! It did not seem to matter, for they were safer in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">the air vs being on the ground for sure. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">After the storm's extremely high winds and rain passed through, we quickly </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">visited the shore cliffs at Trurro. here the winds were still strong, though the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">rains had passed. Many gulls and terns had landed on the beach below the cliff </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">getting out of the high west winds blowing from land, creating enormous white </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">caped waves off shore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> Of interest were the many land birds who it seemed were blown out to sea from </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">the hurricane, and were now attempting to reach land once again. Many were </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Swallows but I remember seeing with bins, some warbler type birds and Sparrows </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">trying to reach land, but not getting much help from the strong off land winds. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">To me it seemed, land birds were the ones getting the worst of it vs the sea </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">birds, who flew stronger into the high winds while land birds did not. After </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">spending an hour there, we saw not one land bird reach land, while sea birds </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">were enjoying the rest below, or flying along the beach as they usually do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Paul Carrier et al </span><br />
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From djc225lbt at att.net Thu Aug 25 13:05:44 2011<br />
From: djc225lbt at att.net (David Coutu)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:05:44 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper at Cabela's - East Hartford<br />
In-Reply-To: <1314251438.23297.YahooMailClassic@web180301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
References: <1314251438.23297.YahooMailClassic@web180301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
Message-ID: <1314291944.14628.YahooMailRC@web83705.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Baird's Sandpiper continues behind Cabellas.?? 11:00AM?? Allowed close<br />
approach.?? David Coutu<br />
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________________________________<br />
From: "cimbaro at att.net" <cimbaro at att.net><br />
To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
Sent: Thu, August 25, 2011 1:50:38 AM<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper at Cabela's - East Hartford<br />
<br />
Baird's Sandpiper late this evening 8/24 at the pond behind Cabela's.? Also<br />
the following:<br />
Killdeer<br />
Lesser Yellowlegs 2<br />
Spotted Sandpiper 1<br />
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1<br />
Least Sandpiper 3<br />
<br />
Dan Cimbaro<br />
Colchester<br />
<br />
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From pcianfaglione at hotmail.com Thu Aug 25 14:19:30 2011<br />
From: pcianfaglione at hotmail.com (paul cianfaglione)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:19:30 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Pond<br />
Message-ID: <BLU135-W21C6376E913E7799EB11B1BB100@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
8/25 East Hartford, Cabela's Pond - 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER...... plus 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER that has an injured right wing.<br />
<br />
Paul Cianfaglione<br />
Canton<br />
http://capitalcitybirding.blogspot.com/ <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
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From chbarnjr at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 15:32:17 2011<br />
From: chbarnjr at gmail.com (charles barnard jr)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:32:17 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Point this morning<br />
Message-ID: <CAEhpbrVtraSKYW+aTdjq=TQ1M0gLbZducqo4k1FYgHqWjQy0CA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
This morning between 8:30 and 10:30, at the high tide, I birded Milford<br />
Point (the LIS side) mostly with Nick Bonomo, but also Dennis Varza and<br />
Charles Hills for a little while. Here are my numbers of the more uncommon<br />
species, which may vary from those of Nick and others.: Black Tern (3),<br />
Forster's Tern (3), Black Skimmer (4), Red Knot (8), Stilt Sandpiper (1).<br />
<br />
More common species included about 450 Common Terns, 1 Least Tern, 35<br />
Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover (110), Semipalmated Plover<br />
(150), Sanderling (80), Semipalmated Sandpiper (400), Ruddy Turnstone (2),<br />
American Oystercatcher (2) and Lesser Yellowlegs (1) There were also 2<br />
Peregrine Falcons present.<br />
<br />
Nick was still birding when I left, so maybe he will expand this list<br />
later.<br />
<br />
From mardi1d at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 15:41:56 2011<br />
From: mardi1d at gmail.com (Mardi Dickinson)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:56 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival - CANCELLED<br />
Message-ID: <09AB2CED-54C7-405F-AB24-CA1297574AD0@gmail.com><br />
<br />
<br />
Birders et al,<br />
<br />
I wanted to pass this note along from Lloyd Spitalnik who sent this to the NYList. For those who may have been<br />
going from CT.<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
Mardi Dickinson<br />
Email: mardi1d at gmail.com<br />
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MardiWD<br />
Blog: http://kymry.wordpress.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
Hi Everyone,<br />
Because of extremely high water levels at Jamaica Bay and more rain coming we?ve decided to cancel the festival<br />
his Saturday the 27th. We all feel bad about it but we always want to give you the best experience. This year there<br />
were just too m any bstacles including 8? of rain in a 24 hour period and an impending hurricane on the way. Sorry<br />
if this ruins anybody?s plans. It was a difficult decision by all the organizers. See you there next year.<br />
Batten down the hatches and stay safe during the coming storm.<br />
<br />
All our best,<br />
Don Riepe<br />
Kevin Karlson<br />
NPS<br />
NYC Audubon<br />
Lloyd<br />
Lloyd Spitalnik Photography<br />
www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com<br />
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From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 16:02:14 2011<br />
From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:14 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Small patches of habitat<br />
Message-ID: <96C0BCD7-A45B-473B-9254-A225E6FA2F2B@gmail.com><br />
<br />
Yesterday while Paul Wolter and i were in the parking lot of Northwest Park in Windsor we found 2 Least sandpipers<br />
near a very small puddle of water. We thought how interesting that they discovered such a small amount of water.<br />
i know that shorebirds are known to migrate at high altitudes so if they saw this water from high up and just dropped<br />
down this is truly amazing how they spotted it!<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From robben99 at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 16:02:02 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:02 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Irene bird-reports aggregated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CANpJbq0ktMW-ZHQVeAwmw_aJ_2Tk6xcvobN8pQGw2-Z_ttBmzQ@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Encouraged by a few friends, we are starting a temporary web site for just</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">one week, to track the increasingly DANGEROUS hurricane Irene and all the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">related bird reports, from Florida up to maritime Canada. Not sure how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">useful this will be, but we will give it a try. Hopefully we will have lots</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">of "hurricane birds" and this site will provide one convenient centralized</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">picture of all those hurricane-bird-reports along this thousand miles of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">coastline, and nearby. If there aren't any hurricane birds, there wont be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">much to report. We will get our data by manually checking every one of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">twenty bird listserv sites along the East Coast, every day for one week, and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">add relevant references and links into our one site...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">More importantly, hopefully Irene will not hurt anyone. Be careful, this is</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">starting to look like a very dangerous storm, with forecast of a possible</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">deadly storm surge hitting the East Coast, including New England....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1899</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom Robben</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Glastonbury CT</span><br />
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From mhmoorep at aol.com Thu Aug 25 17:16:54 2011<br />
From: mhmoorep at aol.com (mhmoorep at aol.com)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:16:54 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] mini-habitats<br />
Message-ID: <8CE31837277A367-A6C-18125@webmail-d054.sysops.aol.com><br />
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<br />
I suspect many of have shared Paul's amazement at what can show up in mini-habitats. I was at the Wallingford Super Stop & Shop a few years ago after a heavy morning shower, and the busy parking lot held 70 or 80 peeps exploring the puddles.<br />
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<br />
Marty Moore<br />
Wallingford<br />
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From lpflynn at optonline.net Thu Aug 25 17:30:15 2011<br />
From: lpflynn at optonline.net (lpflynn at optonline.net)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:30:15 +0000 (GMT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cockenoe Island Westport<br />
Message-ID: <e55ab358b94f.4e56bee7@optonline.net><br />
<br />
For the past three years I have followed AMERICAN<br />
OYSTERCATCHERS staging this time of year on the Norwalk Islands, in all of those years Crow Island was the place for this gathering, with numbers as high a 63. Today there was only 1.<br />
This year the birds are not assembling on Crow Island but rather on<br />
Cockenoe Island, Tina Green has been spotting this group from the mainland shore for about a week. I checked each island today by boat to confirm that they in fact did move.<br />
Also on<br />
Cockenoe Island were 3 juv BLACK SKIMMERS, 1 FORSTER'S TERN along with 120 COMMON TERNS, mostly young still being fed by adults.<br />
Larry Flynn<br />
Norwalk Islands, Fairfield, US-CT<br />
Aug 25, 2011 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM<br />
Protocol: Traveling<br />
3.0 mile(s)<br />
Comments: 52<br />
amoy were on cockenoe<br />
16 species<br />
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Double-crested Cormorant 100<br />
Great Egret 5<br />
Snowy Egret 2<br />
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1<br />
Osprey 7<br />
Black-bellied Plover 6<br />
Semipalmated Plover 25<br />
American Oystercatcher 53 52 staging on cockenoe island, 1 on crow island<br />
Ruddy Turnstone 30<br />
Laughing Gull 40<br />
Herring Gull 60<br />
Great Black-backed Gull 40<br />
Least Tern 1<br />
Common Tern 120<br />
Forster's Tern 1<br />
Black Skimmer 3<br />
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This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)<br />
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From streatham2003 at aol.com Thu Aug 25 17:38:45 2011<br />
From: streatham2003 at aol.com (streatham2003 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:38:45 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sunrise Birding weekend walk moved to Saturday<br />
Message-ID: <8CE31868066E121-22F8-7EF5D@webmail-m028.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
<br />
Hi All,<br />
<br />
I just wanted to let people know that the Sunrise Birding walk for this Sunday has been moved to the Saturday. Last time a couple of people just showed up without booking, so although unlikely that anyone might try to do so this on this particular Sunday I thought I best just send out a warning in case. I guess if I were really hardcore I'd keep the walk on the Sunday - could be interesting ;)<br />
<br />
Just a quick view on the hurricane. Although at this current time safety rather than birds is a priority, I thought it worth mentioning that even if you don't live near the coast this kind of weather can still bring interesting birds. During one of the more recent tropical storms (which actually turned into something of a damp squib) I was rather thrilled to discover a couple of Semi-P Plovers at Allen's Meadows in Wilton for the patch list. Inland reservoirs and open spaces like ballfields can certainly turn up something relatively exciting. I'm sure people will post more on possibilities anon. Personally I'll be keeping my eyes open for something interesting over the hawkwatch on the Monday and hoping we keep power and don't lose too many trees.<br />
<br />
Luke Tiller, Greenwich<br />
www.underclearskies.com<br />
www.sunrisebirding.com<br />
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From mswanhall at earthlink.net Thu Aug 25 17:51:40 2011<br />
From: mswanhall at earthlink.net (Marty Swanhall)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:40 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Solitary Sandpiper<br />
Message-ID: <7AAF46956DAE41A29A619A1EA4C2C5D2@SwanhallPC><br />
<br />
Saw a solitary Sandpiper and Great Blue Heron in wetlands on South Pomperaug Road in Woodbury on my way home from work today.<br />
<br />
Marty in Woodbury<br />
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From givenrandy at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 19:47:17 2011<br />
From: givenrandy at gmail.com (Randy Given)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:47:17 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Peregrine Falcons at Riverside Park ?<br />
Message-ID: <CABzQ++UUwR7pZM04D-xEVh11nUgSv8Gf2CnWHZp0BQY1kWPLNg@mail.gmail.com><br />
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I've seen several postings about Peregrine Falcons at Riverside Park,<br />
but I haven't seen any myself. Granted, they're not that common. Were<br />
they seen there or were they seen flying over Hartford from there?<br />
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Randy Given<br />
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From louise40pt at yahoo.com Thu Aug 25 20:21:44 2011<br />
From: louise40pt at yahoo.com (louise tucker)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:21:44 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Peregrine Falcon on 190 bridge - Enfield<br />
Message-ID: <1314318104.66814.YahooMailClassic@web161315.mail.bf1.yahoo.com><br />
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>From Louise P. Tucker:<br />
August 25, 2011 - Enfield-Suffield -? A young Peregrine Falcon was sitting on a lamp post on the 190 Bridge connecting Enfield and Suffield. Approx. 7:00 pm onwards.<br />
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From ktjensen at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 20:30:16 2011<br />
From: ktjensen at gmail.com (Kevin Jensen)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:30:16 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] (no subject)<br />
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Luna barn owl. Lost? Has anyone read the<br />
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> 3. Cabela's Pond (paul cianfaglione)<br />
> 4. Milford Point this morning (charles barnard jr)<br />
> 5. Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival - CANCELLED (Mardi Dickinson)<br />
> 6. Small patches of habitat (Paul Desjardins)<br />
> 7. Hurricane Irene bird-reports aggregated (Thomas Robben)<br />
> 8. mini-habitats (mhmoorep at aol.com)<br />
> 9. Cockenoe Island Westport (lpflynn at optonline.net)<br />
> 10. Sunrise Birding weekend walk moved to Saturday<br />
> (streatham2003 at aol.com)<br />
> 11. Solitary Sandpiper (Marty Swanhall)<br />
> 12. Peregrine Falcons at Riverside Park ? (Randy Given)<br />
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> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:58:28 -0700 (PDT)<br />
> From: Carrier Graphics <carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net><br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] In regards to hurricanes and sea birds.<br />
> Message-ID: <1314291508.81051.YahooMailRC at web81804.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
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> In regards to hurricanes and sea birds.<br />
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> Many years ago, we sat under a motels' 2nd floor walkway after vacating our<br />
> campsite in Wellfleet Cape Cod and watched a hurricane pass through there verses<br />
> evacuating. The winds built, and we observed the following....<br />
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> While we observed several large trees and branches blow down, the most<br />
> interesting sightings were the birds. Most birds seemed to get through the high<br />
> winds by flying in them. Mostly gulls and terns, though some Swallows were seen<br />
> as well. They all did very well using this tactic. And when the winds were<br />
> extremely strong, many gulls and terns were observed flapping into the head wind<br />
> while progressing backwards! It did not seem to matter, for they were safer in<br />
> the air vs being on the ground for sure.<br />
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> After the storm's extremely high winds and rain passed through, we quickly<br />
> visited the shore cliffs at Trurro. here the winds were still strong, though the<br />
> rains had passed. Many gulls and terns had landed on the beach below the cliff<br />
> getting out of the high west winds blowing from land, creating enormous white<br />
> caped waves off shore.<br />
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> Of interest were the many land birds who it seemed were blown out to sea from<br />
> the hurricane, and were now attempting to reach land once again. Many were<br />
> Swallows but I remember seeing with bins, some warbler type birds and Sparrows<br />
> trying to reach land, but not getting much help from the strong off land winds.<br />
> To me it seemed, land birds were the ones getting the worst of it vs the sea<br />
> birds, who flew stronger into the high winds while land birds did not. After<br />
> spending an hour there, we saw not one land bird reach land, while sea birds<br />
> were enjoying the rest below, or flying along the beach as they usually do.<br />
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> Paul Carrier et al <br />
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> Message: 2<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:05:44 -0700 (PDT)<br />
> From: David Coutu <djc225lbt at att.net><br />
> To: cimbaro at att.net, ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper at Cabela's - East Hartford<br />
> Message-ID: <1314291944.14628.YahooMailRC at web83705.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
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> Baird's Sandpiper continues behind Cabellas.?? 11:00AM?? Allowed close<br />
> approach.?? David Coutu<br />
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> From: "cimbaro at att.net" <cimbaro at att.net><br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Sent: Thu, August 25, 2011 1:50:38 AM<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper at Cabela's - East Hartford<br />
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> Baird's Sandpiper late this evening 8/24 at the pond behind Cabela's.? Also<br />
> the following:<br />
> Killdeer<br />
> Lesser Yellowlegs 2<br />
> Spotted Sandpiper 1<br />
> Semipalmated Sandpiper 1<br />
> Least Sandpiper 3<br />
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> Dan Cimbaro<br />
> Colchester<br />
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> Message: 3<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:19:30 +0000<br />
> From: paul cianfaglione <pcianfaglione at hotmail.com><br />
> To: Ctbirds Ctbirdslists <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Pond<br />
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> 8/25 East Hartford, Cabela's Pond - 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER...... plus 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER that has an injured right wing.<br />
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> Paul Cianfaglione<br />
> Canton<br />
> http://capitalcitybirding.blogspot.com/ <br />
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> Message: 4<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:32:17 -0400<br />
> From: charles barnard jr <chbarnjr at gmail.com><br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Point this morning<br />
> Message-ID:<br />
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> This morning between 8:30 and 10:30, at the high tide, I birded Milford<br />
> Point (the LIS side) mostly with Nick Bonomo, but also Dennis Varza and<br />
> Charles Hills for a little while. Here are my numbers of the more uncommon<br />
> species, which may vary from those of Nick and others.: Black Tern (3),<br />
> Forster's Tern (3), Black Skimmer (4), Red Knot (8), Stilt Sandpiper (1).<br />
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> More common species included about 450 Common Terns, 1 Least Tern, 35<br />
> Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover (110), Semipalmated Plover<br />
> (150), Sanderling (80), Semipalmated Sandpiper (400), Ruddy Turnstone (2),<br />
> American Oystercatcher (2) and Lesser Yellowlegs (1) There were also 2<br />
> Peregrine Falcons present.<br />
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> Nick was still birding when I left, so maybe he will expand this list<br />
> later.<br />
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> Message: 5<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:56 -0400<br />
> From: Mardi Dickinson <mardi1d at gmail.com><br />
> To: CT Birds Birds List <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival - CANCELLED<br />
> Message-ID: <09AB2CED-54C7-405F-AB24-CA1297574AD0 at gmail.com><br />
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> Birders et al,<br />
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> I wanted to pass this note along from Lloyd Spitalnik who sent this to the NYList. For those who may have been<br />
> going from CT.<br />
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> Cheers,<br />
> Mardi Dickinson<br />
> Email: mardi1d at gmail.com<br />
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/MardiWD<br />
> Blog: http://kymry.wordpress.com/<br />
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><br />
> Hi Everyone,<br />
> Because of extremely high water levels at Jamaica Bay and more rain coming we?ve decided to cancel the festival<br />
> his Saturday the 27th. We all feel bad about it but we always want to give you the best experience. This year there<br />
> were just too m any bstacles including 8? of rain in a 24 hour period and an impending hurricane on the way. Sorry<br />
> if this ruins anybody?s plans. It was a difficult decision by all the organizers. See you there next year.<br />
> Batten down the hatches and stay safe during the coming storm.<br />
><br />
> All our best,<br />
> Don Riepe<br />
> Kevin Karlson<br />
> NPS<br />
> NYC Audubon<br />
> Lloyd<br />
> Lloyd Spitalnik Photography<br />
> www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com<br />
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> Message: 6<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:14 -0400<br />
> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com><br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Small patches of habitat<br />
> Message-ID: <96C0BCD7-A45B-473B-9254-A225E6FA2F2B at gmail.com><br />
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> Yesterday while Paul Wolter and i were in the parking lot of Northwest Park in Windsor we found 2 Least sandpipers<br />
> near a very small puddle of water. We thought how interesting that they discovered such a small amount of water.<br />
> i know that shorebirds are known to migrate at high altitudes so if they saw this water from high up and just dropped<br />
> down this is truly amazing how they spotted it!<br />
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> Message: 7<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:02 -0400<br />
> From: Thomas Robben <robben99 at gmail.com><br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Cc: "P.A. BUCKLEY" <pab387 at cox.net><br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Irene bird-reports aggregated<br />
> Message-ID:<br />
> <CANpJbq0ktMW-ZHQVeAwmw_aJ_2Tk6xcvobN8pQGw2-Z_ttBmzQ at mail.gmail.com><br />
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> Encouraged by a few friends, we are starting a temporary web site for just<br />
> one week, to track the increasingly DANGEROUS hurricane Irene and all the<br />
> related bird reports, from Florida up to maritime Canada. Not sure how<br />
> useful this will be, but we will give it a try. Hopefully we will have lots<br />
> of "hurricane birds" and this site will provide one convenient centralized<br />
> picture of all those hurricane-bird-reports along this thousand miles of<br />
> coastline, and nearby. If there aren't any hurricane birds, there wont be<br />
> much to report. We will get our data by manually checking every one of the<br />
> twenty bird listserv sites along the East Coast, every day for one week, and<br />
> add relevant references and links into our one site...<br />
> http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/<br />
><br />
> More importantly, hopefully Irene will not hurt anyone. Be careful, this is<br />
> starting to look like a very dangerous storm, with forecast of a possible<br />
> deadly storm surge hitting the East Coast, including New England....<br />
> http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1899<br />
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> Tom Robben<br />
> Glastonbury CT<br />
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> Message: 8<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:16:54 -0400 (EDT)<br />
> From: mhmoorep at aol.com<br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] mini-habitats<br />
> Message-ID: <8CE31837277A367-A6C-18125 at webmail-d054.sysops.aol.com><br />
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> I suspect many of have shared Paul's amazement at what can show up in mini-habitats. I was at the Wallingford Super Stop & Shop a few years ago after a heavy morning shower, and the busy parking lot held 70 or 80 peeps exploring the puddles.<br />
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> Marty Moore<br />
> Wallingford<br />
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> Message: 9<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:30:15 +0000 (GMT)<br />
> From: lpflynn at optonline.net<br />
> To: "ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Cockenoe Island Westport<br />
> Message-ID: <e55ab358b94f.4e56bee7 at optonline.net><br />
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> For the past three years I have followed AMERICAN<br />
> OYSTERCATCHERS staging this time of year on the Norwalk Islands, in all of those years Crow Island was the place for this gathering, with numbers as high a 63. Today there was only 1.<br />
> This year the birds are not assembling on Crow Island but rather on<br />
> Cockenoe Island, Tina Green has been spotting this group from the mainland shore for about a week. I checked each island today by boat to confirm that they in fact did move.<br />
> Also on<br />
> Cockenoe Island were 3 juv BLACK SKIMMERS, 1 FORSTER'S TERN along with 120 COMMON TERNS, mostly young still being fed by adults.<br />
> Larry Flynn<br />
> Norwalk Islands, Fairfield, US-CT<br />
> Aug 25, 2011 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM<br />
> Protocol: Traveling<br />
> 3.0 mile(s)<br />
> Comments: 52<br />
> amoy were on cockenoe<br />
> 16 species<br />
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> Double-crested Cormorant 100<br />
> Great Egret 5<br />
> Snowy Egret 2<br />
> Black-crowned Night-Heron 1<br />
> Osprey 7<br />
> Black-bellied Plover 6<br />
> Semipalmated Plover 25<br />
> American Oystercatcher 53 52 staging on cockenoe island, 1 on crow island<br />
> Ruddy Turnstone 30<br />
> Laughing Gull 40<br />
> Herring Gull 60<br />
> Great Black-backed Gull 40<br />
> Least Tern 1<br />
> Common Tern 120<br />
> Forster's Tern 1<br />
> Black Skimmer 3<br />
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> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)<br />
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> Message: 10<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:38:45 -0400 (EDT)<br />
> From: streatham2003 at aol.com<br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Sunrise Birding weekend walk moved to Saturday<br />
> Message-ID: <8CE31868066E121-22F8-7EF5D at webmail-m028.sysops.aol.com><br />
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> Hi All,<br />
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> I just wanted to let people know that the Sunrise Birding walk for this Sunday has been moved to the Saturday. Last time a couple of people just showed up without booking, so although unlikely that anyone might try to do so this on this particular Sunday I thought I best just send out a warning in case. I guess if I were really hardcore I'd keep the walk on the Sunday - could be interesting ;)<br />
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> Just a quick view on the hurricane. Although at this current time safety rather than birds is a priority, I thought it worth mentioning that even if you don't live near the coast this kind of weather can still bring interesting birds. During one of the more recent tropical storms (which actually turned into something of a damp squib) I was rather thrilled to discover a couple of Semi-P Plovers at Allen's Meadows in Wilton for the patch list. Inland reservoirs and open spaces like ballfields can certainly turn up something relatively exciting. I'm sure people will post more on possibilities anon. Personally I'll be keeping my eyes open for something interesting over the hawkwatch on the Monday and hoping we keep power and don't lose too many trees.<br />
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> Luke Tiller, Greenwich<br />
> www.underclearskies.com<br />
> www.sunrisebirding.com<br />
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> Message: 11<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:40 -0400<br />
> From: "Marty Swanhall" <mswanhall at earthlink.net><br />
> To: <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Solitary Sandpiper<br />
> Message-ID: <7AAF46956DAE41A29A619A1EA4C2C5D2 at SwanhallPC><br />
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> Saw a solitary Sandpiper and Great Blue Heron in wetlands on South Pomperaug Road in Woodbury on my way home from work today.<br />
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> Marty in Woodbury<br />
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> Message: 12<br />
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:47:17 -0400<br />
> From: Randy Given <givenrandy at gmail.com><br />
> To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> Subject: [CT Birds] Peregrine Falcons at Riverside Park ?<br />
> Message-ID:<br />
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> I've seen several postings about Peregrine Falcons at Riverside Park,<br />
> but I haven't seen any myself. Granted, they're not that common. Were<br />
> they seen there or were they seen flying over Hartford from there?<br />
><br />
> Randy Given<br />
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From ktjensen at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 20:33:05 2011<br />
From: ktjensen at gmail.com (Kevin Jensen)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:33:05 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Luna Barn Owl - rehab lost bird?<br />
Message-ID: <BF1304AC-7BC0-4445-81B3-781AAD4148D8@gmail.com><br />
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Has anyone seen the Connecticut Facebook story about a lost barn owl? Supposedly imprinted and friendly to humans. Not likely to handle the wild. From canton area? Canton Raptor Care. Just putting the word out.<br />
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Sent from my Verizon iPhone 4<br />
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From rmharvey at snet.net Thu Aug 25 21:23:47 2011<br />
From: rmharvey at snet.net (Roy Harvey)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:23:47 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Luna Barn Owl - rehab lost bird?<br />
In-Reply-To: <BF1304AC-7BC0-4445-81B3-781AAD4148D8@gmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <1314321827.84025.YahooMailClassic@web81503.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
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> Has anyone seen the Connecticut<br />
> Facebook story about a lost barn owl?? Supposedly<br />
> imprinted and friendly to humans. Not likely to handle the<br />
> wild. From canton area? Canton Raptor Care. Just putting the<br />
> word out.<br />
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Patrick Comins posted a message about it on 7 August, but there is nothing wrong with another reminder.<br />
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http://lists.ctbirding.org/pipermail/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org/Week-of-Mon-20110801/027403.html<br />
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Roy Harvey<br />
Beacon Falls, CT<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Thu Aug 25 22:12:04 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:12:04 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Fwd: Hurricane Birding tips</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314324724.97707.YahooMailRC@web80010.mail.sp1.yahoo.com></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi all,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Here's some comments and birding tips, as well as safety reminders from VA </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">birder Ned Brinkley, copied from the Va birding list-serve, via birdingonthe.net </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> (Ned is also the editor of ABA's excellent publication, North American </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Birds). Much of the info is also applicable to other eastern states, including </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">CT. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Frank Mantlik</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Stratford</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: Hurricane Irene</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: Ned Brinkley <23cahow AT gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:22:04 -0400</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi all, With a hurricane approaching, there has been much internet discussion </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">of bird displacement and safety issues. I thought I'd put in my usual two </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">cents, based on past experiences with storms that made landfall in, or near, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Virginia. The coming storm is forecast to do a great deal of damage to eastern </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">North Carolina, and it's very likely that southeastern Virginia will experience </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">high winds and widespread flooding over the weekend. Safety is the highest </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">priority in birding after the passage of hurricanes, and no one should venture </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">out until authorities declare it is safe to do so. Fallen power lines, flooded </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">roads, falling trees are all hazards, and tornadoes can still pop up after the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">storm's center has passed. That said, we stand to learn a great deal about the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">effects of such storms on birds and their populations by being recording the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">birds after such events. Here are some possibilities for birding strategies </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">after a storm's passage (and after an area is safe): 1) Inland lakes and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">reservoirs, especially large ones, harbor seabirds and shorebirds displaced by </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">storms; Virginia has records of frigatebirds, all three jaegers, three gadfly </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">petrels, four shearwaters, two storm-petrels, two tropical terns, almost all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">other terns, Sabine's Gull, and two-dozen shorebird species from such settings. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">And that is only from a handful of recorded hurricanes, notably Fran of 1996 and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Isabel of 2003. Irene's forecast track is to the east of these storms', but many </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">things can happen between now and Saturday. Even if the storm does pass off the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">coast of Virginia as forecast now, such spots are still worth checking. 2) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">River mouths and peninsulas near them can be very productive for seawatching; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">there are many interesting records of seabirds seen from such locations, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">including White-faced Storm-Petrel in Virginia. 3) Dredge-spoil areas such as </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Craney Island can be the site of "storm" roosts, large assemblages of terns, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">shorebirds, gulls, and skimmers, with all birds resting quietly, bills pointing </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">into the wind. Bridled and Sooty Terns frequently sit with them. 4) Farm </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">fields, especially harvested ones (harvested potato fields are optimal), can </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">also be the site of storm roosts, but when wet or flooded, shorebirds are also </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">found in numbers feeding in the muddy areas (or drier areas in the case of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">golden-plovers, Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Baird's Sandpipers, etc.). Even areas </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">that have relatively little rain and wind can sometimes produce a surprise or </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">two. 5) Open beaches. Although storms that pass east of our coastlines do not </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">tend to produce large numbers of sightings of seabirds, they sometimes do </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">produce large numbers of seabirds on beaches, some of them in weakened </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">condition, some of them dead. Photographs of such birds are very valuable. All </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">such specimens have even more value to science, so they should be salvaged and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">preserved (donated to museums). Walking miles of beaches can produce dozens of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">interesting birds. We still know very little about which taxa of Cory's </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Shearwater and Band-rumped Storm-Petrel visit our waters, for instance, so every </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">specimen can provide another piece of the puzzle. Yesterday, I photographed an </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">adult Masked Booby off northeastern North Carolina, just a few miles from </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Virginia waters. Our state has no report of this species, but it seems likely </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">that Irene could displace such a bird a few miles northward. Brown Boobies have </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">been noted in recent weeks from Cape May, NJ, to Maine, so that is another bird </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">to look for after the storm. 6) Almost anywhere. Records of odd things like </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Cave Swallows have popped up in odd places after recent hurricane landfalls, so </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">looking at every bird carefully, no matter where you are, seems prudent. In </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">theory, birds migrating at this time of year could be not just displaced by the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">storm but also "put down" by the storm, that is, stop migration and seek shelter </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">in the nearest area. Because landfall of the storm may occur in darkness, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">"grounded" migrants of many sorts should be looked for across a large area of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">the American East from Sunday through Tuesday. The Virginia Avian Records </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Committee would be very grateful to receive reports of any storm-blown seabirds. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Ideally, reports of these birds should be accompanied by photographs of the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">birds, for verification. Because birding after a storm can be challenging, and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">because many seabirds are difficult to identify even by very experienced </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">seabirders, there is no shame in recording a bird as "phalarope sp.,", "jaeger </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">sp.", "storm-petrel sp.", or even "large tubenose" or "shorebird sp.". It can </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">be tempting to put a name on a bird seen poorly, but it's best to be </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">conservative. Let's hope that we avoid extensive damage in Virginia, of course, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">and that the storm douses the terrible Dismal Swamp fire (smoke is terrible this </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">morning) and moves on out to sea. Ned Brinkley Cape Charles, Va. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 22:50:07 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:50:07 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Birding Hurricane Irene (long)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <B16D625C-B092-45D7-B9C1-3829230A1F13@gmail.com></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Before I go into detail about birding this storm, a little perspective about these things. Hurricanes are serious storms, so I am told. In my adult life I?ve never sat through anything more than a tropical depression. For us here in southern New England, Hurricanes Bob (1991) and Gloria (1985) are probably distant memories for most people. I vaguely recall sitting on our enclosed porch in Bridgeport as a child, waiting out the wind and rain of Bob. We?ve seen via the media that poor preparation coupled with bad luck can cause disaster, so let?s all be as safe and smart as possible.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Switching gears to the birds, many displaced seabirds do presumably perish, especially those found on lakes hundreds of miles inland. Also, many migrant passerines and shorebirds are negatively affected by these systems. It is very unfortunate, but it is nature at work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">But as birders, we can?t help but let our attention shift partially to the silver-lining of tropical cyclones. Here are some quotes from folks who have summed up the situation quite well in recent years:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">??but then I reminded myself that no one has control over the weather, and that birders are simply taking meteorological lemons and making lemonade.? ? Scott Weidensaul</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">??there is no more radical or rapid change in bird status and distribution than during and after a tropical cyclone that makes landfall. We regularly scramble to locate birds after most other meteorological phenomena, whether warm front, cold front, fogbank, or snowstorm, so surely we would not ignore tropical weather systems, despite their awful costs. We are students of the here and now, after all.? ? Edward S. Brinkley</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Now, onto that silver lining.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">If Hurricane Irene does indeed make landfall at or near Connecticut, this would be the first such local event of the internet, cell phone, and digital camera eras. Bob and Gloria passed through (or near) before we were all connected via smartphones, before the days of posting to listservs from the field, or even making phone calls from the field. Rarities could not be documented with photographs with ease like they are today. And I believe that back then, only 20-30 years ago, birders were not fully aware of the best storm-birding strategies. Those who have been birding locally for decades will probably attest to this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">After barreling through the heart of the Bahamas, Hurricane Irene will emerge into Gulf Stream waters. From here she is forecast to move NNE, possibly making landfill in eastern North Carolina before moving up the coast. The storm could hit west of us, east of us, or pass right overhead. With so much uncertainty left in the track, it is impossible to try to predict the best areas to go birding during (if safe enough) and after the storm.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">The storm?s sheer size and track (originating in the Cape Verde region, organizing just east of the Caribbean, skirting the northeast Caribbean islands, then through the Bahamas and the Gulf Stream) certainly gives us potential for a variety of seabirds, shorebirds, and terns we would otherwise have little or no chance of seeing in Long Island Sound or inland. The track hasn?t gone over much deep ocean, with most of the recent track being over waters on the Continental Shelf, which may hurt us bird-wise. However this is a large storm, and its ?right? side will have spent some time off the edge of the shelf.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">It would appear, from reading accounts of recent storm passages, that there are no guarantees with these things. But, generally speaking, the ?birdiest? quadrant is usually the ?right-front? quadrant, which not surprisingly is also usually the strongest part of the storm. So, if the storm was heading due north, the northeastern quadrant would be the ?right-front? quadrant. In general, the birdiest scenario would occur if the storm passes directly over us or just to our west (which would put us on the east side of the storm and give us some of that right-front quadrant). The sample size isn?t large enough to tell us exactly how significant this is, but one could argue that for greatest birdlife we would rather it hit 150 miles to our west than just 50 miles to our east, accepting more time over land for weaking in order for us to be on the east side of it. FYI those mileages are arbitrary numbers, just thrown in there to make a point.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Birders will no doubt be scattered throughout the state, probably both Sunday during the storm and early Monday after its passage. The key for us will be to KEEP IN TOUCH. Bring your cell phones (for safety if for nothing else). If you find a rarity or something you think might be rare, call someone on your typical rare bird phone tree to get word out. If you have a smartphone, post to CTBirds along with making phone calls. Storm-blown waifs sometimes do linger for hours on inland bodies of water. Coastal flybys are less likely to linger, but it is still worth getting word out with a direction of the bird?s flight. Remember the American White Pelicans from a couple autumns ago? We tracked those birds over dozens of miles in one day?s flight. A jaeger moving east from Stamford could very well pass Stratford Point later on, so a heads-up is always a good idea.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Also, if you can, take a photo. Distant seabirds can be very difficult to identify, especially if you?re not an experienced seabirder or if viewing conditions are poor. Snapping off a few photos for later analysis could be the difference between certain identification and frustration. Also, the ARCC would love as much documentation as possible for the official record. With a concentrated effort, we have the opportunity to add to the growing data regarding tropical cyclones and their redistribution of entrained birds. We have much to learn.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">We will be faced with the decision of whether to hit the coast or check larger inland bodies of water. Which bodies? Rivers or lakes? If the coast, east or west? Point of land or river mouth? It really is a crapshoot in the end, though the exact storm track will help us. As the track becomes more certain, we?ll know more about important things such as duration, intensity, and direction of the winds including approximate times the winds will shift direction.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">What birds can we expect? Again, there are no guarantees, but if landfall occurs in CT, some species are more likely than others.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">The tropical terns first come to mind, Sooty and Bridled. Most storms record greater numbers of Sooty Tern than Bridled, though this isn?t always the case. Other terns, such as Royal, Sandwich, and Gull-billed are possible. Good numbers of Black Tern are likely, and Black Skimmer numbers may increase as well. Really any tern that occurs in our region is possible, whether truly moved by the storm or just knocked down by the inclement weather locally, including Roseate and Caspian too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tubenoses, always rare in CT waters except for maybe Wilson?s Storm-Petrel, may be represented by any of the following: Black-capped Petrel or rarer Pterodromas are possible, any of five shearwater species, and we?ll say 4 species of storm-petrel (I?ll include White-faced because CT?s 1976 record of this species came thanks to Hurricane Belle. It occurred at the mouth of the Housatonic River, exactly where the center of circulation made landfall).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">If you?re exceedingly lucky, a tropicbird or frigatebird isn?t out of the question. And while boobies are usually not associated with these storms, the recent presence of three Brown Boobies between New Jersey and Maine raise this possibility.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">More likely are jaegers?any of the three species are possible with Parasitic being the most likely by a wide margin. Normally I would say Pomarine is next in line, but given that we?re in the heart of Long-tailed migration and early for most migrant Poms, Long-tailed may be our second most likely jaeger. Either skua, while highly unlikely, is still possible.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">As for gulls, we?re pretty much guaranteed (there, I said it!) an uptick in Laughing Gull numbers. More exciting would be a Sabine?s Gull, which, since they migrate overland in very small numbers, might be just as likely to be knocked down as genuinely displaced (This also goes for jaegers, phalaropes, and some terns.).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Then there?s the shorebirds. Good ol? reliable shorebirds. If this storm largely misses us and only provides a breezy rain, we?ll still have more shorebirds downed by the weather. More of the common species, plus increased chances of Hudsonian Godwits, American Golden-Plovers, and Red & Red-necked Phalaropes (Red-necked more likely than Red).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">And we may as well think outside the box. How about a rare swift, swallow, or martin from the Caribbean? Doug Gochfeld mentioned White-cheeked Pintail to me the other day?and why not? Keep an open mind, and try to document anything strange.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Any of these are possible, but even a direct hit would likely deliver only some of them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">As of right now, the timeline seems to indicate worsening conditions throughout Sunday with the worst weather during Sunday PM. There appears a decent chance that the nasty weather continues after dark on Sunday. If this is the case, Monday morning AFTER the storm may well yield the best birding. Birds dropped in CT during the storm and overnight will likely try to reorient toward the ocean, meaning they could be seen leaving LI Sound or exiting the major rivers. They could also awake to find only inland lakes or flooded parking lots below them. Which inland bodies of water? Again, if there?s landfall in CT, follow the track of the eye. If not, try to head wherever that right-front quadrant passed through. Alternatively, if the eye passes east of CT, I?d think that getting as far east as possible would be the way to go.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Well, now that I?ve gone through all that, I guess it pretty much means the storm will be a miss. You?re welcome :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Be safe,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Armistead, G. L & Sullivan B. L. 2004. Birding Hurricane Isabel. Birding 36: 6, pages 616-624.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Brinkley, E. S. 2011. The Changing Seasons: Bedfellows. North American Birds 65: 1, pages 17-20.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Zeranski, J. D. & Baptist T. R. 1990. Connecticut Birds, page 41.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick Bonomo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wallingford, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">www.shorebirder.com</span><br />
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From nbonomo at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 23:57:26 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:57:26 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Point this morning<br />
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Not much to add to Charlie's report, except that the RED KNOT count<br />
got up to an impressive 13 birds (one adult, the rest juvs...none<br />
flagged), and a single juv PECTORAL SANDPIPER dropped in for a few<br />
minutes.<br />
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Nick Bonomo<br />
Wallingford, CT<br />
www.shorebirder.com<br />
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, charles barnard jr <chbarnjr at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
> This morning between 8:30 and 10:30, at the high tide, I birded Milford<br />
> Point (the LIS side) mostly with Nick Bonomo, but also Dennis Varza and<br />
> Charles Hills for a little while. ? Here are my numbers of the more uncommon<br />
> species, which may vary from those of Nick and others.: Black Tern (3),<br />
> Forster's Tern (3), Black Skimmer (4), ?Red Knot (8), Stilt Sandpiper (1).<br />
><br />
> ?More common species included about ?450 Common Terns, 1 Least Tern, 35<br />
> Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover (110), ?Semipalmated Plover<br />
> (150), Sanderling (80), Semipalmated Sandpiper (400), Ruddy Turnstone (2),<br />
> American Oystercatcher (2) and Lesser Yellowlegs (1) There were also 2<br />
> Peregrine Falcons present.<br />
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> ?Nick was still birding when I left, so maybe he will expand this list<br />
> later.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From davewb07 at sbcglobal.net Fri Aug 26 06:41:13 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: davewb07 at sbcglobal.net (John D Babington)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:41:13 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurrican Irene,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">not good for bird migrants but good for common sense birding</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314355273.35042.YahooMailNeo@web81108.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I feel very sorry for all the bird migrants who will likely run into big problems with Hurricane Irene. I know Hurricane Irene will blow into Connecticut some very interesting birds but hopefully Connecticut birders will use common sense and NOT go birding on Sunday. As I recall a day after a hurricane hit Cape May in New Jersey the birding was amazing. Assuming one can get out safely on Monday to Connecticut's birding "hot spots" the birding should be amazing,? migrating birds blown back to Connecticut by the hurricane and sea birds blown into Connecticut by the hurricane.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">David W Babington</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Washington, CT</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From dennisvz at optonline.net Fri Aug 26 07:39:45 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: dennisvz at optonline.net (Dennis Varza)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:39:45 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Birding the Hurricane</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <7D7B8A76-E434-4419-B120-212111365FE9@optonline.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Hi Folks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Considering my past experiences with hurricanes and past records. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">here are some thoughts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">There are two types of birds the seabirds (shearwaters, petrels, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Tropicbirds etc.) and Coast-birds (Caspian Tern, Royal Tern, Skimmers </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Etc.).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">The coast-birds increase in number and tend to hang around a few </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">days. The seabirds, tend to leave quickly and one needs to be looking </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">as soon as possibles. This conflicts with safety policy. You can </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">expect most favored areas for birding to be closed either due to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">flooding or fear of people going into the water. It will be a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">challenge to find good viewing. An example in Bridgeport, I would bet </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Seaside Park to be closed, but St. Mary' s has a chance of being open.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">There are many inland records of shearwaters and petrels, if not </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">exhausted and in someone's backyard, they will be found on lakes and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">the larger rivers. People who do not live closet to shore should be </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">checking these out. If I was in the Hartford area I would try to get </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">a view of the Connecticut River and see what flies by. Middletown </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">would be another good area. I would check out any large lake and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">reservoir. Think about lakes that have a history of loons, grebes and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">scoters using them.</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Again time is of the essence, once they get their </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">bearing they are out of here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Dennis Varza</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Fairfield</span><br />
<br />
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From pcianfaglione at hotmail.com Fri Aug 26 07:49:35 2011<br />
From: pcianfaglione at hotmail.com (paul cianfaglione)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:49:35 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Pond<br />
Message-ID: <BLU135-W27B5A3AB9A398A5314B42DBB130@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
8/26 East Hartford, Cabela's Pond - 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER continues @ 7:20 am. Only stayed fifteen minutes, more sandpipers still coming in as I left.<br />
<br />
Paul Cianfaglione<br />
Canton <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
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From petermgreen at hotmail.com Fri Aug 26 10:14:25 2011<br />
From: petermgreen at hotmail.com (Tina and Peter Green)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:14:25 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Westport WW Scoter<br />
Message-ID: <BLU145-W18BCAE84CA8E7CCC807DF2AF130@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
8/26/11 - Westport - Compo Beach - The White-winged Scoter continues on the Soundview Avenue section of Compo Beach,yesterday afternoon sitting on shore and this morning just offshore.<br />
<br />
Tina Green<br />
Westport<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
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From LPBAUSHER at COMCAST.NET Fri Aug 26 10:46:13 2011<br />
From: LPBAUSHER at COMCAST.NET (Larry Bausher)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:46:13 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] New Haven Bird Club September Schedule<br />
Message-ID: <E0297CAD-DBD1-415E-AC97-C4F43E36DCA1@COMCAST.NET><br />
<br />
Folks,<br />
<br />
After the avian fallout from Irene dissipates, be sure to check out <br />
the New Haven Bird Club's schedule of activities for September:<br />
<br />
Indoor Meeting:<br />
<br />
Thursday, September 8 ? Sam Fried, Warblers and Vireos of Eastern <br />
North America. Free and open to the public. The Jones Auditorium of <br />
the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington St., <br />
New Haven, CT. Social half-hour at 7:00, program begins at 7:30. For <br />
more information: www.newhavenbirdclub.org or call 203 230-1697. Now <br />
that ?warbler necks? are healed, let?s take a closer?and easier?look <br />
at the roughly 38 species of eastern wood warblers and 7 species of <br />
vireos that had us all bent over backwards in awe last spring. <br />
Tonight we?ll explore these birds? life histories, migration routes, <br />
wintering grounds, and breeding locations throughout the western <br />
hemisphere. With a wonderful array of color photos, Sam?s <br />
presentation will provide a fun, fascinating, and ?gentle-on-the-<br />
neck? revisit with these true gems of the bird kingdom. Sam is an <br />
avid and longtime birder, a past president of Hartford Audubon, and <br />
the founder of Flights of Fancy Adventures, a birding, photography, <br />
natural history, and golf travel company. In his travels Sam has <br />
amassed a vast collection of great photos, many featured in the more <br />
than 50 articles he has authored for field guides, books, newspapers, <br />
and magazines worldwide. And along with running Flights of Fancy <br />
trips to North, Central, and South American birding destinations, the <br />
ever-inquisitive Sam now is a golf and fishing writer too.<br />
<br />
Field Trips:<br />
<br />
Daily Hawk Watch at Lighthouse Point. September 1 to November 30. <br />
Lighthouse Point on New Haven Harbor is one of the premier locations <br />
in southern New England for watching migrating eagles, hawks and <br />
falcons as well as good numbers of songbirds. The watch starts at 7 <br />
AM daily and continues as long as the hawks keep flying. Stop by <br />
anytime. Coordinator: Steve Mayo, 203-393-0694 or smayo at sikorsky.com.<br />
<br />
First Wednesday Walk : Sandy Point, West Haven. Wednesday, Sept. 7, <br />
8:00 AM. Free and open to the public. Join us as we look for <br />
shorebirds and terns at this excellent local birding location. Black <br />
Skimmers, Roseate Terns, and a variety of shorebirds are possible, <br />
including Golden Plover. Meet at the parking lot opposite the former <br />
Captain?s Galley Restaurant on Beach Street. Wear footwear that you <br />
won?t mind getting wet as the walk may involve wading in shallow <br />
water. Leader: John Oshlick. Contact person: Tina Green: 203 <br />
247-2660 or tina at renaissancestudios.com.<br />
<br />
Lighthouse Point Bird Walk and Prep for Migration Festival. <br />
Saturday, Sept. 17, 8:00 AM. Free and open to the public. Park <br />
Ranger Dan Barvir and Arne Rosengren will lead the bird walk. Meet at <br />
the Hawk Watch parking lot at Lighthouse Point on New Haven Harbor. <br />
Then at about 9:30 AM, we will perform some light trail maintenance <br />
and cleanup. This is a great way to enjoy looking at birds and help <br />
preserve their habitat. Leaders?Dan Barvir: 203.946.6086 and Arne <br />
Rosengren: 203.248.2903<br />
<br />
Ninth Annual Migration Festival at Lighthouse Point Park. Sunday, <br />
September 25, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. This festive event is sponsored by <br />
the New Haven Parks Dept., the New Haven Bird Club, and other fine <br />
organizations. In addition to hawk watching, there will be bird <br />
banding demonstrations, a live raptor demonstration, bird walks, and <br />
other activities. Organizer?Park Ranger Dan Barvir: 203.946.6086. <br />
NHBC contact-Maria Stockmal: 203.488.3876, m.stockmal at snet.net, or <br />
visit www.newhavenbirdclub.org.<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Larry Bausher, West Haven<br />
NHBC Publicity Director<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From charsjs at sbcglobal.net Fri Aug 26 13:47:21 2011<br />
From: charsjs at sbcglobal.net (Stephen Spector)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:47:21 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Seaside Sparrow<br />
Message-ID: <1314380841.87336.YahooMailRC@web180011.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
>From Steve & Charla Spector:<br />
8/26/11 -- Milford Pt -- in the Spatina next to the Piping Plover spit, a<br />
juvenile Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus).? For a record shot,<br />
www.stevesbirds.blogspot.com<br />
?charsjs at sbcglobal.net<br />
<br />
F<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">rom robben99 at gmail.com Fri Aug 26 15:13:48 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:13:48 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] No "hurricane bird" reports yet, as of 3pm 8/26</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CANpJbq2yEH+wHqJRPW9WsA80ySbz-ddyz-fBWbPjYvYNy1Hb7g@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">As expected, no "hurricane Irene birds" have been reported yet anywhere from</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Florida north along the East Coast. Maybe saturday, sunday or monday. And</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">please remember to put safety first, ahead of everything else.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom Robben, Glastonbury CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/</span><br />
<br />
From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Fri Aug 26 15:34:14 2011<br />
From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:34:14 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Point<br />
Message-ID: <5C2B86C8-BF4E-4DBC-8322-2DF3381FCE1A@gmail.com><br />
<br />
This afternoon among the numerous Common Terns one Black Tern.<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From kevin.burgio at gmail.com Fri Aug 26 16:03:46 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: kevin.burgio at gmail.com (Kevin Burgio)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:03:46 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] UConn Collections and Hurricane Irene</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CACO8dcz7Xn-kh_GKDhbZuocDKPBXux23JEW=mCjiATWP8FTD1Q@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">All,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">A message from us up at the UConn Ornithology Lab:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">As you bird the state after Hurricane Irene, you may encounter wounded,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">dying or dead birds. A reminder: state and federal laws regulate who can</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">"possess" wild birds, bird bodies, or body parts (including feathers).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Injured birds should be handled by licensed rehabilitators. Under the terms</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">of the salvage permit held by the Ornithological Research Collections</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">manager at the University of Connecticut, you MAY pick up dead birds for</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">transfer to the Collection, and we are seeking any specimens that you may</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">encounter. The Ornithological Research Collections at the University of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Connecticut is a library of birds that have occurred in the state; the study</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">skin collection dates from 1875, and holds more Connecticut specimens than</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">any other in the world. The ongoing record is being built ONLY with salvaged</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">specimens --- dead birds picked up and preserved. You can contribute to the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">historical record by securing any dead bird you encounter in a plastic bag,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">sealed shut with as little air in it as possible. Note the DATE, LOCATION,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">SPECIES (if you know it), and YOUR NAME AND CONTACT information, either on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">the bag, or double bag the bird with notes between inner and outer bag.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">FREEZE THE SPECIMEN as soon as possible and contact either</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">margaret.rubega at uconn.edu or susan.hochgraf at uconn.edu for transfer/pickup.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Good birding, and be careful out there!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Best,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">___________________________________</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Kevin Burgio</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Ph.D. Student</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">University of Connecticut</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">U-3043 75 No. Eagleville Road</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Storrs, CT 06269-3043</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">kevin.burgio at uconn.edu</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">(860) 486-3839</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/burgio</span><br />
<br />
From northernrail at comcast.net Fri Aug 26 16:52:53 2011<br />
From: northernrail at comcast.net (John Ogren)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:52:53 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] WW Scoter<br />
Message-ID: <1314391973.47471.YahooMailNeo@web80407.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Tina,<br />
?? Does the WW Scoter show any signs of a damaged lower bill? I had one in Old Saybrook that hung around into late May/June. It appeared that his lower bill was split and about 2/3's of it was just hanging. I tried to capture it with the assistance of a rehabber, but the bird was able to elude us. I monitered it for several weeks. ?It was managing to catch and eat green crabs and other crustaceans in our marsh.<br />
? Interesting enough Jerry Connolly spotted a Scoter off of Hammo about a week or two after my bird had left.<br />
John Ogren<br />
<br />
From streatham2003 at aol.com Fri Aug 26 16:53:49 2011<br />
From: streatham2003 at aol.com (streatham2003 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:53:49 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Common Nighhawks - Audubon Greenwich<br />
Message-ID: <8CE324963A8D536-79C-7A6F@webmail-m079.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
<br />
Hi All,<br />
<br />
There are currently 150-200 Common Nighthawks actively feeding over the Audubon Center in Greenwich - pretty cool stuff.<br />
<br />
Luke Tiller, Greenwich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From mswanhall at earthlink.net Fri Aug 26 17:32:09 2011<br />
From: mswanhall at earthlink.net (Marty Swanhall)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:32:09 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Solitary Sandpiper<br />
Message-ID: <A667F9436773445496D393E98E68094D@SwanhallPC><br />
<br />
Saw 2 Solitary Sandpipers in wetland area on South Pomperaug Road in Woodbury on way home today<br />
<br />
Marty in Woodbury<br />
<br />
From pfavreau at cox.net Fri Aug 26 18:28:32 2011<br />
From: pfavreau at cox.net (pfavreau at cox.net)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:28:32 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Baird's Sandpiper<br />
Message-ID: <20110826182832.WVKHC.1544161.imail@eastrmwml47><br />
<br />
>From Patrice Favreau:<br />
08/26/11 - East Hartford Cabela's Pond,10:00-10:30AM- 1 Baird's Sandpiper, 1 imm Wood Duck, 2 Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Least Sandpiper, possible 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper but flew off, 1 Green Heron, numerous Killdeer & Savannah Sparrows around, 1 Am Kestrel way back behind fence behind pond, 32 Canada Goose (no collars)<br />
<br />
<br />
--<br />
Patrice<br />
<br />
<br />
From pfavreau at cox.net Fri Aug 26 18:45:54 2011<br />
From: pfavreau at cox.net (pfavreau at cox.net)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:45:54 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Night Heron<br />
Message-ID: <20110826184554.AQPHP.1544319.imail@eastrmwml47><br />
<br />
>From Patrice Favreau:<br />
08/26/11 - South Windsor, private/corporate pond across from Park&Ride on Ellington Rd at intersection of Rte5, around 3PM - juv Black-crowned Night Heron, Green Heron, DC Cormorant, Spotted Sandpiper, GB Heron, several Mallards, 200 Canada Geese (five with neck bands)<br />
--<br />
Patrice<br />
<br />
<br />
From birdgirrl at comcast.net Fri Aug 26 20:44:39 2011<br />
From: birdgirrl at comcast.net (Susanne Shrader)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:44:39 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Avon COMMON NIGHTHAWKS<br />
Message-ID: <F1BDC021-3822-45CB-90E4-44538EAB83A9@comcast.net><br />
<br />
From Susanne Shrader:<br />
08/26/2011-Avon, Tillotson Rd at road reconstruction site-- 20-25 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS hawking.<br />
<br />
Susanne Shrader<br />
birdgirrl at comcast.net<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From robben99 at gmail.com Fri Aug 26 21:10:34 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:10:34 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] FIRST HURRICANE BIRDS for Irene are from SouthCarolina</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CANpJbq2imbqZXbpAj3zog-S5m7eS=k2qQ9ww_3O9qhmsjSPwFQ@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">South Carolina reports the first "hurricane birds" late today.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Its a good start!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">All internet list reports of hurricane birds will be summarized on this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">website daily for this one week...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">If you use eBird to report any hurricane birds seen, please also report them</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">directly to your state listserv (such as this CTbirds) so that we can pull</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">together a complete picture of this hurricane's birds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom Robben</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Glastonbury CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">======================</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8:31 PM Friday August 26</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi Tom - in South Carolina, Brown Noddy, Sooty Tern, and a couple of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">frigatebirds were seen this evening.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Andrew Dasinger</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From mjwarner at optonline.net Fri Aug 26 22:10:50 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: mjwarner at optonline.net (Mike Warner)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:10:50 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] OT:Governor Malloy Message</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <F4CB94BAE71A4BC58ECED27635F74E5A@OfficePC></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Hi,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> Governor Malloy gives a 14 minute video message about how the state will deal with Hurricane Irene . This includes closing the Merritt Parkway and WIlbur Cross on midnight Saturday. There is no mention of when they will re-open.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://www.news12.com/index.jsp</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Mike Warner</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wilton, CT.</span><br />
<br />
From carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net Fri Aug 26 22:29:08 2011<br />
From: carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net (Carrier Graphics)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:29:08 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] 45 Nighthawks<br />
Message-ID: <1314412148.24708.YahooMailRC@web81803.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
At 6:30, 45 Nighthawks flew over the yard here in Harwinton all headed due<br />
North. Does anyone know why they do this when south or West is the best way to<br />
the tropics?<br />
I have noticed this habit of flying due North for years late in the day. Are<br />
they seeking insects or are they seeing other Nighthawks feeding to the North of<br />
them?<br />
<br />
Paul Carrier - Harwinton<br />
<br />
From gypsy.carol at charter.net Fri Aug 26 22:44:55 2011<br />
From: gypsy.carol at charter.net (Carol Bauby)<br />
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:44:55 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] 45 Nighthawks<br />
In-Reply-To: <1314412148.24708.YahooMailRC@web81803.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
References: <1314412148.24708.YahooMailRC@web81803.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
Message-ID: <4E585A27.5060605@charter.net><br />
<br />
Paul,<br />
<br />
I'm jealous. We were sitting in the yard here in Harwinton, watching<br />
for them at that time. Didn't see a one.<br />
<br />
~Carol<br />
<br />
On 8/26/2011 10:29 PM, Carrier Graphics wrote:<br />
> At 6:30, 45 Nighthawks flew over the yard here in Harwinton all headed due<br />
> North. Does anyone know why they do this when south or West is the best way to<br />
> the tropics?<br />
> I have noticed this habit of flying due North for years late in the day. Are<br />
> they seeking insects or are they seeing other Nighthawks feeding to the North of<br />
> them?<br />
><br />
> Paul Carrier - Harwinton<br />
> _______________________________________________<br />
> This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut.<br />
> For subscription information visit http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org<br />
><br />
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From mresch8702 at aol.com Sat Aug 27 06:09:10 2011<br />
From: mresch8702 at aol.com (mresch8702 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:09:10 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Baird's Sandpiper, 3 PM, 8/27<br />
In-Reply-To: <1314380841.87336.YahooMailRC@web180011.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
References: <1314380841.87336.YahooMailRC@web180011.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
Message-ID: <8CE32B87F746D70-1058-DA41@webmail-d054.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
<br />
A Baird's Sandpiper was present at the Cabela's pond in East Hartford at 3 PM on Friday (8/27). Other birds present were -<br />
<br />
8 Least Sandpipers<br />
3 Spotted Sandpipers<br />
1 Solitary Sandpiper<br />
Many Killdeer<br />
1 Im. Green Heron - flew in from ??<br />
30 Canada Geese - including several juveniles still smaller than the adults<br />
1 Savannah Sparrow (acting like a shorebird)<br />
<br />
It's interesting that the Baird's was not present from 2:30 to 3 PM - 3 of us searched every inch of the pond edges with no luck. I was about to give up and then all of a sudden the Baird's was there! Not sure if it was in the grass surrounding the pond as Baird's like to do, or whether it flew in from elsewhere. The Green Heron flew in while we were there too, so maybe there is additional habitat nearby. In any case, if you don't see the bird when you first arrive you might stick around for a while.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mike Resch<br />
Pepperell, MA<br />
www.statebirding.blogspot.com<br />
<br />
<br />
From mresch8702 at aol.com Sat Aug 27 06:27:39 2011<br />
From: mresch8702 at aol.com (mresch8702 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:27:39 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Baird's Sandpiper, 3 PM, 8/27<br />
In-Reply-To: <8CE32B87F746D70-1058-DA41@webmail-d054.sysops.aol.com><br />
References: <1314380841.87336.YahooMailRC@web180011.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><8CE32B87F746D70-1058-DA41@webmail-d054.sysops.aol.com><br />
Message-ID: <8CE32BB14D17327-1058-DBC5@webmail-d054.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
That was actually on Friday 8/26 - not 8/27. (another of those senior moments I'm afraid...)<br />
<br />
<br />
Mike Resch<br />
<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: mresch8702 <mresch8702 at aol.com><br />
To: ctbirds <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Sent: Sat, Aug 27, 2011 6:09 am<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Baird's Sandpiper, 3 PM, 8/27<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Baird's Sandpiper was present at the Cabela's pond in East Hartford at 3 PM on<br />
riday (8/27). Other birds present were -<br />
8 Least Sandpipers<br />
Spotted Sandpipers<br />
Solitary Sandpiper<br />
any Killdeer<br />
Im. Green Heron - flew in from ??<br />
0 Canada Geese - including several juveniles still smaller than the adults<br />
Savannah Sparrow (acting like a shorebird)<br />
It's interesting that the Baird's was not present from 2:30 to 3 PM - 3 of us<br />
earched every inch of the pond edges with no luck. I was about to give up and<br />
hen all of a sudden the Baird's was there! Not sure if it was in the grass<br />
urrounding the pond as Baird's like to do, or whether it flew in from<br />
lsewhere. The Green Heron flew in while we were there too, so maybe there is<br />
dditional habitat nearby. In any case, if you don't see the bird when you<br />
irst arrive you might stick around for a while.<br />
<br />
ike Resch<br />
epperell, MA<br />
ww.statebirding.blogspot.com<br />
_______________________________________________<br />
his list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for<br />
he discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut.<br />
or subscription information visit http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org<br />
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From pcianfaglione at hotmail.com Sat Aug 27 08:22:48 2011<br />
From: pcianfaglione at hotmail.com (paul cianfaglione)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:22:48 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's Pond<br />
Message-ID: <BLU135-W196043648154A07E54A2EBB120@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
8/27 East Hartford, Cabela's Pond - 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER continues, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER flying over field calling.<br />
<br />
Paul Cianfaglione and Rick Macsuga <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
<br />
From streatham2003 at aol.com Sat Aug 27 09:47:53 2011<br />
From: streatham2003 at aol.com (streatham2003 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:47:53 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] New US BIrd Species Discovered<br />
Message-ID: <8CE32D70D5B6F44-60C-FCDC@Webmail-d123.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
<br />
Hi All,<br />
<br />
Thought people might find this interesting? Perhaps a chance to look for the second record this weekend ;) http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/new-shearwater-species/ Looking forward to being able to ask Peter Pyle about this when he gives his talk at Audubon Greenwich this fall.<br />
<br />
Luke Tiller, Greenwich<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From petermgreen at hotmail.com Sat Aug 27 10:15:49 2011<br />
From: petermgreen at hotmail.com (Tina and Peter Green)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:15:49 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Westport WW Scoter still here<br />
Message-ID: <BLU145-W29CAB6CEAE5B9825F6280EAF120@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
8/27/11 - Westport - Compo Beach (Soundview Avenue) - White-winged Scoter continues on the beach this morning, preening and looking quite healthy. I still have not seen this bird feeding. The views of this bird have been excellent,even with just your bins!<br />
<br />
Note: I continue to post this bird as I have received several emails regarding it's condition,etc.<br />
<br />
Tina Green<br />
Westport<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
<br />
From davewb07 at sbcglobal.net Sat Aug 27 12:55:31 2011<br />
From: davewb07 at sbcglobal.net (John D Babington)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:55:31 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Great crested flycatcher, Washington, CT<br />
Message-ID: <1314464131.84544.YahooMailNeo@web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
While running around our property here in Washington, CT in the late afternoon on Friday to get ready for Hurricane Irene I heard a great crested flycatcher. Since I have not a GCF around here in awhile I have to assume this one was a migrate. Sorry no "biggie" Hurricane Irene bird. Hope this GCF has no troubles with Irene in migration.<br />
<br />
David W Babington<br />
Washington, CT<br />
<br />
From teustis at killingworthlibrary.org Sat Aug 27 13:24:45 2011<br />
From: teustis at killingworthlibrary.org (Tammy Eustis)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:24:45 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Great crested flycatcher, Washington, CT<br />
Message-ID: <W6570614989104511314465885@webmail28><br />
<br />
Interesting... I heard a GCFC too, when I was just o<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">ut for a "last" walk around the ne</span>ighborhood. Otherwise, our area is eerily quiet - nowhere near the usual level of bird activity. A few stray juveniles: mourning doves, cardinals, woodpeckers; and the hummingbirds. I'll definitely take stock again after Irene moves through.<br />
~ Tammy Eustis, Chester<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: John D Babington [mailto:davewb07 at sbcglobal.net]<br />
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:55 PM<br />
To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Great crested flycatcher, Washington, CT<br />
<br />
While running around our property here in Washington, CT in the late afternoon on Friday to get ready for Hurricane Irene I heard a great crested flycatcher. Since I have not a GCF around here in awhile I have to assume this one was a migrate. Sorry no "biggie" Hurricane Irene bird. Hope this GCF has no troubles with Irene in migration. David W Babington Washington, CT _______________________________________________ This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut. For subscription information visit http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Sat Aug 27 13:44:19 2011<br />
From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:44:19 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Ww scorer<br />
Message-ID: <1314467059.17399.yext-apple-iphone@web80007.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
>From frank Mantlik<br />
8/27 Stratford, short beach, 7am - male white-winged scorer, 700 common terns.<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPod<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From robben99 at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 15:44:00 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:44:00 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Some Hurricane Birds from FLA and Carolinas [3pm]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CANpJbq2g4YFLOkxcBbG7hLGFRscZQNUtb_j8HDoCjv1wY56adw@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Florida and the Carolinas report a number of Sooty Terns and Bridled Terns</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">today 8/27, as of 3pm.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">All internet listserv reports of hurricane birds will be summarized on this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">website daily for this one week...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">which will be updated again this evening around 9pm.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">If you use eBird to report any hurricane birds seen, as you should,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">please also report them to your state listserv (such as this CTbirds)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">so that we can find them and pull together a complete picture of this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">hurricane's birds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Lots of beaches and roads will be closed until the hurricane threat is past.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Put safety ahead of everything else and be careful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Good news...That whimbrel that flew into Hurricane Irene apparently is alive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">and transmitting its radio signal today from southern Eleuthera island in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">the caribbean...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=84206&zoom=1%E3%80%88=</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">And please remember to read Marshall Iliff's excellent article... Hurricane</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Irene en route ?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-en-route></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom Robben</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Glastonbury CT</span><br />
<br />
From john.oshlic at yahoo.com Sat Aug 27 16:23:18 2011<br />
From: john.oshlic at yahoo.com (John Oshlick)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:23:18 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sandy Point - Whimbrels<br />
Message-ID: <1314476598.69604.yint-ygo-j2me@web120403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Sandy Point, Westhaven - 2 Whimbrels in the marsh at low tide<br />
<br />
John Oshlick<br />
Hamden<br />
<br />
<br />
From htg1523 at att.net Sat Aug 27 16:55:28 2011<br />
From: htg1523 at att.net (Hank Golet)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:55:28 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Griswold Pt<br />
Message-ID: <10668B92978044739EFA246E714A952A@D5YDTZ61><br />
<br />
>From Hank Golet<br />
8-27, Old Lyme, Griswold Pt, 5 BLACK TERNS<br />
<br />
From rmharvey at snet.net Sat Aug 27 17:05:44 2011<br />
From: rmharvey at snet.net (Roy Harvey)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:05:44 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Barn Island White Ibis<br />
Message-ID: <1314479144.97132.YahooMailClassic@web81505.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Passing this along.<br />
<br />
<br />
From Bob and Maureen Dewire:<br />
August 27 around 4 pm at Barn Island in Stonington there was 1 immature WHITE IBIS in with a flock of 9 Glossies and a dozen egrets in the large marsh on the south side of the 4th impoundment.<br />
<br />
<br />
Roy Harvey<br />
Beacon Falls, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
From charsjs at sbcglobal.net Sat Aug 27 17:31:13 2011<br />
From: charsjs at sbcglobal.net (Stephen Spector)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:31:13 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black Tern Silver Sands SP<br />
Message-ID: <1314480673.89014.YahooMailRC@web180002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
From?Steve & Charla Spector:<br />
27 Aug 11, Silver Sands SP -- juv Black Tern around 10:30 AM<br />
charsjs at sbcglobal.net<br />
<br />
From closcalz at optonline.net Sat Aug 27 17:37:50 2011<br />
From: closcalz at optonline.net (Christopher Loscalzo)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:37:50 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black Terns at Hammo.<br />
Message-ID: <000301cc6501$924b1ab0$b6e15010$@optonline.net><br />
<br />
08/27/11-Madison, Hammonasset Beach State Park, Meig's Point jetty and<br />
surrounding waters-a loose flock of NINE BLACK TERNS, seen from 2:00 to 3:30<br />
pm. They spent some time roosting on the jetty, but spent most of the time<br />
flying/feeding over the shallow waters. Perhaps there will be even rarer<br />
terns there by Monday morning! Also, one LITTLE BLUE HERON in the marsh.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Chris Loscalzo<br />
<br />
Woodbridge <br />
<br />
<br />
From dana.l.campbell at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 17:58:35 2011<br />
From: dana.l.campbell at gmail.com (Dana Campbell)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:58:35 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Savannah at my house<br />
Message-ID: <CAOpKxkOK56eL_-2YGSQvmCbQrQR5fMzVsLANcLenXKP1aXmfnQ@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Savannah Sparrow under my feeder in E. Hartford. I don't usually have them<br />
here in the yard. I am only a short distance from Cabela's. Wish some of<br />
those others from there would make it onto my yard list! Right now the<br />
hummingbirds are chowing down constantly. Hope they all find a safe place<br />
to hunker down.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Dana Campbell, Priest in Charge<br />
Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford<br />
dana.l.campbell at gmail.com<br />
<br />
*"*Come to me bird-watching God, you will find the branches for nesting. A<br />
mustard seed of faith grows to a place of many wings*.*"<br />
from ?Prayer of the Heart? by Maren C.<br />
Tirabassi & Joan Jordan Grant<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From mjwarner at optonline.net Sat Aug 27 18:52:35 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: mjwarner at optonline.net (Mike Warner)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:52:35 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] OT: Governor Malloy Message #2</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <4A603881EBC14049AAA3504953C08D61@OfficePC></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Hi,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> Governor Malloy's updated Hurricane Irene message from 4 pm today.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://www.news12.com/index.jsp</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Mike Warner</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wilton, CT.</span><br />
<br />
From elphick at sbcglobal.net Sat Aug 27 19:29:30 2011<br />
From: elphick at sbcglobal.net (elphick at sbcglobal.net)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:29:30 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawks in Storrs<br />
Message-ID: <E295EF4C-A626-4244-B054-6CF69934585C@sbcglobal.net><br />
<br />
There were 460+ nighthawks heading south along the Willimantic River at Eagleville Lake this evening.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
<br />
From dana.l.campbell at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 19:48:42 2011<br />
From: dana.l.campbell at gmail.com (Dana Campbell)<br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:48:42 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawks in East Hartford<br />
Message-ID: <CAOpKxkPOB9Lz_ZSwSnnCKrxRibE1pnrrY5QD4Rj4MMCOYC90hw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
>From Dana Campbell:<br />
8/27 - East Hartford backyard - 3 Common Nighthawks<br />
I went to take down my feeders for the big blow, and these guys flew right<br />
over me! Yardbird!<br />
<br />
--<br />
Dana Campbell, Priest in Charge<br />
Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford<br />
dana.l.campbell at gmail.com<br />
<br />
*"*Come to me bird-watching God, you will find the branches for nesting. A<br />
mustard seed of faith grows to a place of many wings*.*"<br />
from ?Prayer of the Heart? by Maren C.<br />
Tirabassi & Joan Jordan Grant<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 21:44:15 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:44:15 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Communication tomorrow and Monday</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <2BD38D79-E434-43D1-B099-3D86DE91996D@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi folks, looks like there could be a window tomorrow PM for safe post-storm birding, in addition to Monday. If we're really lucky we'll have some fast and furious rarity action. Remember to make phone calls, post to the list if you can, and take photos if you have a camera.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I will be out and about if safe, and will post results if anything noteworthy is seen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Good luck to everyone. Hopefully the effort will pay off, and remember to be safe above all else!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wallingford</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From robben99 at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 22:03:02 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:03:02 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane birds in the next 48hours</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CANpJbq1vuRir_t=Jki=oya2v24q6dink-TgNX1NkzVo5HmihJA@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I second what Nick just said, and will keep my site updated tomorrow...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">assuming birders post to CTbirds or their local state bird list (and also</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">eBird if possible).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">This site is up-to-date now, as of 9pm tonight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">And enjoy Marshall Iliff's great article...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-en-route</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Good luck and be careful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Tom Robben</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Glastonbury CT</span><br />
<br />
=========================<br />
Subject: Communication tomorrow and Monday<br />
From: Nick Bonomo <nbonomo AT gmail.com><br />
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:44:15 -0400<br />
Hi folks, looks like there could be a window tomorrow PM for safe<br />
post-storm<br />
birding, in addition to Monday. If we're really lucky we'll have some fast<br />
and<br />
furious rarity action. Remember to make phone calls, post to the list if<br />
you<br />
can, and take photos if you have a camera.<br />
<br />
<br />
I will be out and about if safe, and will post results if anything<br />
noteworthy<br />
is seen.<br />
<br />
<br />
Good luck to everyone. Hopefully the effort will pay off, and remember to<br />
be<br />
safe above all else!<br />
<br />
<br />
Nick<br />
Wallingford<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Sat Aug 27 22:22:31 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:22:31 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Stratford Black Tern</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314498151.69745.YahooMailRC@web80012.mail.sp1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">>From Frank Mantlik</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/27 Stratford, Stratford Point - 1 BLACK TERN flew upriver with Common Terns </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">at 7pm. Virtually nothing out over L I Sound (2 Laughing Gulls), but I scanned </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">only briefly. I was along the shoreline much of the day (Westport mostly; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Stratford before and after work), and little else of note.</span><br />
<br />
From dana.l.campbell at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 07:42:08 2011<br />
From: dana.l.campbell at gmail.com (Dana Campbell)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:42:08 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] hummer question<br />
Message-ID: <CAOpKxkOYWEQckTGMi2KV4PSK3WonDNb2frcG4t=cr3vGTRYgyA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
I had taken down all my feeders, but put up a couple again this morning as<br />
there were birds chirping all around. I spread lots of seed on the ground<br />
under the shelter of the forsythias, but I have watched the hummers making<br />
aborted passes at the nectar. I have another feeder hung in a more<br />
sheltered place, but haven't been able to monitor it. Any ideas on what to<br />
do? Should I hang it down lower to the ground? Poor little guys. Doesn't<br />
take much of a gust to thwart their efforts to feed.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Dana Campbell, Priest in Charge<br />
Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford<br />
dana.l.campbell at gmail.com<br />
<br />
*"*Come to me bird-watching God, you will find the branches for nesting. A<br />
mustard seed of faith grows to a place of many wings*.*"<br />
from ?Prayer of the Heart? by Maren C.<br />
Tirabassi & Joan Jordan Grant<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 07:44:58 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:44:58 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] SOOTY TERN</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <525CE866-B80D-44FB-B265-C85D6BD05BFF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">adult SOOTY TERN seen from car Morningside Dr Milford. Prolonged views as battled winds heading westish.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 08:21:00 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:21:00 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] LT JAEGER</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <13A1597C-5E5E-452B-8CF0-13E5DA340655@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Juv LT JAEGER pass down the beach also heading down coast to west. Mirningside Dr Milford. Details later.</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 08:30:31 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:30:31 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sooty #2, unident jaeger<br />
Message-ID: <B03C8255-FD17-40CE-BD06-7CB922045838@gmail.com><br />
<br />
Same spot<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 09:53:43 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:53:43 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] BAND-RUMP, Atratford phals</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <F5299CAE-5852-4D0F-B502-97F679D473F2@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Julian and I had a Band-rumped SP</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Frank Mantlik has 50 RN Phalaropes in the marsh at the base of Long Beach</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<br />
From cekroth at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 10:09:14 2011<br />
From: cekroth at comcast.net (cekroth at comcast.net)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:09:14 +0000 (UTC)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] brave hummers<br />
Message-ID: <313694260.626893.1314540554649.JavaMail.root@sz0156a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
8/28, Ellington, two hummers are acting as if there is nothing out of the ordinary,<br />
<br />
chasing each other around the feeder and stopping to have a drink.? Amazing!<br />
<br />
No other birds around.<br />
<br />
Carl Ekroth<br />
<br />
From sffaulkner at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 10:17:52 2011<br />
From: sffaulkner at comcast.net (Sarah Faulkner)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:17:52 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] hummer question<br />
In-Reply-To: <CAOpKxkOYWEQckTGMi2KV4PSK3WonDNb2frcG4t=cr3vGTRYgyA@mail.gmail.com><br />
References: <CAOpKxkOYWEQckTGMi2KV4PSK3WonDNb2frcG4t=cr3vGTRYgyA@mail.gmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <A0C7625D359442F092017DE41537DA6D@SarahPC><br />
<br />
I, too, am feeling badly about having taken down the feeders. My one<br />
remaining pole feeder is seeing lots of activity -- including one tenacious<br />
baby cardinal who persists on sitting on top and screaming for food. The<br />
hummers keep coming to the backdoor, looking for their feeder... maybe in a<br />
couple of hours I can put everything back up. So far -- fingers crossed -- <br />
this is far less severe than a thunderstorm we had a few weeks ago. I can't<br />
wait to open the windows again -- getting stuffy inside!<br />
<br />
Sarah Faulkner<br />
Collinsville<br />
----- Original Message -----<br />
From: "Dana Campbell" <dana.l.campbell at gmail.com><br />
To: <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:42 AM<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] hummer question<br />
<br />
<br />
I had taken down all my feeders, but put up a couple again this morning as<br />
there were birds chirping all around. I spread lots of seed on the ground<br />
under the shelter of the forsythias, but I have watched the hummers making<br />
aborted passes at the nectar. I have another feeder hung in a more<br />
sheltered place, but haven't been able to monitor it. Any ideas on what to<br />
do? Should I hang it down lower to the ground? Poor little guys. Doesn't<br />
take much of a gust to thwart their efforts to feed.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Dana Campbell, Priest in Charge<br />
Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford<br />
dana.l.campbell at gmail.com<br />
<br />
*"*Come to me bird-watching God, you will find the branches for nesting. A<br />
mustard seed of faith grows to a place of many wings*.*"<br />
from ?Prayer of the Heart? by Maren C.<br />
Tirabassi & Joan Jordan Grant<br />
_______________________________________________<br />
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for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut.<br />
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<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From eyeflight16 at optonline.net Sun Aug 28 10:27:19 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: eyeflight16 at optonline.net (eyeflight16 at optonline.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:27:19 +0000 (GMT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] SOOTY TERN Fairfield Beach</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <e4dc8725ffe6.4e5a5047@optonline.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I am here braving the weather from my house on Fairfield Beach, and after desperate searching at Nick's reports, I have finally gotten a hurricane bird, an adult SOOTY TERN just flew by, heading west. Now, I probably should stop birding and deal with the 7-foot waves that are 20 feet from my house.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">James Purcell</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Fairfield</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From kbosch at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 11:37:42 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:37:42 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] SOOTY TERNS Stratford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CANNUtCZao=1KAW9waPJDfu8nHxobz7sF63WxcX6ZJE5FC099WQ@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Several at least plus Black Forster's more at Devon/Stratford bridge</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">more to come I'm sure Charlie Barnard found em I'm here with Frank</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Mantlik now too.</span><br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 11:43:59 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:43:59 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Strtdord Sooties</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <5AB5D8F2-8196-4730-B3F8-FDD5BF8895EF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Mantlik has several SOTE at rte 1 crosses housatonic in Stratford </span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From dtrippjr at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 12:48:00 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: dtrippjr at comcast.net (David Tripp jr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:48:00 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Bantam Lake storm petrel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <3C2BB938-70A2-428E-A0CB-A29A5ABD4A20@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Just got a call from Fran Zygmont. He is trying to relocate and nail down a storm petrel in the North Bay of Bantam Lake in Litchfield</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Dave Tripp</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From dtrippjr at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 13:00:12 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: dtrippjr at comcast.net (David Tripp jr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:00:12 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Bantam Lake storm petrel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <3C2BB938-70A2-428E-A0CB-A29A5ABD4A20@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References: <3C2BB938-70A2-428E-A0CB-A29A5ABD4A20@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <263B76EA-3D24-4E73-A9AB-20D31A4B57BA@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Leach's </span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:48 PM, David Tripp jr <dtrippjr at comcast.net> wrote:<br />
<br />
> Just got a call from Fran Zygmont. He is trying to relocate and nail down a storm petrel in the North Bay of Bantam Lake in Litchfield<br />
><br />
> Dave Tripp<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
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From fzygmont at charter.net Sun Aug 28 13:01:17 2011<br />
From: fzygmont at charter.net (Fran Zygmont)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:01:17 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] (no subject)<br />
Message-ID: <8E0806F3-5010-476A-A7DF-C5E7DCD47854@charter.net><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Fran<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From fzygmont at charter.net Sun Aug 28 13:02:45 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: fzygmont at charter.net (Fran Zygmont)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:02:45 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Leach's storm petrel - Bantam Lake</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <222A919A-F76E-4987-950A-FEF5E744623E@charter.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Identified as such. Snapped a couple photos too!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Fran</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From dtrippjr at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 13:43:20 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: dtrippjr at comcast.net (David Tripp jr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:43:20 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Bantam Lake</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <60B5258D-E5AA-43BF-9916-18D1866BD60B@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">4 Sooty Terns and 4 Black Terns at Point Folly !!!!!!!</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From alexanderburdo at mac.com Sun Aug 28 13:55:48 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: alexanderburdo at mac.com (Alexander Burdo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:55:48 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] SOOTY TERNS and LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, Fairfield</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <3F153D50-B4E0-47CA-8D21-9999F8DA2305@mac.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Just returned from a two-hour vigil at the mouth of Pine Creek with Christian Ghiorzi where we were able to connect with two adult SOOTY TERNS, 1 LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, 2 Whimbrel, 4 Laughing Gull and 1 probable Roseate Tern. More later, as I'm planning on heading back out. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Alex Burdo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Fairfield </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From markaronson at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 14:04:21 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: markaronson at gmail.com (Mark Aronson)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:04:21 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Royal tern</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CAC4M_N0JgD3OxETm_2LvPFeYHy2CphKMkF0FXu4D6bTdEOMqJg@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">New haven, morris cove, royal term, 2 pm</span><br />
<br />
From gabe101296 at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 14:06:37 2011<br />
From: gabe101296 at gmail.com (Gabriel Cohen-Glinick)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:06:37 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Storm birding tomorrow<br />
Message-ID: <CAPQwhGHm9OHC=4Vijmuqr7pR+LHU2Dt3rqfqY1TsxbAtR7mo=w@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Hi all,<br />
<br />
I assume it will be, but I was wondering if others think the storm birding<br />
will still be good tomorrow because I can't get out today.<br />
<br />
<br />
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated,<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
<br />
Gabe Cohen-Glinick<br />
Providence, RI<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From dtrippjr at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 14:31:30 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: dtrippjr at comcast.net (David Tripp jr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:31:30 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Bantam Lake</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In-Reply-To: <60B5258D-E5AA-43BF-9916-18D1866BD60B@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">References: <60B5258D-E5AA-43BF-9916-18D1866BD60B@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <6303D6DD-D32E-4CFC-948E-B43933A93282@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Looks like the birds are trying to head out, gaining altitude fighting the winds. Access is limited from flooding</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Aug 28, 2011, at 1:43 PM, David Tripp jr <dtrippjr at comcast.net> wrote:<br />
<br />
> 4 Sooty Terns and 4 Black Terns at Point Folly !!!!!!!<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From mardi1d at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 14:39:05 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: mardi1d at gmail.com (Mardi Dickinson)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:39:05 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Red- Neck Phalarope in Norwalk</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <0F8F1C02-BEDB-4DCF-9397-7020871FB93C@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2:26 - 2:37pm, RED- NECKED PHALAROPE + Photo, was present in puddle in middle of Veterns Park in South Norwalk. Just Flew East towards westport. Will update later.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Cheers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Mardi & Towny Dickinson</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Norwalk CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://kymry.wordpress.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://twitter.com/MardiWD</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 15:05:33 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:05:33 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal birds still moving</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <670FFAAF-D0CA-4C4D-8A5C-88C58FC570AF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">A slow trickle of pelagics continues. Off a dead end st near ouster river, sooty term, leachs and wilsons SP.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Amazing variety.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From Kfinnan at aol.com Sun Aug 28 15:39:27 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: Kfinnan at aol.com (Kfinnan at aol.com)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:39:27 -0400 (EDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Sooty Tern Goshen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <33484.73262a73.3b8bf36f@aol.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Given the reports from nearby Bantam Lake, I had to check out Woodridge </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Lake and saw one, lone Sooty Tern in the cove by the marina. Otherwise, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">there was very little activity, no Black Terns or anything else notable.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Kevin Finnan</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Goshen</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org Sun Aug 28 16:09:29 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org (Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:09:29 -0700</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Black terns at Hanover Pond</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <D180D9CFEF67814EA3197C049C4B0441171E9893@VA3DIAXVS6B1.RED001.local></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/28/11 Hanover Pond, Meriden, from 2:30-3:00p, 3 Black terns.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Meriden, CT </span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From birdinggeek at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 16:12:42 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: birdinggeek at gmail.com (Mark Szantyr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:12:42 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal birds still moving</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <670FFAAF-D0CA-4C4D-8A5C-88C58FC570AF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References: <670FFAAF-D0CA-4C4D-8A5C-88C58FC570AF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <2ABA7C85-66F7-4D88-AA8F-D9317E2D3B94@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sooty Tern, leaches Storm- petrel, forsters tern, caspian tern at mansfield hollow. Took me two hours to get there from home in Ashford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Mark </span><br />
<br />
On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Nick Bonomo <nbonomo at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
> A slow trickle of pelagics continues. Off a dead end st near ouster river, sooty term, leachs and wilsons SP.<br />
><br />
> Amazing variety.<br />
><br />
> Nick<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From birdinggeek at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 16:16:56 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: birdinggeek at gmail.com (Mark Szantyr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:16:56 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal birds still moving</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In-Reply-To: <670FFAAF-D0CA-4C4D-8A5C-88C58FC570AF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">References: <670FFAAF-D0CA-4C4D-8A5C-88C58FC570AF@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <74AEBF1E-0714-427C-B3C6-3D4E7DBCCFFE@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Black tern as well. Limited cell service</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Mark </span><br />
<br />
On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Nick Bonomo <nbonomo at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
> A slow trickle of pelagics continues. Off a dead end st near ouster river, sooty term, leachs and wilsons SP.<br />
><br />
> Amazing variety.<br />
><br />
> Nick<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
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From dtrippjr at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 16:30:43 2011<br />
From: dtrippjr at comcast.net (David Tripp jr)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:30:43 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Negative reports for last two hours at Bantam Lake<br />
Message-ID: <E643FD57-B708-4742-8B81-4CEA20D61477@comcast.net><br />
<br />
After that brief break in the weather (blue sky and sun) no birds could be relocated.<br />
Reinforcements along with access to the south end didn't help.<br />
<br />
Dave Tripp<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From cekroth at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 16:54:41 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: cekroth at comcast.net (cekroth at comcast.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:54:41 +0000 (UTC)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Snipsic Lake-nada</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1619771122.640651.1314564881872.JavaMail.root@sz0156a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">with the positive reports at other lakes, I checked "The Snip" finding nothing but a few swallows and one DC corm. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Carl Ekroth</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From Asterbunch at cox.net Sun Aug 28 17:10:49 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: Asterbunch at cox.net (Bill Asteriades)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:10:49 +0000</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Wallingford - Mississippi Kite</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <20110828211113.KLJN3924.eastrmfepo103.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/28/11 - Wallingford over route 91 by exit 14, MISSISSIPPI KITE. Also, thanks to Nick Bonomo, Frank Mantlik and Mark Aronson for the prompt reporting of the sooty tern, bridled tern and royal tern.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Bill Asteriades</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">South Glastonbury</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my Droid Charge on Verizon 4GLTE<br />
<br />
------Original Message------<br />
From: Gabriel Cohen-Glinick <gabe101296 at gmail.com><br />
To: <massbird at theworld.com>,<ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org>,"Gabriel Cohen-Glinick" <gabe101296 at gmail.com><br />
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011 2:06:37 PM GMT-4<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Storm birding tomorrow<br />
<br />
Hi all,<br />
<br />
I assume it will be, but I was wondering if others think the storm birding<br />
will still be good tomorrow because I can't get out today.<br />
<br />
<br />
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated,<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
<br />
Gabe Cohen-Glinick<br />
Providence, RI<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 17:20:07 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:20:07 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Candlewood Sooties</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <D11A6AEB-C709-4DC9-9962-C9B840C57050@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Jim Dugan reports 11 Sooty Terns at Candlewood Lake in New Fairfield.</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From richardpayne07 at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 18:35:59 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: richardpayne07 at gmail.com (Richard Payne)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:35:59 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Terns: CASPIAN, ROYAL, SOOTY</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CAJxOUak2+RcPX2p_esdjvt2VXf-Wb4ovG=cr1jiozmYzAesspw@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Was able to do some post-storm birding on the coast this afternoon:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">CASPIAN TERN - 1 in adult plumage flying over Frash Pond in Stratford, 3:15</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">pm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Milford Point, 4:20-4:50:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">ROYAL TERN - 1 in non-breeding plumage, looking worn out, on the gravel bars</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">before flying into the marsh. I got within 50 feet of it before I even</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">noticed he was there; the bird had a metal band on its right leg; if he</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">sticks around should be easy enough to find tomorrow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">SOOTY TERN - 1 seen flying among a flock of ~40 Common Terns, over Long</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Island Sound from the Milford Point gravel bars.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Descriptions of all birds are going into eBird soon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">~Richard</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From whitewash88 at live.com Sun Aug 28 18:43:37 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: whitewash88 at live.com (Mark Barriger)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:43:37 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] storm birding</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <BAY155-W593F96718462FC86594D32C9150@phx.gbl></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">East Shore Park - (2) Sooty Terns, (35) Red-necked Phalaropes, & (5) Black Terns.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Saybrook Point - (1) Sooty Tern, (75) Red-necked Phalaropes, (1) Red Phalarope, (10) Black terns.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Broad Brook Reservoir in Cheshire - (5) Black Terns</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">A few distant photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitewash88/</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Mark Barriger</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wallingford, CT </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From markaronson at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 18:58:04 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: markaronson at gmail.com (Mark Aronson)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:58:04 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] A note on the Royal TernS</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CAC4M_N1LkZ-KH3NSry_ds2i1XznFbru1msjVjLRXJNRjSOxWuw@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Just a note, there were 4 or 5 Royal Terns in Morris Cove, New Haven around</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">2 PM. Not just 1.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From birdinggeek at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 19:00:26 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: birdinggeek at gmail.com (Mark Szantyr)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:00:26 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Mansfield Hollow today</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <7BFEE868-A126-409B-AE18-1A7B24FAF162@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">After taking about two hours to drive the ten miles from my house to the Hollow, I found a single adult Sooty Tern, 2 or 3 Black Terns, a Caspian Tern, 2 or 3 Forster's Terns, a tern that can only have been a Least Tern (critically studied by me, Phil Rusch, and Chris Elphick), 2 Leach's Storm-Petrels, and a medium sized all dark bird that was tantalizing but unidentified.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Mark </span><br />
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From dtrippjr at comcast.net Sun Aug 28 19:16:40 2011<br />
From: dtrippjr at comcast.net (David Tripp jr)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:16:40 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawks continue<br />
Message-ID: <5CE8BEDD-9000-4AC8-B39E-35F881EC33FA@comcast.net><br />
<br />
<br />
While grilling burgers (no power) 20 or so nighthawks went over fighting the winds. It reminded me of our exciting day of the Sooty and Black Terns fighting the wind as they gained altitude leaving Bantam Lake.<br />
<br />
Dave Tripp<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 20:02:48 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:02:48 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] West Haven</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <D285D3B1-36C1-4E1E-965F-75E6F8A2E4A0@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">This afternoon at Sandy Point 2 alternate plumaged Common Loons, 2 Black Terns and a Caspian Tern.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 20:47:44 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:47:44 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] belated reports from Luke Tiller, Tom Robben's blog,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">etc etc</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CABgXtNfUcpb8rQW4124DUnpfmimsP+7Fx348waEDDTkM8MGd3g@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Luke Tiller, who is without power, called to report 2 SOOTY TERNS from</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">the Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch site in Greenwich this afternoon, plus a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">very brief and poor view of 3 large birds that were either Wood Storks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">or Sandhill Cranes. So keep an eye out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Tom Robben, who also lost power, wanted folks to know that his blog</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">will be updated again once he regains power.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://hurricaneirene2011.blogspot.com/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Also just wanted to say how well everyone handled the storm today.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Seems like a lot of people were able to safely get out birding at one</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">point or another, despite access difficulties, and the lines of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">communication were in full swing. Awesome job exchanging information.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">The fun may not be over yet. There are undoubtedly birds still stuck</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">inland that need to reorient towards the ocean if they are able.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Continue to check all bodies of water for birds. Plus keep an eye out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">for some species that may be more likely to turn up after the storm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">has cleared, like frigatebirds or rare passerines.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick Bonomo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wallingford, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">www.shorebirder.com</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From jbudrow at sbcglobal.net Sun Aug 28 21:27:37 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: jbudrow at sbcglobal.net (Joseph Budrow)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Black terns at Hanover Pond</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <D180D9CFEF67814EA3197C049C4B0441171E9893@VA3DIAXVS6B1.RED001.local></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314581257.28183.YahooMailClassic@web180206.mail.gq1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I, too was at Hanover Pond but lost power at the house and was unable to post. Very excited to see three birds acting so different from birds I have seen here ever. They set themselves up by pointing into the wind and flapped northwest toward the inflowing Quinnipiac River. During this trajectory they flitted up, sideways and down until they splashed down to dine on whatever. Then they would take air and zoom backwards a few hundred yards and did it all again. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Thanks to those for posting their inland pelagic sightings. Its what got me to roll downhill to the pond and my week is made. A lifer!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I actually went to the pond in hopes of seeing a magnificent frigatebird :(</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">JB </span><br />
<br />
--- On Sun, 8/28/11, Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie <cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org> wrote:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie <cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Black terns at Hanover Pond</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">To: "ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 4:09 PM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/28/11 Hanover Pond, Meriden, from 2:30-3:00p, 3 Black terns.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Meriden, CT </span><br />
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From jbudrow at sbcglobal.net Sun Aug 28 21:33:12 2011<br />
From: jbudrow at sbcglobal.net (Joseph Budrow)<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:33:12 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black terns at Hanover Pond<br />
In-Reply-To: <D180D9CFEF67814EA3197C049C4B0441171E9893@VA3DIAXVS6B1.RED001.local><br />
Message-ID: <1314581592.11553.YahooMailClassic@web180210.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Another sighting you just don't see every day...<br />
<br />
at the Meriden water treatment facility across from the airport was a large gaggle of geese just chillin' in a grassy area. They were spread out and were half-snoozin and half-eatin' grass. When up come 5 huge turkeys walkin' right through the middle of the gaggle. I thought they wanted to rumble.<br />
<br />
Meriden turkeys are tough SOBs. But today there was no rumble.<br />
<br />
JB<br />
<br />
--- On Sun, 8/28/11, Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie <cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org> wrote:<br />
<br />
From: Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie <cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org><br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black terns at Hanover Pond<br />
To: "ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 4:09 PM<br />
<br />
8/28/11 Hanover Pond, Meriden, from 2:30-3:00p, 3 Black terns.<br />
<br />
Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe<br />
Meriden, CT<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From andrew.dasinger at UTCPower.com Sun Aug 28 22:04:13 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: andrew.dasinger at UTCPower.com (Dasinger, Andrew M UTPWR)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:04:13 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's- East Hartford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <7268A8361C63E4438C3962234627C040BB0CF1@UUSNWEG3.na.utcmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/28 - Cabela's - East Hartford (around 4 p.m.)-- 1 Least Tern, 1 Baird's Sandpiper, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper, 2 Sanderling, 20+ Pectoral Sandiper, Semipal Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, over 600 Ring-billed Gulls. Rocky Hill Meadows was inacccessible. 2 additional Least Terns on the CT River in Glastonbury behind the wastewater treatment plant.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Andrew Dasinger</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">South Glastonbury</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450346635401488507.post-72922311098108384992011-08-22T21:00:00.034-04:002011-09-09T19:15:22.764-04:00Experimenting with the full text from CT birds list from 8/29Yellow or Green indicated hurricane-related posts....<br />
Red may be used to high-light some species....<br />
This long post is not completed.....work in progress....<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From robben99 at gmail.com Mon Aug 29 00:52:07 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:52:07 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Irene blog blown down</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <5221AC62-38CC-42BC-B5F0-55F7537C1D47@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Electricity failed at 11am Sunday and still in the dark here. Hoping to resume this blog Monday afternoon and catch-up with all the excellent storm birds reported in all the states. Good and safe birding to everybody. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tom Robben</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Glastonbury CT</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Mon Aug 29 06:39:00 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:39:00 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">BLACK-NECKED STILT</span>, Royal Term at Milford Pt</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <E06030D5-0FF7-4742-AC71-FBADF232DB54@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Stilt is against the Milford side of the jetty/breakwater at the mouth of the river. The northern end that's covered at high tide.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Also Royal and Black Terns at river mouth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick</span><br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From asterbunch at cox.net Mon Aug 29 07:48:58 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: asterbunch at cox.net (asterbunch at cox.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 7:48:58 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's- East Hartford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <7268A8361C63E4438C3962234627C040BB0CF1@UUSNWEG3.na.utcmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <20110829074858.MC6SG.1490454.imail@eastrmwml32></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/28 - Cabela's - East Hartford (around 10 a.m. yesterday)-- approx. 25 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES (I regret the delay in the report but we have no power at home and these birds did not appear to stay long). </span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Bill Asteriades</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">South Glastonbury</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From szagorski at daypitney.com Mon Aug 29 08:06:13 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:06:13 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hudsonian Godwit, Milford PT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D235@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In addition to the Stilt and the Royal Tern at Milford PT, Tina Green just called to say she found a HUDSONIAN GODWIT. There are a bunch of people there searching the marshes and ocean for other rarities.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sara Zagorski</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wethersfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From szagorski at daypitney.com Mon Aug 29 09:09:43 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:09:43 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's- East Hartford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <7268A8361C63E4438C3962234627C040BB0CF1@UUSNWEG3.na.utcmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D237@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In addition to what Andrew reported, Joe Valenti was there about an hour or so later and also had several Common Terns, 12 Black-bellied Plovers, great egret, and a Willet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sara Zagorski</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wethersfield</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">----- Original Message -----</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: Dasinger, Andrew M UTPWR [mailto:andrew.dasinger at UTCPower.com]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:04 PM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's- East Hartford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/28 - Cabela's - East Hartford (around 4 p.m.)-- 1 Least Tern, 1 Baird's Sandpiper, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper, 2 Sanderling, 20+ Pectoral Sandiper, Semipal Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, over 600 Ring-billed Gulls. Rocky Hill Meadows was inacccessible. 2 additional Least Terns on the CT River in Glastonbury behind the wastewater treatment plant.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Andrew Dasinger</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">South Glastonbury</span><br />
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F<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">rom szagorski at daypitney.com Mon Aug 29 09:58:17 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:58:17 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hudsonian Godwit, Milford PT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In-Reply-To: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D235@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">References: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D235@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D23B@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Tina Green called again to say the tide is at high and the birds are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">dispersing to the marsh, but John Oshlick also spotted an American</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Golden-Plover on the sandbars.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sara Zagorski</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wethersfield</span><br />
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Subject: [CT Birds] Hudsonian Godwit, Milford PT<br />
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In addition to the Stilt and the Royal Tern at Milford PT, Tina Green<br />
just called to say she found a HUDSONIAN GODWIT. There are a bunch of<br />
people there searching the marshes and ocean for other rarities.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From alexanderburdo at mac.com Mon Aug 29 10:19:11 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: alexanderburdo at mac.com (Alexander Burdo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:19:11 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] American Golden-Plover plus, Fairfield</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <D04D07A2-B32B-4436-A4EC-6229332DD238@mac.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I spent a couple of hours this morning hitting spots in the vicinity of Southport, hoping for a reorienting rarity to use Mill River to navigate and appear at Southport Harbor. Although nothing out of the ordinary was found there were still quite a few birds to be seen. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">The Fairfield Country Club, a decent spot for grasspipers was flooded by the storm, causing quite a few pools to appear around the course which in turn attracted quite a few shorebirds, gulls and ducks. Highlights below:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">5 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS -- a nice group of birds, all adults still retaining a lot of their breeding garb. These birds were quite jumpy, moving around a bit and finally took off along with the Willet to the northeast. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">40 Killdeer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">3 Semipalmated Plover</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">12 Greater Yellowlegs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">4 Lesser Yellowlegs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2 Solitary Sandpiper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 "Western" Willet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2 PECTORAL SANDPIPER</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">35 Semipalmated Sandpiper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">22 Least Sandpiper </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I was able to view this spot from a couple of different vantage points on Harbor Road on the Southport side, although the course is across the harbor in Fairfield. It is a private club, thus my inability to actually enter it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Other highlights from the area included:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">10 Laughing Gull</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">4 Bank Swallow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Alex Burdo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Fairfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">>From Alex Burdo:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">08/28/11 - Fairfield Country Club -- 5 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER (all adults) that flew off to the Northeast, 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPER and 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPER. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From szagorski at daypitney.com Mon Aug 29 10:28:43 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:28:43 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Brown Pelican, Griswold Pt</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D23C@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I was just talking to Nick Bonomo and he had just gotten a call from</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Glenn Williams and Hank Golet. They found a BROWN PELICAN at Griswold</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Pt, along with 2 Royal Terns and 25 Black Terns.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sara Zagorski</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wethersfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From eyeflight16 at optonline.net Mon Aug 29 13:47:22 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: eyeflight16 at optonline.net (eyeflight16 at optonline.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:47:22 +0000 (GMT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Bridled Tern Westport</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <e5269b8bc6ad.4e5bd0aa@optonline.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Brendan Murtha just called to say that he and his father, Sean Murtha, have a Bridled Tern on Hill Point Avenue which is a road that leads to Compo Beach in Westport. They said that the bird was there when they arrived perched on flotsam floating on the water, and then it flew off for a few minutes, before returning to more flotsam. They said the bird is more towards Sherwood Island. Sean and Brendan had to leave for a?commitment, so anyone who can might want to check Compo Beach, Sherwood Island and?surrounding?areas. As far as I know the bird was still perched on the flotsam when they left. Good luck and post any updates to the list please.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">James Purcell</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Fairfield</span><br />
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F<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">rom eyeflight16 at optonline.net Mon Aug 29 13:53:47 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: eyeflight16 at optonline.net (eyeflight16 at optonline.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:53:47 +0000 (GMT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Royal Tern Fairfield</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <e4888f13b37d.4e5bd22b@optonline.net></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Just had a Royal Tern fly by here on Fairfield beach, heading west.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">James Purcell</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Fairfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From jbeverhart at gmail.com Mon Aug 29 14:26:39 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: jbeverhart at gmail.com (Judd Everhart)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:26:39 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Bridled Tern Westport</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <e5269b8bc6ad.4e5bd0aa@optonline.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References: <e5269b8bc6ad.4e5bd0aa@optonline.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <23B1074E-7D08-4E2B-B3A1-9BD0BE87BE1E@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I note that Peterson's says the Bridled Tern is "to be looked for after hurricanes."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">On Aug 29, 2011, at 1:47 PM, eyeflight16 at optonline.net wrote:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">> Brendan Murtha just called to say that he and his father, Sean Murtha, have a Bridled Tern on Hill Point Avenue which is a road that leads to Compo Beach in Westport. They said that the bird was there when they arrived perched on flotsam floating on the water, and then it flew off for a few minutes, before returning to more flotsam. They said the bird is more towards Sherwood Island. Sean and Brendan had to leave for a commitment, so anyone who can might want to check Compo Beach, Sherwood Island and surrounding areas. As far as I know the bird was still perched on the flotsam when they left. Good luck and post any updates to the list please.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">> James Purcell</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">> Fairfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From bmskua at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 15:08:48 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: bmskua at sbcglobal.net (Brendan Murtha)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:08:48 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Birds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314644928.55253.YahooMailRC@web181318.mail.ne1.yahoo.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Following up with James's report, here are the highlights Sean Murtha and I had </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">the past 2 days-</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sunday-</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Veteran's Park, Norwalk: BAIRDS SANDPIPER - 1 confirmed, a few other possible </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">birds. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Pectoral Sandpiper- 4 or so. The park was flooded, providing great habitat for </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">shorebirds. Tons of peeps were present (Least and Semipalm), plus a lot of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Laughing Gulls, numbering in the hundreds. Missed the Red-necked phalarope. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> Mardi and Towni Dickinson had seen it only minutes before we arrived..</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Calf Pasture Beach, Norwalk- CASPIAN TERN-1, Forster's Tern- 2, plus a handful </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">of unidentified Storm-Petrels way out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Monday-</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sasco Creek Beach, Southport- JAEGER sp., far out, harassing terns. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Compo Hill Area, Westport, where Hillspoint road curves along the shoreline east </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">of Compo Beach - BRIDLED TERN- 1 </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Upon arrival we picked out the bird on a piece of flotsam pretty far out to the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">east, off Sherwood Island (which remains closed). As the flotsam drifted nearer </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">shore the bird lifted off and flew south-westward until we lost it, but later we </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">picked it up again alighting on another piece of flotsam, also to the east but </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">unfortunately no nearer. The bird appeared mainly dark gray with white </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">foreparts, and when it flew, the wings appeared long and narrow with a touch of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">white underneath. While admittedly distant, we felt it was not black enough to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">be Sooty Tern and the wings too narrow to be Sooty or Black Tern. Its habit of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">alighting on flotsam also strongly indicated Bridled Tern. We hope someone else </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">can relocate the bird- if Sherwood Island re-opens, the view may be better from </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Moments later we had a BLACK TERN at the Sherwood millpond, the nearest we were </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">able to park.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> -Brendan Murtha</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://catchingthethermals.wordpress.com</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From cekroth at comcast.net Mon Aug 29 16:20:10 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: cekroth at comcast.net (cekroth at comcast.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:20:10 +0000 (UTC)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Milford & Sandy Pts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1854445877.691124.1314649210660.JavaMail.root@sz0156a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/29, Milford Point with Paul Desjardins, Paul Walters, Buzz Devine and a few others I didn't know: </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">3 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 1 RED KNOT, 2 BLACK TERNS, 1 ROYAL TERN, 1 WHIMBREL. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sandy Point with Paul D, Paul W and Buzz Devine, 2 ROYAL TERNS 2 CASPIAN TERNS. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Cabelas 3:30, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Carl & Catherine Ekroth </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From szagorski at daypitney.com Mon Aug 29 17:04:18 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:04:18 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Milford PT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D23D@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I'm here with several birders, this is the latest report at 5 pm:</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Black-necked Stilt was seen all the way around the point to the right, but then flew back towards the sound and we haven't located it again.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Jamie Myers and Jay Kaplan also saw a Marbled Godwit where the stilt was, but it took off.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Patrick Dugan found a juvenile Sooty Tern that came in off the sound and disappeared over Stratford PT.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Royal Tern still here, 4 Black Skimmers, Peregrine Falcon, forster"s tern, black tern. No sign of the Hudsonian Godwits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sara Zagorski</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wethersfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From kbosch at gmail.com Mon Aug 29 17:23:04 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:23:04 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Jaegers Stratford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CANNUtCZqBybz3MjqEcb13Ri1GGNBitXD9KAMCsmiRd3qN866xg@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2 juv Parasitic Jaegers down the Housatonic as seen from Boothe Park</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hawk Watch site not far behind a southbound Osprey around 430. Sorry</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">for slow post, not easy here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Many good birds last 2 days. Most have been posted but I'm not sure if</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">the Bridled in with the Sooty group was from yesterday in Stratford.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Keep watching! More to come</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">-- </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sent from my mobile device</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Scott Kruitbosch</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Stratford, CT</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From elphick at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 18:11:01 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: elphick at sbcglobal.net (Chris Elphick)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:11:01 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] more from Mansfield (belatedly)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314655861.54673.YahooMailClassic@web81306.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In addition to Mark's notes on ctbirds yesterday, I can add that I had a common tern and two large, dark terns flying south along the Willimantic River at Eagleville Lake after the storm passed (around 4 pm).? Unfortunately, I was watching the white tern which was flying towards me at eye level and didn't see the two big dark ones that were up high until they were practically overhead.? My initial reaction was sooty, but I do not know either species well, so cannot rule out bridled based on the brief, backlit views that I got.? All three birds showed no</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> interest in the lake at all and seemed to be just trying to get to the coast as fast as they could.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Also, Mark hinted at some uncertainty about the least tern at Mansfield Hollow.? Most of the time we were there it was at the far side of the lake, so we were identifying it based only on flight</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> style and its being smaller than the blacks (and white).? Towards dark, probably after Mark had left, we got much better views as it flew towards us, before heading up and south.?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Late in the day we also had two very distant phalaropes (note to records' cmte: we didn't see these well enough for you to accept them ... though I'm pretty confident about the ID).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">The "medium sized all dark bird that was tantalizing but unidentified" that Mark mentioned was never seen again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">This morning, access at Mansfield Hollow was harder due to flooding, but I saw nothing but a young bald eagle from Rte 89.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Chris Elphick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Storrs, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">elphick at sbcglobal.net</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Mon Aug 29 18:58:51 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (pwolter6 at earthlink.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:58:51 +0000</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Long billed Dowitcher-Stratford Marina</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1780301934-1314658844-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1823221893-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/29/11 Stratford, Stratford Marina 12.30 pm at high tide. On the jetty 1 Long billed Dowitcher with 12 Short billed and about 100 Yellowlegs. Access is restricted for 72 hours but we were able to get in while the worker's were on lunch break.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Paul Desjardins and Paul Wolter</span><br />
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Mon Aug 29 20:02:51 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:02:51 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Westport</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <0C766423-E1A7-48BC-9D49-00A98F1D6246@gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">No luck finding the Bridled Tern but did have a Caspian Tern near Compo Beach as well as a Peregrine Falcon.</span><br />
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From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 20:10:52 2011<br />
From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)<br />
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:10:52 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Fw: Some CT Birds<br />
Message-ID: <1314663052.50193.YahooMailRC@web80009.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
I'm forwarding this email dated 8/28 from LI, NY birder, Shaibal Mitra.<br />
<br />
Frank Mantlik<br />
<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra at csi.cuny.edu></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">To: "mantlik at sbcglobal.net" <mantlik at sbcglobal.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sent: Sun, August 28, 2011 7:06:21 AM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: Some CT Birds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi Frank,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">We had tickets for yesterday's early game at Fenway, and along the way of our</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">30-hour circuit of LI Sound, Pat Lindsay and I saw several CT birds. First was a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wilson's SP in e LI Sound, from the ferry, near the NY-CT line, on Friday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Yesterday, driving down 395 we had several flocks of Common Nighthawks (total</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">27) near Danielson, around 5:00 pm. The largest group was about 15 birds, one</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">exit north of Danielson (East Killingly?).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">After dropping off my nephew in Canterbury, we ran down to 95 and raced for</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">home. At exit 43 (ca. West Haven) around 6:30, we had two Hudsonian Godwits fly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">from south to north, directly over us. The birds were in silhouette, but the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">shape, size, and flight style were quite apparent.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Good storm birding!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Best,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Shai</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Mon Aug 29 20:20:01 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:20:01 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Cockenoe Island & offshore</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <CABgXtNfRvKOdxTwrfpxMqUp3zR7zKXT9H+Fzhnnm+GKdLq876w@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">>From Tina Green, Greg Hanisek, John Oshlick and Nick Bonomo:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/29 - Westport, Cockenoe Island - WHIMBREL, RED KNOT, ROYAL TERN, 4</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">BLACK TERNS (including one on flotsam that really got us going for a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">minute), FORSTER'S TERN.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Offshore, in the middle of the sound, we had next to nothing. Even</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">common gulls and terns were tough to come by. Everything of interest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">was onshore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I'll have some Royal Tern pics from today on my blog eventually.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick Bonomo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Wallingford, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">www.shorebirder.com</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 20:25:41 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:25:41 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Milford PT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D23D@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D23D@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314663941.45301.YahooMailRC@web80009.mail.sp1.yahoo.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/29 Stratford, Short Beach (closed due to hurricane, but I obtained access on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">sidewalk called "Wayne's Walk" off Riverdale Dr.), 5:40 pm. With bins, I saw</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">the crowd of birders across the river on the Milford Point sandbar. We</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">communicated by cell phone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tide was low; 1000s of birds - terns, gulls, shorebirds, egrets. Highlights</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">were:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">BLACK NECKED STILT - foraging in shallows, straight out from me, and between</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">concrete "turret" and Stratford Point. Took some digiscope record photos. I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">was able to direct the Milford group who could scope it from much greater</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">distance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, largely still in breeding plumage.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">4 Red Knots.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2-3 ROYAL TERNS.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 BLACK SKIMMER (juvenile)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">4+ BLACK TERNS.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">No sign of any jaegers, though there were 1000+ terns working the river mouth,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">off Stratford Point, and around the corner off Russian Beach (Park Blvd), plus</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">maybe 1500 more resting on the many sandbars and working the east side of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">breakwater.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Frank Mantlik</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Stratford</span><br />
<br />
p.s. It's good to have electricity back (6:45 tonight). I'll post my highlights<br />
from yesterday in another e-mail.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
________________________________<br />
From: "Zagorski, Sara" <szagorski at daypitney.com><br />
To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
Sent: Mon, August 29, 2011 5:04:18 PM<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford PT<br />
<br />
I'm here with several birders, this is the latest report at 5 pm:<br />
<br />
Black-necked Stilt was seen all the way around the point to the right, but then<br />
flew back towards the sound and we haven't located it again.<br />
<br />
Jamie Myers and Jay Kaplan also saw a Marbled Godwit where the stilt was, but it<br />
took off.<br />
<br />
Patrick Dugan found a juvenile Sooty Tern that came in off the sound and<br />
disappeared over Stratford PT.<br />
<br />
Royal Tern still here, 4 Black Skimmers, Peregrine Falcon, forster"s tern, black<br />
tern. No sign of the Hudsonian Godwits.<br />
<br />
Sara Zagorski<br />
Wethersfield<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 20:40:26 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:40:26 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Birds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In-Reply-To: <1314644928.55253.YahooMailRC@web181318.mail.ne1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">References: <1314644928.55253.YahooMailRC@web181318.mail.ne1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314664826.77332.YahooMailRC@web80010.mail.sp1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/29 - Some follow-up comments regarding the report of a Bridled Tern near Compo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Cove. At 2:10 I received a phone call from Julian Hough, alerting me to this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">report. I had just taken my lunch break at Compo Beach ( a delightful sunny</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">day) with binos in hand, and saw little except 1 WHIMBREL migrating sw low over</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">the water.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I promptly drove my truck to the Hillspoint Rd. / Compo Cove area. I saw only 1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">LEAST TERN on a rock; no sign of any floating flotsam, nor any Bridled Tern. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I also called Tina Green, who happened to be just offshore on Nick Bonomo's boat</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">at Cockenoe Island. They came upon a tern on some flotsam, excited at the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">prospects, but it was in fact a BLACK TERN. The winds seemed SW, so Brendan's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">comment that it was drifting east toward Sherwood Is. makes sense.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">After work, I found Sherwood Is. SP closed to entry due to the storm damage.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"> The officer told me the planned opening date is Wed. 8/31 at 8am. By then, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Bridled Tern could be off Carolina.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Frank Mantlik</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Stratford</span><br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
________________________________<br />
From: Brendan Murtha <bmskua at sbcglobal.net><br />
To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
Sent: Mon, August 29, 2011 3:08:48 PM<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Birds<br />
<br />
Following up with James's report, here are the highlights Sean Murtha and I had<br />
the past 2 days-<br />
<br />
Sunday-<br />
<br />
Veteran's Park, Norwalk: BAIRDS SANDPIPER - 1 confirmed, a few other possible<br />
birds. <br />
Pectoral Sandpiper- 4 or so. The park was flooded, providing great habitat for<br />
<br />
shorebirds. Tons of peeps were present (Least and Semipalm), plus a lot of<br />
Laughing Gulls, numbering in the hundreds. Missed the Red-necked phalarope.<br />
Mardi and Towni Dickinson had seen it only minutes before we arrived..<br />
<br />
Calf Pasture Beach, Norwalk- CASPIAN TERN-1, Forster's Tern- 2, plus a handful<br />
<br />
of unidentified Storm-Petrels way out.<br />
<br />
Monday-<br />
<br />
Sasco Creek Beach, Southport- JAEGER sp., far out, harassing terns.<br />
<br />
Compo Hill Area, Westport, where Hillspoint road curves along the shoreline east<br />
<br />
of Compo Beach - BRIDLED TERN- 1<br />
<br />
Upon arrival we picked out the bird on a piece of flotsam pretty far out to the<br />
east, off Sherwood Island (which remains closed). As the flotsam drifted nearer<br />
<br />
shore the bird lifted off and flew south-westward until we lost it, but later we<br />
<br />
picked it up again alighting on another piece of flotsam, also to the east but<br />
unfortunately no nearer. The bird appeared mainly dark gray with white<br />
foreparts, and when it flew, the wings appeared long and narrow with a touch of<br />
white underneath. While admittedly distant, we felt it was not black enough to<br />
be Sooty Tern and the wings too narrow to be Sooty or Black Tern. Its habit of<br />
alighting on flotsam also strongly indicated Bridled Tern. We hope someone else<br />
<br />
can relocate the bird- if Sherwood Island re-opens, the view may be better from<br />
there.<br />
<br />
Moments later we had a BLACK TERN at the Sherwood millpond, the nearest we were<br />
able to park.<br />
<br />
-Brendan Murtha<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 21:45:47 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:45:47 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Irene Birds 8/28</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314668747.18570.YahooMailRC@web80001.mail.sp1.yahoo.com></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/28 Bird Highlights 8/28/2011, mostly from Stratford, during Hurricane Irene:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">9:30 am Oak Bluff Ave. (road leading to Long Beach) - the salt marsh was flooded</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">and a choppy "bay". The causeway was close to being flooded. A flock of 52</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">RED-NECKED PHALAROPES repeatedly flying around in a tight flock for 15+ minutes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> Photos. There were also 15 CLAPPER RAILS (including 2-3 juveniles) swimming in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">open water coming towards Oak Bluff, trying to get to dry land. Several Common</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Terns and Barn Swallows as well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">10:00 - Frash Pond - 4 BLACK TERNS foraging over water for as long as I was</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">10:45 am - Bridgeport - enroute to Seaside Park, a JAEGER species was over my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">car on I-95 at exit 27. I pulled over, viewed it with bins as it struggled</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">south against the strong winds, took a few photos that unfortunately show</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">little. Based on slight size and thin wings, it was either a Long-tailed or a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Parasitic. Once I got near Seaside Park (main entrance closed), I could see the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">bulk of the Park was a lake, and the tide was still rising, quickly flooding the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">road near UB that I was on. I retreated in a hurry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">11:20 - 12:10 - Rt 1 at Housatonic River, in large parking lot of Savin Rock</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Roasting Co. restaurant. I pulled in and saw a SOOTY TERN over the lot, just as</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Charlie Barnard was calling me to tell me. He'd arrived 15 minutes prior.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> Scott Kruitbosch arrived soon thereafter. We were amazed to see a frantic</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">flight of several flocks of terns, against the wind and rain, over a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">storm-swollen river. (Calls were made to other storm-birders, who soon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">arrived.) Species included up to 8 SOOTY TERNS, 1 POSSIBLE BRIDLED TERN, 4</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">BLACK TERNS, 2 FORSTER'S TERNS, 50 Common Terns, 2 fly-by WHIMBRELS, 1 fly-by</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Blue-winged Teal. Several times the Sooty Terns flew over our cars. I obtained</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">good photos, which I'll post sometime soon. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Most of the afternoon was spent clearing fallen tree limbs and dealing with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">minor damage to our deck.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">What a day of storm-birding in CT! I was in frequent phone communication with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick Bonomo, who put even more time in, and had a bunch more great birds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Frank Mantlik</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Stratford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">on 8/29, now that electricity is restored.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From jrhough1 at snet.net Mon Aug 29 21:51:37 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: jrhough1 at snet.net (julian hough)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:51:37 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] storm birds sunday 8/28</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">In-Reply-To: <mailman.7475.1314546249.14234.ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org@lists.ctbirding.org></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">References: <mailman.7475.1314546249.14234.ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org@lists.ctbirding.org></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314669097.22771.YahooMailRC@web82608.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Apologies for the brief email, still without power in New Haven, but wanted to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">get some info out..</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/28 Morningside Drive Area, Milford, with Nick Bonomo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick Bonomo and I had mulled this spot as a good vantage point due to it's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">visibility and height. Nick started his vigil early and had a couple of good</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">birds prior to me getting there (which I'll let him report). It was pretty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">intense as I left my house to meet him. A quick look at the harbor from my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">street revealed no birds.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">As I got to Milford, I decided to pull into the American Legion parking lot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">overlooking the sound as was rewarded immediately with the first bird I saw</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">being an Adult SOOTY TERN over my car!! Fiercely battling the wind, it headed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">out to sea leaving me wet and suddenly awake with adrenalin!</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Nick and I watched from his car together, but birds were few and far between,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">not even local terns or gulls were moving, so any bird that popped into view was</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">likely to be a "goodie". Nick spotted a storm-petrel moving west and thankfully</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I managed to get on it immediately. We both watched it shearing and battling the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">waves, banking to reveal relatively longish wings (not as long as Leach's) and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">an obvious amount of white wrapping around onto the rump. We both agreed it was</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">a BAND-RUMPED PETREL, a species we are both familiar with and was quite a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">startling find. Nick picked up a further WILSON'S PETREL and I had an</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">unidentified dark bird that slipped into a trough and was never seen again.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Savin(?) Roasting Company/Route#1, Startford</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Alerted by Frank Mantlik, Charlie Barnard and Scott Kruitbosch to a few SOOTY</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">TERNS feeding in the bay, we left and shot over there. It was an insane</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">spectacle, at least six SOOTY TERNS were whipping back and forth in front of us</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">along with two Black Terns. AT that point, there must have been a change, since</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">all the birds bucked out of the bay and heading south towards Stratford Point.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Access restrictions to coastal vantage points hurt us in detecting further</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">pelagic birds, especially in light of what other species were being seen in NJ,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">NY and MASS.eg. White-tailed tropicbirds and many Bridled Terns, the latter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">noticeably absent given the reports from neighboring states.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Woodmont</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">AD. SOOTY TERN flying slowly east</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Savin Rock, West Haven</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">AD. SOOTY TERN most likely different from the one above, but can't be sure.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Red-necked Phalarope (1)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">An amazing day in CT for storm birds and hopefully everyone was able to get out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">birding safely. Thanks to all for communicating your finds promptly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From jrhough1 at snet.net Mon Aug 29 21:54:31 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: jrhough1 at snet.net (julian hough)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:54:31 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] 8/29 large terns, Sandy point</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <1314669271.22430.YahooMailRC@web82608.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">12:00pm Sandy Point, West Haven,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">3 CASPIAN (2 ad, 1 juv)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 ROYAL TERN (my first here!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">From jrhough1 at snet.net Mon Aug 29 21:59:42 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">From: jrhough1 at snet.net (julian hough)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Subject: [CT Birds] SUNRISE Birding Walks at Sandy Point, Wed 31st August</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Message-ID: <1314669582.41953.YahooMailRC@web82607.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Due to sporadic access to email and that many are without access to email or</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">power, although I may not be contatcbale, I am planning to lead the bird walk at</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">6pm this wednesday. Those that are signed up or interested, should show up as</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">planned at the parking spot on Beach Drive, West Haven (opposite the now defunct</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Captain's Galley Restaurant).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Thanks,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Julian Hough</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net Mon Aug 29 22:37:02 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net (Carrier Graphics)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:37:02 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] storm at 4:00</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314671822.1479.YahooMailRC@web81801.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Back on line today- Monday Aug 29 -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">On Saturday of the storm at 4:00, went to Barkhamsted and Nepaug looking for</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">birds - through many detours though, and saw nothing at all. Had what looked</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">like 3 dark birds way out at Barkhamsted res, But also saw some wood debris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">floating about as well, so didn't pursue. Bird life was non existent, of which I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">believe was from them hunkering down till the sky becomes quiet once again.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Paul Carrier</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From jim at duganworks.com Mon Aug 29 22:53:26 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: jim at duganworks.com (James Dugan)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:53:26 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Stamford storm birds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <7BCC3016-44AC-4208-BAF5-2EC69ED46046@duganworks.com></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/28/11 - Stamford, Shippan Pt. 9:30AM to 4:30PM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Band-rumped Storm-Petrel at 12:35PM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">4 ad Sooty Terns</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">7 Black Terns</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 Roseate Tern</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">22 Forster's Terns</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">320 Common Terns</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">(500+ Sterna sp)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">3 Jaeger sp</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 juv Red Phalarope</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">2 Marbled & 1 Hudsonian Godwits all in flight together</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8 Purple martins</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">5 Cliff Swallows</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 ragged Giant Swallowtail Butterfly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Patrick Dugan</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Brenda Inskeep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">in part with David Winston</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Stamford</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/28/11 - In addition to the 11 Sooty Terns on Candlewood Lake in New Fairfield that Nick kindly posted for me yesterday, I had 2 Black Terns fly by Girard's Marina, Candlewood Lake in New Milford at 10AM and there were 2 Black Terns (the same?) with the 11 Sootys, seen from 3:30 to 5:30PM. Thanks to my cell phone still working throughout the storm, this herd of terns was also seen by Angela Dimmitt, Wendy Knoth & Angelas friend Linda as well as by my wife Jackie and eldest daughter Sally.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Also thanks to Frank Mantlik for calling the group of birders I was with at Milford Pt this evening with the location of the Black-necked Stilt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Jim Dugan</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">New Milford</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From szagorski at daypitney.com Tue Aug 30 11:08:58 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:08:58 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Brown Pelican at Old Saybrook on Monday 8/29</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D247@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I just heard from Anthony Zemba that he had the BROWN PELICAN yesterday</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">in Old Saybrook while he was at the Dock and Dine location at around</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">11:00 am. He was scanning the Great Island shore and found the pelican</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">resting there. He didn't have a cell phone with him and was unable to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">report it yesterday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">The pelican may still be moving along the coast so those on the shore</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">keep an eye for it. Or it may have flown away. Just wanted people to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">know which direction it had been heading.</span><br />
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sara Zagorski</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wethersfield</span><br />
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From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 11:40:56 2011<br />
From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:40:56 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Windsor<br />
Message-ID: <B4E8019D-18C2-40B5-88AB-3FEB39646B81@gmail.com><br />
<br />
This morning at Northwest Park 4 Common Ravens and a Yellow Bellied Flycatcher.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From david.f.provencher at dom.com Tue Aug 30 11:55:58 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: david.f.provencher at dom.com (David F Provencher)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:55:58 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Migrants to our north</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1E4A9ED453FC3D4E8BE062238B9197F40426A7A33C@DOM-MBX03.mbu.ad.dominionnet.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I spent the last part of last week camping in western Maine with my daughter and a couple of her friends. The trip was cut short by a day thanks to Irene and many of the roads we drove across in New Hampshire on the way home have been damaged and closed by flooding. But getting back to birds, while camping on the shore of Lower Rischardson Lake in Maine I encountered many large flocks of migrant warblers, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Chickadees, Siskins, and others, as well as hearing a heavy morning flight on Saturday morning. I was usually without my bins when I experienced them but I don't think I have ever seen so many Magnolia Warblers in one flock. Friday night while l was in my tent I heard many thrush flight calls overhead, mainly Swainson's, punctuated by the wails of Common Loons on the lake. So, though fairly mundane when juxtapositioned against the storm birds of this week, it's a reminder that the fall songbird migration is kicking into high gear.</span><br />
<br />
And truly OT, if you are ever in Bethel Maine and enjoy well brewed ale, you have to try the Sunday River Brewery's IPA!<br />
<br />
Dave Provencher<br />
Naturally New England<http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From johnmarshall47 at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 13:11:40 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: johnmarshall47 at gmail.com (John Marshall)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:11:40 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Pt, Black Tern, Marbled Godwit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CAOQ4TTV0Tz4CwEe_uaO7so5zWAm6=hyP0ncx1niK0bJyd0iAHA@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">from John Marshall:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">08/30/11 - Milford Point (noon - high tide) -- BLACK TERN, MARBLED GODWIT, 4</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">BLACK SKIMMER</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">John Marshall</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Watertown</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From agriswold at ctaudubon.org Tue Aug 30 13:13:08 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: agriswold at ctaudubon.org (Andy Griswold)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:13:08 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hurricane Report</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <EE843014A138D849A1AAC4DA140948DA0156866F1EBC@mail.CAS.local></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: Andy Griswold</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Location: Cornfield Point, Old Saybrook</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Time: 130PM to 5PM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Birds of Note: Sooty Tern (21 adults - 1 juvenile), Parasitic Jaeger (1 light adult), Great Shearwater (1), Manx Shearwater (1 - missing many flight feathers), Red Phalarope (1 - likely more), Wilson's Storm-Petrel (4), Black Tern (1).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Observations: All birds of note, except for the Black Tern, were seen before 3PM heading into a strong east wind. At about 3PM, the wind shifted from the east to the south (then west) and the parade of birds stopped. I suspect that the birds were smelling the sea and willing to expend the energy to get themselves back there despite the incredible effort needed to fly directly into the wind. Once the wind was from the south, they crossed over Long Island with their noses still searching out the direction of the sea. No birds were seen taking advantage of a west tailwind to help them exit the east end of the sound. No maps, just noses.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From pdlqlt at mac.com Tue Aug 30 14:12:03 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: pdlqlt at mac.com (Ernest Harris)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:12:03 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Cabela's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <C42A7A9A-284C-47EB-9859-215D5ACB28AE@mac.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/29 c. 9:30AM- UPLAND and SPOTTED SANDPIPERS.( Sorry for delay out of communications since Sunday PM; restored short time ago. Ernie</span><br />
<br />
<br />
From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Tue Aug 30 14:17:59 2011<br />
From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (pwolter6 at earthlink.net)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:17:59 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] State Parks re-opening?<br />
Message-ID: <2091695074-1314728364-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1949000447-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
<br />
Has anyone heard when Hammonasset and other state parks will be re-opening<br />
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T<br />
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From szagorski at daypitney.com Tue Aug 30 14:23:30 2011<br />
From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:23:30 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] State Parks re-opening?<br />
In-Reply-To: <2091695074-1314728364-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1949000447-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
References: <2091695074-1314728364-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1949000447-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D24D@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law><br />
<br />
Here is a list of all the state parks that are open:<br />
<br />
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&Q=485320&depNav_GID=1650<br />
<br />
Hammonassett SP is open, but not Sherwood Island SP.<br />
<br />
Sara Zagorski<br />
Wethersfield<br />
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From lk06 at yahoo.com Tue Aug 30 15:12:11 2011<br />
From: lk06 at yahoo.com (lk06)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:12:11 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] 4 nighthawks, Indian Neck, Branford 8/29<br />
Message-ID: <1314731531.78629.YahooMailClassic@web111408.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Last night at 7:38-7:44 pm 4 nighthawks flying above the trees, migrating & feeding. A calm night with neighborhood generators roaring.<br />
<br />
--Lane<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From ghanisek at rep-am.com Tue Aug 30 18:16:32 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: ghanisek at rep-am.com (Greg Hanisek)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:16:32 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] LHP Monday</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <000801cc6762$798161c0$6e02a8c0@internal.repam.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">>From Greg Hanisek</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/29 New Haven, Lighthouse Point hawk watch - The park was closed due to tree damage but I was able to walk in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">There was no notable hawk flight while I was there but other migrants included:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">58 E. Kingbirds, c 100 Barn Swallows, 1 PURPLE MARTIN, 1 DICKCISSEL, and 600 BOBOLINKS. Surprisingly no hummingbirds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">An intersting movement of Ospreys did not conform to a normal migratory event. A steady trickle of birds came down New Haven harbor, mostly 2 or 3 at a time, and fairly low. They appeared to be birds that had been moved inland by Irene and were making their way back to the coast. I had a total of about 30 following this pattern. When they got out toward the Sound they moved off in random directions as if going to fish. They were moving perpendicular to the normal migratory flight line. I had one Osprey following that line rather high that appeared to be a migrant.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe, who was down by the water, saw a Peregrine Falcon catch a bat. It then took it to one of the lighthouse railings for breakfast.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From nbonomo at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 19:23:17 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:23:17 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Arctic Tern report?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <CABgXtNct5QHXjL6tj-qW1zyHrzqEGQWM90gqEg3udTxxM_CaDw@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">According to eBird, a person named Zach Smart reported a single Arctic</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Tern from Milford Point today. I do not have any information on the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">report, but wanted to put it out there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Also, Julian Hough called to say that the American Avocet is still at</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Sandy Pt in West Haven this evening at 7pm.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Nick Bonomo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Wallingford, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">www.shorebirder.com</span><br />
<br />
<br />
From dana.l.campbell at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 19:21:07 2011<br />
From: dana.l.campbell at gmail.com (dana.l.campbell at gmail.com)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:21:07 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawks over Hartford<br />
Message-ID: <4e5d71c2.280d440a.5331.fffff137@mx.google.com><br />
<br />
8/30 Hartford - Downtown and Sheldon/Charter Oak Neighborhood - Hundreds of Common Nighthawks swarming and streaming towards the CT River. From 7:10 to 7:20 I counted over 300 and they are still coming.<br />
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From givenrandy at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 19:38:48 2011<br />
From: givenrandy at gmail.com (Randy Given)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:38:48 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Common Nighthawks near Merrow Road Park<br />
Message-ID: <CABzQ++USpTN6vbjFENHHTFx71O0RT8UsF4Gbjd26RJ752yoAMQ@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
About 6:15pm, an hour before sunset, we were on our way to the dam at<br />
Eagleville Pond to look for Common Nighthawks. While going down 32, I<br />
saw some overhead. We pulled over (1414 Stafford Road, N41 48.840 W72<br />
18.524) and saw around 25! They were all over. There were swarms of<br />
insects highlighted in the setting sun and they were gobbling them up.<br />
<br />
Also saw 2 Red-Tailed Hawks, 4 Eastern Bluebirds, 1 Northern Flicker,<br />
1 Mourning Dove, and around 60 European Starlings.<br />
<br />
We continued to Eagleville Pond, but nothing there. We went back to<br />
the first spot. Everything was gone. Wow, we just made the half-hour<br />
window, I guess -- didn't see any falcons looking for dinner, either.<br />
;)<br />
<br />
Randy Given<br />
Manchester<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From john.oshlic at yahoo.com Tue Aug 30 19:49:57 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: john.oshlic at yahoo.com (John Oshlick)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:49:57 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Avocet - Sandy Point</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314748197.2428.yint-ygo-j2me@web120418.mail.ne1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sandy Point - 1 American Avocet in basic plumage. First seen roosting on New Haven side. It then flew out to the sound side near where the breakwater intersects the sandbar. It was still present and feeding at 7:30 when I left.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">John Oshlick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Hamden</span><br />
<br />
Sorry I couldn't get the word out sooner but it was near dark when I found it<br />
<br />
<br />
From nbonomo at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 20:09:21 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:09:21 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Fwd: American Avocet, Royal Tern<br />
In-Reply-To: <000001cc675d$1a334990$4e99dcb0$@net><br />
References: <000001cc675d$1a334990$4e99dcb0$@net><br />
Message-ID: <CABgXtNddGh7Tvtpc6O=-dyA01mLn06aqrsj2S7LCTvpPdJ73uQ@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Thanks to Buzz for this report.<br />
<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: Buzz Devine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:38 PM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: American Avocet, Royal Tern</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">To: CTBirdReport at ftml.net</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From:? Buzz Devine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">8/30/11 ? West Haven, Sandy? Point --? ?1 AMERICAN AVOCET, ?3 RED KNOT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">(without tags), ?1 ROYAL TERN, between 14:00 ? 15:00 hrs.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Tue Aug 30 20:29:04 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:29:04 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] BLack Terns, Black Skimmers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314750544.80052.YahooMailRC@web80003.mail.sp1.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">>From Frank Mantlik</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">8/30 Stratford, Short Beach Park, 7 - 7:30pm - Like last night, lots of gulls,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">terns, egrets and cormorants at the mouth of Housatonic River at low tide,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">including 2 BLACK TERNS and 2 juvenile BLACK SKIMMERS. ( No sign of the B-N</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Stilt).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">The park was still closed to vehicles, so I again gained access via the sidewalk</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">("Wayne's Walk") off Riverdale Dr. The late afternoon light and calm winds made</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">for a serene and peaceful setting.</span><br />
<br />
From alexanderburdo at mac.com Tue Aug 30 20:54:34 2011<br />
From: alexanderburdo at mac.com (Alexander Burdo)<br />
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:54:34 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Fairfield<br />
Message-ID: <00499DE1-D3C4-4566-B373-DECF01EB96E5@mac.com><br />
<br />
James Purcell and I birded a few spots in Fairfield this morning from around 7:15-11:00 in search of migrants. None of the spots we hit were terribly birdy but we were still able to pull together some good birds including a nice Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at the Birdcraft. Highlights/migrants below:<br />
<br />
Birdcraft Sanctuary:<br />
<br />
1 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER--a really nice bird, my first for Fairfield; seen well in the pondside vegetation<br />
17 Gray Catbird<br />
6 Cedar Waxwing<br />
1 Black-throated Green Warbler<br />
1 Prairie Warbler<br />
7 American Redstart<br />
1 Northern Waterthrush<br />
1 Canada Warbler<br />
<br />
Lake Mohegan Open Space:<br />
<br />
1 Red-eyed Vireo<br />
1 Wilson's Warbler<br />
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak<br />
+<br />
<br />
Hoyden's Hill Open Space:<br />
<br />
1 Pileated Woodpecker<br />
1 Eastern Kingbird<br />
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher<br />
2 American Redstart<br />
5 Common Yellowthroat<br />
+<br />
<br />
Alex Burdo<br />
Fairfield<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From jaybrd49 at aol.com Tue Aug 30 21:35:07 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: jaybrd49 at aol.com (jaybrd49 at aol.com)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:35:07 -0400 (EDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Request for Reports</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <8CE3595598AF5BA-1424-D737@webmail-d022.sysops.aol.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> To the Connecticut Birding Community:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">What an incredible weekend for birds in Connecticut! Hurricane Irene provided what was by far the greatest incursion of rarities in a single day in my time as a birder. Although some may question the sanity of certain individuals staring down a hurricane along the coast, their willingness to brave the elements resulted in a wealth of spectacular reports. Now that the last of the Sooty Terns have likely left us, it is my hope that those who found various shearwaters, petrels, jaegers and other storm driven birds will take pen (or keyboard) in hand and develop detailed reports on their observations. These birders have the opportunity to add immeasurably to our knowledge of Connecticut avifauna, and their reports will go into the archives for future generations of Connecticut birders to study. If you saw any storm driven birds along the coast or inland, I strongly encourage you to send reports to the Avian Records Committee. Reports may be sent to Greg Hanisek, Secretary of the Avian Records Committee of Connecticut (ghanisek at rep-am.com) and to Jay Kaplan (jaybrd49 at aol.com). Additional information on writing reports may be found on the Connecticut Ornithological Association website. This was an unprecedented event and your support is greatly appreciated.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Jay Kaplan, Chair</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Avian Records Committee of Connecticut</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From elphick at sbcglobal.net Tue Aug 30 21:54:58 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: elphick at sbcglobal.net (Chris Elphick)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:54:58 -0700 (PDT)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Mansfield's storm bird history</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <1314755698.76404.YahooMailClassic@web81308.mail.mud.yahoo.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Now that power has returned to least our small part of Mansfield, I took the time to read up on past seabird occurrences in the Storrs area.? The Birds of Storrs (Clark 1999 - available from the fine UConn Coop bookstore or from Steve Morytko on behalf of NOS) reports only two species of tern for the area.? Perhaps surprisingly, almost all of the past tern sightings were of black tern.? Who'd have thunk?? The only other tern reported prior to 1999 was - perhaps even harder to guess - sooty tern (one from Eastford in 1876).? In 2003, I also had a common tern.? The other three species seen Sunday - least, Forster's and Caspian - are all new for the Storrs area.?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Leach's storm-petrel is also new for the area, although two unidentified storm-petrels were seen at Mansfield Hollow after Hurricane Belle in Aug 1976.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">And, the only phalarope records in the Birds of Storrs are a single Wilson's and a red (boy, I wish ours had been less than half a mile away ....).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">So, at least 4 new species for the area, and probably the only time more than 1 species of tern has seen in the area on the same day ... between us we managed 6.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Chris Elphick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Storrs, CT</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">elphick at sbcglobal.net</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From pfavreau at cox.net Tue Aug 30 23:30:18 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: pfavreau at cox.net (pfavreau at cox.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:30:18 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Black Tern, etc</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <20110830233018.EB4QU.1546938.imail@eastrmwml44></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">from Patrice Favreau:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">08/30/11 - Milford Point (midday - high tide) --1 BLACK TERN (basic plumage - first time I've seen one in Basic) , 1 MARBLED GODWIT, 2 or 3 BLACK SKIMMER, 1 Royal Tern, 2 Western Sandpipers among hundreds of Semipalmateds, numbers of Common Tern, Red Knots, Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover, Semi-palmated Plover, Sanderling, Great & Snowy Egrets; Herring, Gr. Black-backed, Ring-billed & Laughing Gulls, 1 Forster's Tern, 2 Long-billed Dowitcher (I'm pretty sure), 1 Osprey, 2 Spotted Sandpipers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Patrice</span><br />
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From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Wed Aug 31 06:11:40 2011<br />
From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (pwolter6 at earthlink.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:11:40 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Tennessee Warblers<br />
Message-ID: <1115387785-1314785580-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2074140073-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
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8/30/11 Branford, Sybil Creek. 4-7pm. Seen from my deck, Tennessee Warbler 2, Yellow Warbler 1, American Redstart 1, Least Flycatcher 1 all feeding in the trees until the neighbourhood Cooper's Hawk came by at seven then the show ended.<br />
<br />
>From Paul Wolter<br />
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From lounsburyd40 at comcast.net Wed Aug 31 06:59:54 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: lounsburyd40 at comcast.net (Joey Lounsbury)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:59:54 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Point 8/30</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <6F6A9377-C4A4-4D2F-958F-82FB7A2B0CF5@comcast.net></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Milford Point 8/30 4:15-6:30</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">1 Red-breasted Merganser</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">2 Red Knot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Numerous Semipalmated Plover</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Numerous Semipalmated Sandpiper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">1 Juv. Black Skimmer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">1 Juv. Laughing Gull</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">1 Black-bellied Plover</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">1 Willet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">My parents did talk to Zach Smart who reported the Arctic Tern. He was about my age (14). I didn't personally talk to him, but I did do a little searching, and all I turned up were Common Terns.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Joey Lounsbury</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Danbury, CT.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">http://www.jlounsburyphoto.com/blog/</span><br />
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From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Wed Aug 31 08:11:55 2011<br />
From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (pwolter6 at earthlink.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:11:55 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sandy Pt Avocet No<br />
Message-ID: <1210802758-1314792795-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-188917883-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
<br />
This morning from 7 to 8 am walked all the way out on the inside (can no longer cross at low tide) and scoped the beach from the entrance to the breakwater. No Avocet seen,but could be out beyond the far bar. Also not a single tern. Northern Harrier, first of the season<br />
<br />
>From Paul Wolter<br />
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T<br />
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From petermgreen at hotmail.com Wed Aug 31 08:42:58 2011<br />
From: petermgreen at hotmail.com (Tina and Peter Green)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:42:58 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sherwood Island SP Status<br />
Message-ID: <BLU145-W233CF126DCBE26C15D6139AF160@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
Sherwood Island SP is still closed. I spoke with a few park workers this morning and they hope to open tomorrow,Thursday morning,but that is not certain. There were many trees down and Sherwood Point was severely damaged,though the 9/11 Memorial was spared.<br />
<br />
8/31/11 -Westport -Compo Beach - a Merlin harassing some ducks on Saugatuck Shores,then continuing west<br />
<br />
Tina Green<br />
Westport<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
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From Kfinnan at aol.com Wed Aug 31 09:01:25 2011<br />
From: Kfinnan at aol.com (Kfinnan at aol.com)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:01:25 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] N. Parulas Goshen<br />
Message-ID: <4e33c.68db0bf8.3b8f8aa4@aol.com><br />
<br />
8/30 in the yard, 2 first fall males<br />
<br />
Kevin Finnan<br />
Goshen<br />
<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From alexanderburdo at mac.com Wed Aug 31 09:46:11 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: alexanderburdo at mac.com (Alexander Burdo)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:46:11 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Arctic Tern report?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In-Reply-To: <CABgXtNct5QHXjL6tj-qW1zyHrzqEGQWM90gqEg3udTxxM_CaDw@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">References: <CABgXtNct5QHXjL6tj-qW1zyHrzqEGQWM90gqEg3udTxxM_CaDw@mail.gmail.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <6ADF3E88-8577-4F32-B5EB-96CFC5647B32@mac.com></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hi All,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">No need to change any plans as this tern ended up being a Common. The short of the long of it is, the observer relied on bill color as the only field mark for the identification, noting that the bird had an all-red bill. However, many Commons loose the black tips by late summer and thus this is what the bird turned out to be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Alex Burdo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Fairfield</span><br />
On Aug 30, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Nick Bonomo wrote:<br />
<br />
> According to eBird, a person named Zach Smart reported a single Arctic<br />
> Tern from Milford Point today. I do not have any information on the<br />
> report, but wanted to put it out there.<br />
><br />
> Also, Julian Hough called to say that the American Avocet is still at<br />
> Sandy Pt in West Haven this evening at 7pm.<br />
><br />
> Nick Bonomo<br />
> Wallingford, CT<br />
> www.shorebirder.com<br />
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From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Wed Aug 31 11:03:36 2011<br />
From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (pwolter6 at earthlink.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:03:36 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] American Golden Plover at Hammonasset<br />
Message-ID: <682848580-1314803096-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-960407640-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
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8/31/11 Madison, Hammonasset State Park 9 am. 2 American Golden Plover in the Nature Center Parking lot. Also 1 immature Tri-Colored Heron in Shell Beach marsh, plus one very bedraggled immature male eider on the beach side. 1 Nothern Harrier, also a juvenile. The Moraine trail is ripped up, passable for some with extreme care. Shell beach is higher and extends into the marsh. West end is closed as boardwalk is damaged.<br />
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from Paul Wolter<br />
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From kmueller at ntplx.net Wed Aug 31 12:02:09 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">From: kmueller at ntplx.net (kmueller at ntplx.net)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:02:09 +0000</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo Golden Plovers and water relief in killingworth. K</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mueller</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Message-ID: <174336381-1314805749-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1587566347-@b12.c19.bise6.blackberry></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">I was finally able to getout for a few hours....still without power but at lest the sump pump has slowed down. I hope everyone is OK from the storm. There is water truck at the Killingworth circle for Killing worth residents. If anyone in Killing worth is still stranded and needs any water let me know.. I will try and help.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">As found. and sighted by others and reported by Paul</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">W. The pair of Golden Plovers (good close up photos)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">were present on the end of the jetty at Meigs with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Common Terns (many banded) and Laughing Gulls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Keith Mueller</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From lcrocco at ctaudubon.org Wed Aug 31 12:01:57 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">From: lcrocco at ctaudubon.org (Louise Crocco)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:01:57 -0400</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Subject: [CT Birds] Clapper Rail</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Message-ID: <EE843014A138D849A1AAC4DA140948DA015686688401@mail.CAS.local></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">While sitting on my deck surrounded by 4 feet of water in Silver Sands in Milford on Sunday, I spotted movement in my large pyracantha. After bringing the spotting scope out, I realized that a Clapper Rail had taken refuge deep within the bush waiting for the water to recede. I don't know how it managed to snuggle into that bush with prickers that are huge and lethal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Louise M. Crocco, Office Manager</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Connecticut Audubon Society</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">1 Milford Point Road</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Milford, CT 06460</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">(203)878-7440 x502</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">lcrocco at ctaudubon.org</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">www.ctaudubon.org</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">http://ctaudubon.blogspot.com/</span><br />
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From rmharvey at snet.net Wed Aug 31 13:34:51 2011<br />
From: rmharvey at snet.net (Roy Harvey)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:34:51 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black-necked Stilt, Baird's Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and American Golden-Plover<br />
Message-ID: <1314812091.26789.YahooMailClassic@web81501.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Passing this along.<br />
<br />
From: Buzz Devine<br />
8/31/11 ? Milford, Milford Point ? 1 BLACK-NECKED STILT (at the end of the point), 1 BAIRD?S SANDPIPER (juv. foraging along the beach near the last house on the point), 1 MARBLED GODWIT, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 5 BLACK SKIMMERS (all juv.), and 3+ FORSTER?S TERNS. All between 10:30 ? 12:00 hrs.<br />
<br />
Roy Harvey<br />
Beacon Falls, CT<br />
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From gswilliams9 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 31 13:49:34 2011<br />
From: gswilliams9 at yahoo.com (Glenn Williams)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:49:34 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] late storm reports<br />
Message-ID: <1314812974.11257.YahooMailClassic@web161313.mail.bf1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
from Glenn Williams:<br />
8/27 -- Stonington, Barn Island - juvenile WHITE IBIS found by Bob and Maureen Dewire still present<br />
w/ Hank Golet<br />
8/29 -- Lyme, Griswold Point (05:30-12:00) - BROWN PELICANs, 2 ROYAL TERNs, 25-30 BLACK TERN, CASPIAN TERN, WHIMBREL<br />
<br />
I did not get out Sunday until after 4pm and seawatched at Ender's Island in Mystic for a while - seeing absolutely nothing.? I guess I was a few hours late.? The goal Monday was to go to Griswold Point predawn to sea-watch and see if anything was coming down the Connecticut River post-hurricane.? I cannot say that anything was exiting from the river, though birds seemed to appear at the point from out of no where.<br />
<br />
Glenn Williams<br />
Mystic<br />
<br />
From kbosch at gmail.com Wed Aug 31 14:12:57 2011<br />
From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:12:57 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] BN Stilt request<br />
Message-ID: <CANNUtCaXPWKDRHQnzDn=mUtqi0x2WowQXy8QA5L=yUync2TRoA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Glad it has been relocated in the same area - if it is at/near Short<br />
Beach or Stratford Point please post that or attempt to contact me<br />
ASAP and I will open the latter up for visitors. SFP is easy<br />
parking/walking to Short Beach of course too and free. It may not be<br />
the WTKI but it's a great one.<br />
<br />
Scott (still without power)<br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
<br />
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From pwolter6 at earthlink.net Wed Aug 31 16:04:01 2011<br />
From: pwolter6 at earthlink.net (pwolter6 at earthlink.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:04:01 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black Necked Stilt<br />
Message-ID: <1221954292-1314821121-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-167290418-@b13.c20.bise6.blackberry><br />
<br />
4pm currently visible through scope from tower at the Miford Audobon Center<br />
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T<br />
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From closcalz at optonline.net Wed Aug 31 16:24:43 2011<br />
From: closcalz at optonline.net (Chris Loscalzo)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:24:43 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sandy Point birds<br />
Message-ID: <64D2D178-C3AA-4CA6-9D3B-BEE4E0C49271@optonline.net><br />
<br />
<br />
1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 4 RED KNOTS. Seen at 11 am.<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
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From johnrmarshall at aol.com Wed Aug 31 17:32:02 2011<br />
From: johnrmarshall at aol.com (John Marshall)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:32:02 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black -necked stic g<br />
Message-ID: <28CD8C48-B03E-4A15-94A1-C46011A48A4E@aol.com><br />
<br />
Milford pt at the end of the point on the river side - black-necked stilt<br />
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<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
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From Asterbunch at cox.net Wed Aug 31 17:36:21 2011<br />
From: Asterbunch at cox.net (Bill Asteriades)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:36:21 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] BN Stilt<br />
Message-ID: <20110831213612.OTSU32549.eastrmfepo201.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net><br />
<br />
<br />
The BN Stilt continues at Milford Point. It appears to be best seen during high tide at the end of Milford Point by the river and marsh (can be viewed from the Audubon platform by looking at the far west end by the river.) At low tide, it has been seen on the Sound mudflats and could still be at the end of Milford Point near the river and marsh.<br />
<br />
Bill Asteriades<br />
South Glastonbury<br />
<br />
Sent from my Droid Charge on Verizon 4GLTE<br />
<br />
------Original Message------<br />
From: Scott Kruitbosch <kbosch at gmail.com><br />
To: "CTBirds" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:12:57 PM GMT-4<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] BN Stilt request<br />
<br />
Glad it has been relocated in the same area - if it is at/near Short<br />
Beach or Stratford Point please post that or attempt to contact me<br />
ASAP and I will open the latter up for visitors. SFP is easy<br />
parking/walking to Short Beach of course too and free. It may not be<br />
the WTKI but it's a great one.<br />
<br />
Scott (still without power)<br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
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From htg1523 at att.net Wed Aug 31 17:40:04 2011<br />
From: htg1523 at att.net (Hank Golet)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:40:04 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Old Lyme<br />
Message-ID: <7BCE459413C249EB8286FEC886DB8C74@D5YDTZ61><br />
<br />
>From Hank Golet<br />
8/31, Old Lyme, Great Island sand bar, BLACK SKIMMER JUV, BUFF BREASTED SP 2, WHITE RUMPED SP 2, PECTORAL SP , PEREGRINE FALCON<br />
<br />
Terns are pretty much gone. Ct River is as brown as I have ever seen it, carrying soil from flooded fields to the north. I also only saw a few egrets. The water is too dirty to see food.<br />
<br />
From melp63 at aol.com Wed Aug 31 17:34:45 2011<br />
From: melp63 at aol.com (Melanie Pearson)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:34:45 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Lost Barn Owl<br />
Message-ID: <A7FBEFB7-E9F3-4CE6-8CE3-228C620D5073@aol.com><br />
<br />
I think this has been posted once before but Luna, the Canton Raptor Care's imprinted Barn Owl, is still missing. I believe she was seen just before Irene in the Burlington/Bristol area but could be anywhere at this point. If you think you have seen Luna contact Teresa at Canton Raptor Care, 860-693-6255. More information and her picture can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Find-Luna-the-Barn-Owl/181119035295163<br />
<br />
Spread the word, the more eyes out there the better!<br />
<br />
Thanks!<br />
Melanie Pearson<br />
New Britain<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From robballinger at sbcglobal.net Wed Aug 31 18:37:24 2011<br />
From: robballinger at sbcglobal.net (Rob Ballinger)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:37:24 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawk flock - Farmington<br />
Message-ID: <1482e7f0-e531-4669-a14f-05085bc364b5@blur><br />
<br />
40+ Common Nighthawks hawking insects over the driving range on Rt 4. <br />
Presumably eating the flying ants that buzzed around our heads as we mini <br />
golfed. Nice to see large flocks of these birds.<br />
<br />
<br />
From elphick at sbcglobal.net Wed Aug 31 18:40:58 2011<br />
From: elphick at sbcglobal.net (elphick at sbcglobal.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:40:58 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Nighthawks<br />
Message-ID: <6CB5DA11-FAA7-4BE9-B120-ADE041145E74@sbcglobal.net><br />
<br />
c 80 nighthawks heading south along the Willimantic River at Eagleville Lake between 6 and 6:30 this evening. I can't stay longer but I expect they'll keep coming until dusk ... quite a few swifts too.<br />
<br />
<br />
From davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net Wed Aug 31 18:51:10 2011<br />
From: davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net (David Provencher)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:51:10 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Preston Nighthawks Swallows Swifts<br />
Message-ID: <003001cc6830$94005370$bc00fa50$@net><br />
<br />
Mid-afternoon along Miller Road in Preston there was a large flock of many<br />
hundreds of Tree Swallows with a few Chimney Swifts and Nighthawks feeding<br />
over a vineyard. It's always cool to see Nighthawks in the middle of the<br />
day.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Dave Provencher<br />
<br />
Naturally New England<br />
<br />
<http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/><br />
http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
From gwcmeier at aol.com Wed Aug 31 19:35:49 2011<br />
From: gwcmeier at aol.com (Gary Meier)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:35:49 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Middlebury Swifts and Nighthawks<br />
Message-ID: <FF40924D-A825-44B6-8007-1B55E09D4B5C@aol.com><br />
<br />
Had an impressive flock of 40-50 chimney swifts and 10 nighthawks pass <br />
through this afternoon.<br />
Gary<br />
<br />
<br />
From philiprusch at charter.net Wed Aug 31 19:44:02 2011<br />
From: philiprusch at charter.net (philiprusch at charter.net)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:44:02 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Windham Airport Nighthawks 8/31<br />
Message-ID: <360f3671.160166.132223a5a4d.Webtop.45@charter.net><br />
<br />
<br />
There was a feeding flock of about 500 Common Nighthawks feeding over<br />
Windham Airport in Windham this evening from 6-7PM. At least 150 of<br />
them were feeding between the level of the dike and the airport.<br />
Definitely one of the cooler birding moments that I have witnessed. I<br />
can't remember ever looking at nighthawks from above.<br />
In addition there were 3 American Kestrels hunting grasshoppers.<br />
<br />
Phil Rusch<br />
Chaplin<br />
<br />
From PJDEGENNARO at aol.com Wed Aug 31 19:51:58 2011<br />
From: PJDEGENNARO at aol.com (PJDEGENNARO at aol.com)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:51:58 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Black-necked Stilt Yes<br />
Message-ID: <571da.67f8beb7.3b90231e@aol.com><br />
<br />
8/31 - Milford Point - with John Marshall and my dad Paul - the<br />
BLACK-NECKED STILT continues at the end of the point where the marsh meets the mouth<br />
of the river. The best way to view this bird is to walk along the beach<br />
until you come across it, but it can be scoped from the tower at the Audubon<br />
Center at times. Also, 1-2 White-rumped Sandpipers and a Peregrine Falcon.<br />
Well, this ends my birding in CT for a while as I'm going off to college <br />
tomorrow. Good luck birding for the fall season everyone.<br />
<br />
Peter DeGennaro<br />
Naugatuck<br />
<br />
From mjwarner at optonline.net Wed Aug 31 20:02:06 2011<br />
From: mjwarner at optonline.net (Mike Warner)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:06 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Stratford:Long Beach Closed<br />
Message-ID: <73CCE925A2BD4B0D8A5DD72C3318CB0A@OfficePC><br />
<br />
<br />
8/31/11<br />
<br />
The DPW crew erecting the new sign said because of the loss of sand on the beach and the amount of sand in the parking lot in which cars were getting stuck, Long Beach will be closed to vehicular traffic until further notice.<br />
<br />
Mike Warner<br />
Wilton, CT.<br />
<br />
From ghanisek at rep-am.com Wed Aug 31 21:58:28 2011<br />
From: ghanisek at rep-am.com (Greg Hanisek)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:58:28 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Irene crash landing<br />
Message-ID: <000801cc684a$a45fc470$6e02a8c0@internal.repam.com><br />
<br />
Quite a yard bird -<br />
<br />
http://blogs.rep-am.com/nature/2011/09/01/hurricane-birds/<br />
<br />
Greg Hanisek<br />
Waterbury<br />
<br />
From ghanisek at rep-am.com Wed Aug 31 22:14:43 2011<br />
From: ghanisek at rep-am.com (Greg Hanisek)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:14:43 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Common Nighthawks<br />
Message-ID: <000801cc684c$e9e601b0$6e02a8c0@internal.repam.com><br />
<br />
>From Greg Hanisek<br />
<br />
8/31 Waterbury - 7 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS feeding around lighted Republican-American tower<br />
<br />
From carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net Wed Aug 31 23:36:25 2011<br />
From: carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net (Carrier Graphics)<br />
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:36:25 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] migration<br />
Message-ID: <1314848185.75819.YahooMailRC@web81801.mail.mud.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Tonight- Wed 31st, from 5:30 to 6, their was some good bird movement in the yard<br />
here-1,000 feet- in Harwinton. I have often commented on how migrating birds<br />
will follow the sun up a Mt in late afternoon on its west side to the top as<br />
they feed and prepare to fly off during the night and migrate on. I believe<br />
tonight was such an event.<br />
<br />
I first noticed bird movement from a Red Cedar tree, then more from a wild<br />
apple tree and large Oak. All were flycatching up from these trees catching<br />
flying insects incl ants. In the half hr without bins, I estimate seeing 100<br />
plus warblers pass through. Most were Immature<br />
<br />
BT Green Warblers and<br />
Redstarts, but some i separated out were:<br />
Blackburnians<br />
1-Yellow<br />
BT Blues<br />
Pines<br />
1-Chestnut-sided<br />
Yellow-Rumps - third in number<br />
1-Black & White<br />
1-Nashville<br />
1 - Magnolia<br />
1 - Im Bay-breasted or Blackpoll<br />
<br />
Also were some Blue-headed Vireo within and about 100 plus Knighthawks and many<br />
C Swifts all going due North!<br />
<br />
<br />
I also visited earlier at Bakersville Swamp seeing only 2 Kingbirds, many<br />
Cedar Waxwing and<br />
1 - Yellow-bellied Flycatcher<br />
<br />
This morn at Colebrook reservoir it was dead, seeing only 4 C Merganser! Didn't<br />
search much, but in the woods it was extremely dead, indicating to me most birds<br />
were staging together somewhere other than were I was. This reservoir which is<br />
lowered very much down in late summer, was completely full from the rains of<br />
Irene! No shorebirds will be putting down here in the mud this fall.<br />
<br />
But for me, I would say, migration has begun............Paul Carrier<br />
<br />
From ctredbird2 at comcast.net Thu Sep 1 00:42:46 2011<br />
From: ctredbird2 at comcast.net (Jamie Meyers)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 04:42:46 +0000 (UTC)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] More nighthawk stuff<br />
Message-ID: <167640585.725965.1314852166781.JavaMail.root@sz0021a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net><br />
<br />
The last two days I haven't been specifically birding, but I'm always birding in one way, shape or form. I noticed what seemed to be more mid-afternoon nighthawk action than usual during migration both yesterday and today. On a trip from canton to Norwich for a baseball game this afternoon I had several smallish groups over rt. 2 in Glastonbury and Marlborough then again in Franklin. When I arrived at Dodd Stadium for the game, around 5:45 or so there was a massive group of Tree Swallows with a number of nighthawks mixed in. What I found interesting is that the group dispersed pretty quickly thereafter, and I only noticed one nighthawk during the game, flying south in twilight around 7:20 or so. I often see them in the last hour or so of daylight more, and if I happen to be at a late August ballgame I usually see a few hunting in the lights of the stadium during the game. I had two doing that at a game in New Britain last week sometime but that's all for that activity this August.<br />
<br />
Obviously a heavy movement of this gorgeous species over the past two afternoons. I would say that I encountered about a dozen smallish groups in my travels yesterday and today, spread out fairly evenly across the state. I've noted a few of the other reports have been of very large flocks, which has not been my personal experience this week. Glad to see that others are seeing them in huge numbers.<br />
<br />
Jamie Meyers<br />
Canton, CT<br />
<br />
From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 06:55:06 2011<br />
From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 03:55:06 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] More nighthawk stuff<br />
In-Reply-To: <167640585.725965.1314852166781.JavaMail.root@sz0021a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net><br />
References: <167640585.725965.1314852166781.JavaMail.root@sz0021a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net><br />
Message-ID: <1314874506.97920.YahooMailRC@web80004.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
And my experience is that this season I've seen a grand total of one (1)<br />
nighthawk so far. It was over my house at the end of the Hurricane day. I<br />
usually would have seen numerous small to medium flocks over my house and/or<br />
along the I-95 corridor during my drive home from work, by now.<br />
It seems the largest numbers have mostly been in northern CT (with the exception<br />
of Greenwich) , and often they've been feeding on winged insects.<br />
Many years ago, I once counted 500 migrating through the Norwalk shoreline from<br />
my deck.<br />
<br />
Frank Mantlik<br />
Stratford<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
________________________________<br />
From: Jamie Meyers <ctredbird2 at comcast.net><br />
To: ctbirds <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Sent: Thu, September 1, 2011 12:42:46 AM<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] More nighthawk stuff<br />
<br />
The last two days I haven't been specifically birding, but I'm always birding in<br />
one way, shape or form. I noticed what seemed to be more mid-afternoon<br />
nighthawk action than usual during migration both yesterday and today. On a<br />
trip from canton to Norwich for a baseball game this afternoon I had several<br />
smallish groups over rt. 2 in Glastonbury and Marlborough then again in<br />
Franklin. When I arrived at Dodd Stadium for the game, around 5:45 or so there<br />
was a massive group of Tree Swallows with a number of nighthawks mixed in. What<br />
I found interesting is that the group dispersed pretty quickly thereafter, and I<br />
only noticed one nighthawk during the game, flying south in twilight around 7:20<br />
or so. I often see them in the last hour or so of daylight more, and if I<br />
happen to be at a late August ballgame I usually see a few hunting in the lights<br />
of the stadium during the game. I had two doing that at a game in New Britain<br />
last week sometime but that's all for that activity this August.<br />
<br />
Obviously a heavy movement of this gorgeous species over the past two<br />
afternoons. I would say that I encountered about a dozen smallish groups in my<br />
travels yesterday and today, spread out fairly evenly across the state. I've<br />
noted a few of the other reports have been of very large flocks, which has not<br />
been my personal experience this week. Glad to see that others are seeing them<br />
in huge numbers.<br />
<br />
Jamie Meyers<br />
Canton, CT<br />
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From semismart9 at aol.com Thu Sep 1 08:12:40 2011<br />
From: semismart9 at aol.com (semismart9 at aol.com)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:12:40 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] LHPP help for 9-6<br />
Message-ID: <8CE36B794660D10-1A90-2284F@webmail-m011.sysops.aol.com><br />
<br />
<br />
Due to changes in School Starting time for Oxford, first day of school for my grandchildren is now Tuesday, September 6th. That is my normal Lighthouse day. I will be in Oxford to see the kids off. Have not missed an opening day for years. Need someone to pick up my day.<br />
<br />
Thanks.<br />
<br />
Bill Banks<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 08:22:29 2011<br />
From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:22:29 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] More Nighthawk Stuff<br />
Message-ID: <64CBA032-E199-4ADE-AEF4-C73AA4358CB1@gmail.com><br />
<br />
Like Frank i also have seen only one Common Nighthawk thus far and this was from my yard in Windsor Locks. i don't<br />
normally see a lot from here but by this time there should have been more. Of course the amount i see is based on<br />
the track they take and in this regard i believe we miss a lot of them in Connecticut despite the large numbers having<br />
already gone through since a friend of mine in Northampton, Massachusetts sees large numbers going due west of him<br />
and so we are missing these.<br />
<br />
From Leslie.Meredith at simonandschuster.com Thu Sep 1 09:05:47 2011<br />
From: Leslie.Meredith at simonandschuster.com (Meredith, Leslie)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:05:47 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] American Redstart pair at Greens Farms Station<br />
In-Reply-To: <167640585.725965.1314852166781.JavaMail.root@sz0021a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net><br />
References: <167640585.725965.1314852166781.JavaMail.root@sz0021a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net><br />
Message-ID: <79EF7891C278C24E8E7DB5580B2B4A6A0137A3B0CD@NYDCMX24.cbs.ad.cbs.net><br />
<br />
This morning and for the previous 2, feeding at the tops of trees.<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org [mailto:ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Meyers<br />
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:43 AM<br />
To: ctbirds<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] More nighthawk stuff<br />
<br />
The last two days I haven't been specifically birding, but I'm always birding in one way, shape or form. I noticed what seemed to be more mid-afternoon nighthawk action than usual during migration both yesterday and today. On a trip from canton to Norwich for a baseball game this afternoon I had several smallish groups over rt. 2 in Glastonbury and Marlborough then again in Franklin. When I arrived at Dodd Stadium for the game, around 5:45 or so there was a massive group of Tree Swallows with a number of nighthawks mixed in. What I found interesting is that the group dispersed pretty quickly thereafter, and I only noticed one nighthawk during the game, flying south in twilight around 7:20 or so. I often see them in the last hour or so of daylight more, and if I happen to be at a late August ballgame I usually see a few hunting in the lights of the stadium during the game. I had two doing that at a game in New Britain last week sometime but that's all for that activity this August.<br />
<br />
Obviously a heavy movement of this gorgeous species over the past two afternoons. I would say that I encountered about a dozen smallish groups in my travels yesterday and today, spread out fairly evenly across the state. I've noted a few of the other reports have been of very large flocks, which has not been my personal experience this week. Glad to see that others are seeing them in huge numbers.<br />
<br />
Jamie Meyers<br />
Canton, CT<br />
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From binskeep at optonline.net Thu Sep 1 09:07:39 2011<br />
From: binskeep at optonline.net (B Inskeep)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:07:39 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Stamford<br />
Message-ID: <1058576661-1314882456-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1530980530-@b13.c11.bise6.blackberry><br />
<br />
9/1/11 6:00-9:00 am - Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary in part with Patrick Dugan and Dave Winston, fairly quiet, but some nice species: Warbling Vireo (1), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Mourning Warbler (1), American Redstart (pair), Wilson's Warbler (1), Northern Waterthrush (2), Yellow-breasted Chat (1), Least Flycatcher (1), 600 Bobolinks in multiple groups flying south.<br />
<br />
Also 8/31/11 4:30-6:30 pm - Quaker Ridge, Greenwich Audubon, in part with Luke Tiller, there was a nice movement of Common Nighthawks and Chimney Swifts, many directly overhead. I wasn't counting but estimate at least 60. The area was still without power which apparently might not be restored until next week.<br />
<br />
Brenda Inskeep in Stamford<br />
<br />
<br />
From hobbitsmama at snet.net Thu Sep 1 09:34:51 2011<br />
From: hobbitsmama at snet.net (Denise Davies)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 06:34:51 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Shearwater?<br />
Message-ID: <1314884091.7063.YahooMailRC@web180107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
On Sunday evening I went down to the beach in New London and saw what I believe<br />
was a Greater Shearwater. I took some photos, though they are not particularly<br />
great, I am hoping someone will be willing to take a look.<br />
Here is the link to one photo. There are 4 in all.<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviessmith/6103157642/in/photostream<br />
<br />
Not in CT but I was also wondering if someone would be willing to take a look at<br />
a photo I took in Florida in March. I believe they are Stilt Sandpipers but<br />
would love any feedback. Here is a link to that photograph.<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviessmith/5574944671/in/photostream/<br />
<br />
Thank you so much!<br />
Denise<br />
hobbitsmama at snet.net<br />
<br />
From paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 11:58:11 2011<br />
From: paul.desjardins2 at gmail.com (Paul Desjardins)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:58:11 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] East Windsor<br />
Message-ID: <7DA567D5-DCA8-40AE-9503-D07F4C223B4D@gmail.com><br />
<br />
This morning at the Flaherty Wildlife Management Area one Orchard Oriole. in over 52 years of birding this is my first<br />
September record!<br />
<br />
From petermgreen at hotmail.com Thu Sep 1 12:07:37 2011<br />
From: petermgreen at hotmail.com (Tina and Peter Green)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:07:37 +0000<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Sherwood Island SP Status<br />
Message-ID: <BLU145-W66CF4D33277B4C7672BD2AF190@phx.gbl><br />
<br />
<br />
Sherwood Island SP is closed and they are unable to say when it will reopen.<br />
<br />
Tina Green<br />
Westport<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <br />
<br />
From skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org Thu Sep 1 12:08:36 2011<br />
From: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:08:36 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Belated AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN 8/29, Fairfield<br />
Message-ID: <EE843014A138D849A1AAC4DA140948DA0156866A2FC0@mail.CAS.local><br />
<br />
CAS staff received a report literally 15 minutes ago of an early Monday evening sighting of an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. It came from Stephanie Carrow who was birdwatching and kayaking in Ash Creek in Fairfield. That is all the information we have. Just another to add to the Irene list...<br />
<br />
I now have power and access to the internet beyond my very taxed BlackBerry! I will take some time to post something later on about the last several days, though most has been mentioned already by myself or others. There are no mega reports coming, don't worry, just a huge tally and some thoughts on a thrilling week of birds.<br />
<br />
========<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Conservation Technician<br />
Connecticut Audubon Society<br />
2325 Burr St.<br />
Fairfield, CT 06824<br />
CAS blog: ctaudubon.blogspot.com<br />
CAS Twitter: twitter.com/CTAudubon<br />
Email: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org<br />
www.ctaudubon.org<br />
<br />
<br />
From szagorski at daypitney.com Thu Sep 1 13:07:39 2011<br />
From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:07:39 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] American avocet, milford pt<br />
Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D27A@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law><br />
<br />
Denise Jernigan called (1:00 pm) to say that there is an AMERICAN AVOCET at milford point, next to the Black-necked Stilt, both found by Mike Warner. They are all away around the point where the marshes are, possibly viewable from the tower.<br />
<br />
Sara Zagorski<br />
Wethersfield<br />
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From sean at seanmurthaart.com Thu Sep 1 14:01:59 2011<br />
From: sean at seanmurthaart.com (sean at seanmurthaart.com)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:01:59 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] N. Waterthrush, Grass Island Greenwich<br />
Message-ID: <1314900119.815512016@webmail.fineartstudioonline.com><br />
<br />
<br />
My first-of-season NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH was at Grass Island in Greenwich harbor today at lunchtime. It was in the swampy woods on the Western side of the "island", which are currently more swampy than usual. It surprised me, as things were otherwise quiet (except for the mosquitoes!). A GREEN HERON continues in the little cove behind the Yacht Club and LAUGHING GULLS are concentrating as usual this time of year throughout the harbor. Quite a few OSPREY too.<br />
<br />
-Sean Murtha<br />
<br />
www.seanmurthaart.com<br />
<br />
From careydavid at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 14:21:34 2011<br />
From: careydavid at sbcglobal.net (David Carey)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:21:34 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Birds and other winged creatures<br />
Message-ID: <31990F1E-3F09-4405-8A0D-2AF5FBC6FAEC@sbcglobal.net><br />
<br />
After Irene it seemed oddly quiet around my yard ( Haddam) Don't know if the birds were blown away, in shock or just afraid of all the noise from the multiple generators. But another winged creature showed up yesterday afternoon; dragon flies, and lots of them, 100+. Just hovering all over the yard. Never have seen that many at one time and I wondered if the drone of the generators had as much of an affect on attracting them as it may have on driving the birds away???<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
From htg1523 at att.net Thu Sep 1 14:38:43 2011<br />
From: htg1523 at att.net (Hank Golet)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:38:43 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Old Lyme<br />
Message-ID: <F3B848B3A4804F95A6AFB1DE2DB0648D@D5YDTZ61><br />
<br />
>From Hank Golet<br />
9/1, Old Lyme, Great Island, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, WHITE RUMPED SANDPIPER 3, PECTORAL SANDPIPER 2<br />
<br />
From kbosch at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 14:41:42 2011<br />
From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:41:42 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Point petrel species<br />
Message-ID: <CANNUtCa+SYdsE1DfRw2PaOhO85VZe3mdEPd7sKf4wK4kn=e_Ng@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
So I am told, keep an eye out here! Stilt and Avocet both near end of<br />
Smith's Point.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
From kbosch at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 15:00:12 2011<br />
From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:00:12 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Cancel petrel at Milford Point<br />
Message-ID: <CANNUtCb5McBgzjgb8pTq74TLmzZKDhF+dSyjK3gPT20Uu8Kcaw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
But these two biggies remain plus Baird's and Western Sandpipers and 2<br />
Western Willet per Mike Warner, Steve Spector, Tina Green, et al. All<br />
birds still offering good looks.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
From cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org Thu Sep 1 15:27:40 2011<br />
From: cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org (Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:27:40 -0700<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Bobolinks at Old Meriden Landfill<br />
In-Reply-To: <mailman.8776.1314882353.14234.ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org@lists.ctbirding.org><br />
References: <mailman.8776.1314882353.14234.ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org@lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Message-ID: <D180D9CFEF67814EA3197C049C4B0441171872ED@VA3DIAXVS6B1.RED001.local><br />
<br />
8/31/11, Landfill in Meriden across from Airport, 7:30am, 10+ Bobolinks were in the grasses/brush.<br />
<br />
8/30, 1 nighthawk over my house in Meriden.<br />
<br />
Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe<br />
<br />
Meriden, CT<br />
<br />
From davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 15:37:18 2011<br />
From: davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net (David Provencher)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:37:18 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Deceased Royal Tern Waterford<br />
Message-ID: <001201cc68de$9068afb0$b13a0f10$@net><br />
<br />
While taking the girls walking at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford<br />
this afternoon I discovered a deceased Royal Tern in the wrack, not<br />
salvageable as a specimen unfortunately. Only other notable birds were Brown<br />
Thrasher and Roseate Tern.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Dave Provencher<br />
<br />
Naturally New England<br />
<br />
<http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/><br />
http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
From jbudrow at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 15:53:01 2011<br />
From: jbudrow at sbcglobal.net (Joseph Budrow)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:53:01 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Deceased Royal Tern Waterford<br />
In-Reply-To: <001201cc68de$9068afb0$b13a0f10$@net><br />
Message-ID: <1314906781.54237.YahooMailClassic@web180212.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Rest in Peace little guy. :(<br />
<br />
--- On Thu, 9/1/11, David Provencher <davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net> wrote:<br />
<br />
From: David Provencher <davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net><br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Deceased Royal Tern Waterford<br />
To: "CTBirds" <ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org><br />
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 3:37 PM<br />
<br />
While taking the girls walking at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford<br />
this afternoon I discovered a deceased Royal Tern in the wrack, not<br />
salvageable as a specimen unfortunately. Only other notable birds were Brown<br />
Thrasher and Roseate Tern.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Dave Provencher<br />
<br />
Naturally New England<br />
<br />
<http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/><br />
http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
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From kbosch at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 15:56:23 2011<br />
From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:56:23 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
Message-ID: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Right now found by Tina Green about an hour ago as we looked through<br />
the bar. Go to the LIS platform and search terns. Confirmed by my<br />
photo I sent to Nick after we studied it awhile. Great looks Tina<br />
strikes again! I'll post photo later.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
From PCOMINS at audubon.org Thu Sep 1 16:18:14 2011<br />
From: PCOMINS at audubon.org (Comins, Patrick)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:18:14 -0700<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
In-Reply-To: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><br />
References: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <C4094409-6902-48D0-9DE3-AD4ABEA9E571@audubon.org><br />
<br />
Does that make 11 species of tern this week? Has that ever happened before?<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:56 PM, "Scott Kruitbosch" <kbosch at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
> Right now found by Tina Green about an hour ago as we looked through<br />
> the bar. Go to the LIS platform and search terns. Confirmed by my<br />
> photo I sent to Nick after we studied it awhile. Great looks Tina<br />
> strikes again! I'll post photo later.<br />
><br />
> --<br />
> Sent from my mobile device<br />
><br />
> Scott Kruitbosch<br />
> Stratford, CT<br />
><br />
> _______________________________________________<br />
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From davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 16:59:43 2011<br />
From: davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net (David Provencher)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:59:43 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
In-Reply-To: <C4094409-6902-48D0-9DE3-AD4ABEA9E571@audubon.org><br />
References: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><C4094409-6902-48D0-9DE3-AD4ABEA9E571@audubon.org><br />
Message-ID: <001e01cc68ea$2007f490$6017ddb0$@net><br />
<br />
I'm pretty sure that is a first. What did we miss, Arctic? After that we'd<br />
need a Noody or an Elegant or a Whiskered...<br />
<br />
Dave Provencher<br />
<br />
Naturally New England<br />
http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
[mailto:ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org] On Behalf Of Comins, Patrick<br />
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:18 PM<br />
To: Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Cc: CTBirds<br />
Subject: Re: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
<br />
Does that make 11 species of tern this week? Has that ever happened before?<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPhone<br />
<br />
On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:56 PM, "Scott Kruitbosch" <kbosch at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
> Right now found by Tina Green about an hour ago as we looked through<br />
> the bar. Go to the LIS platform and search terns. Confirmed by my<br />
> photo I sent to Nick after we studied it awhile. Great looks Tina<br />
> strikes again! I'll post photo later.<br />
><br />
> --<br />
> Sent from my mobile device<br />
><br />
> Scott Kruitbosch<br />
> Stratford, CT<br />
><br />
> _______________________________________________<br />
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From nbonomo at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 17:06:04 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:06:04 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
In-Reply-To: <001e01cc68ea$2007f490$6017ddb0$@net><br />
References: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><C4094409-6902-48D0-9DE3-AD4ABEA9E571@audubon.org><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><001e01cc68ea$2007f490$6017ddb0$@net><br />
Message-ID: <CABgXtNc4-spAEMzGUfaiO=Gnb7Wwtu+C=v7HBvWiKMQmURyhig@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
I don't recall a Sandwich Tern with this storm, though maybe I'm<br />
suffering from information overload.<br />
<br />
Nick Bonomo<br />
<br />
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:59 PM, David Provencher<br />
<davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net> wrote:<br />
> I'm pretty sure that is a first. What did we miss, Arctic? After that we'd<br />
> need a Noody or an Elegant or a Whiskered...<br />
><br />
> Dave Provencher<br />
><br />
> Naturally New England<br />
> http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
><br />
> -----Original Message-----<br />
> From: ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
> [mailto:ctbirds-bounces at lists.ctbirding.org] On Behalf Of Comins, Patrick<br />
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:18 PM<br />
> To: Scott Kruitbosch<br />
> Cc: CTBirds<br />
> Subject: Re: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
><br />
> Does that make 11 species of tern this week? ?Has that ever happened before?<br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
><br />
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:56 PM, "Scott Kruitbosch" <kbosch at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
><br />
>> Right now found by Tina Green about an hour ago as we looked through<br />
>> the bar. Go to the LIS platform and search terns. Confirmed by my<br />
>> photo I sent to Nick after we studied it awhile. Great looks Tina<br />
>> strikes again! I'll post photo later.<br />
>><br />
>> --<br />
>> Sent from my mobile device<br />
>><br />
>> Scott Kruitbosch<br />
>> Stratford, CT<br />
>><br />
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From cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org Thu Sep 1 17:13:12 2011<br />
From: cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org (Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:13:12 -0700<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] State Parks Open for Free over Labor Day Weekend<br />
Message-ID: <D180D9CFEF67814EA3197C049C4B0441171873A7@VA3DIAXVS6B1.RED001.local><br />
<br />
CT State Parks access fee will be waived over Labor Day Weekend.<br />
See http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=4013&Q=486060 for more details.<br />
<br />
<br />
Corrie Folosom-O'Keefe<br />
<br />
IBA Coordinator<br />
<br />
Audubon Connecticut<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 17:13:42 2011<br />
From: davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net (David Provencher)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:13:42 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
In-Reply-To: <CABgXtNc4-spAEMzGUfaiO=Gnb7Wwtu+C=v7HBvWiKMQmURyhig@mail.gmail.com><br />
References: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><C4094409-6902-48D0-9DE3-AD4ABEA9E571@audubon.org><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><001e01cc68ea$2007f490$6017ddb0$@net><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><CABgXtNc4-spAEMzGUfaiO=Gnb7Wwtu+C=v7HBvWiKMQmURyhig@mail.gmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <001f01cc68ec$075ae630$1610b290$@net><br />
<br />
Information overload for me too. I thought there was a Sandwich reported<br />
from CT but I may be thinking of NY or RI. The RI list posted "crippling"<br />
(as the Brits say) photos of a Sandwich Tern. One miss for CT was<br />
Tropicbird. One or two were reported from the Quabbin in central Mass. That<br />
bird had to have been blown across CT.<br />
<br />
Dave Provencher<br />
<br />
Naturally New England<br />
http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: Nick Bonomo [mailto:nbonomo at gmail.com]<br />
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:06 PM<br />
To: David Provencher<br />
Cc: Comins, Patrick; Scott Kruitbosch; CTBirds<br />
Subject: Re: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
<br />
I don't recall a Sandwich Tern with this storm, though maybe I'm<br />
suffering from information overload.<br />
<br />
Nick Bonomo<br />
<br />
><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From nbonomo at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 17:23:14 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:23:14 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
In-Reply-To: <001f01cc68ec$075ae630$1610b290$@net><br />
References: <CANNUtCaEKZVeM_x13qEwhpz+j1Pi1+kJTsmW0usrB0+5YvegKw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><C4094409-6902-48D0-9DE3-AD4ABEA9E571@audubon.org><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><001e01cc68ea$2007f490$6017ddb0$@net><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><CABgXtNc4-spAEMzGUfaiO=Gnb7Wwtu+C=v7HBvWiKMQmURyhig@mail.gmail.com><br />
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Message-ID: <CABgXtNdh6Kjb8W8yVZii5fhcUKTQ9t9mgbzA1oyniTGRA2UOjg@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
In total this storm produced double-digit WT Tropicbirds, most alive<br />
and apparently well, from NJ/DE to New Hampshire. New Hampshire's was<br />
picked up weakened and soon died apparently. I'm a bit surprised<br />
nobody hit the jackpot with that one, but overall CT did very, very,<br />
very well with this storm (in the bird department) despite a slightly<br />
further west landfall than might have been expected.<br />
<br />
I think we also may have missed the boat with the inland bodies of<br />
water closest to the storm's track. I wonder if any large bodies in<br />
the Salisbury area were birded hard during and immediately after the<br />
storm, when the rarities were being seen. This is where the center of<br />
circulation passed over CT. That's probably where a tropicbird would<br />
have been most likely.<br />
<br />
Nick<br />
<br />
<br />
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:13 PM, David Provencher<br />
<davidprovencher at sbcglobal.net> wrote:<br />
> Information overload for me too. I thought there was a Sandwich reported<br />
> from CT but I may be thinking of NY or RI. The RI list posted "crippling"<br />
> (as the Brits say) photos of a Sandwich Tern. One miss for CT was<br />
> Tropicbird. One or two were reported from the Quabbin in central Mass. That<br />
> bird had to have been blown across CT.<br />
><br />
> Dave Provencher<br />
><br />
> Naturally New England<br />
> http://naturallynewengland.blogspot.com/<br />
><br />
> -----Original Message-----<br />
> From: Nick Bonomo [mailto:nbonomo at gmail.com]<br />
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:06 PM<br />
> To: David Provencher<br />
> Cc: Comins, Patrick; Scott Kruitbosch; CTBirds<br />
> Subject: Re: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN MILFORD PT<br />
><br />
> I don't recall a Sandwich Tern with this storm, though maybe I'm<br />
> suffering from information overload.<br />
><br />
> Nick Bonomo<br />
><br />
>><br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
<br />
<br />
From nbonomo at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 17:43:40 2011<br />
From: nbonomo at gmail.com (Nick Bonomo)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:43:40 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] extralimital: Magnificent Frigatebird on CT River in New<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hampshire<br />
Message-ID: <CABgXtNc_T_0TYBGLxKRri01NPmHFy9RMHJXC-GrqyBf0-Rw0Sg@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
See below. Could conceivably follow the river south through Connecticut.<br />
<br />
Nick<br />
<br />
Subject: Magnificent Frigatebird in Hanover!!!!!!!!<br />
From: Steve Mirick <smirick AT comcast.net><br />
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:39:38 -0400<br />
<br />
I just received a 2nd hand report from Marshall Iliff, that Spencer<br />
Hardy texted him to report a Magnificent Frigatebird along the<br />
Connecticut River in Hanover. Presumably very recently. Possibly this<br />
bird might follow the river southward, so this is a heads up to all<br />
birders in the river valley to get out this evening or tomorrow morning.<br />
<br />
This, like the tropicbird, would be a first state record.<br />
<br />
Steve Mirick<br />
Bradford, MA<br />
<br />
<br />
From szagorski at daypitney.com Thu Sep 1 17:46:13 2011<br />
From: szagorski at daypitney.com (Zagorski, Sara)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:46:13 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Brown Pelican milford pt<br />
Message-ID: <7499C9123EEFED4B97CA7D037608A23A06C7D27E@DPMAIL01.dpllp.law><br />
<br />
Being seen on sandbar now! 5:45 pm<br />
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From skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org Thu Sep 1 17:46:24 2011<br />
From: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:46:24 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] GULL-BILLED TERN photo/status<br />
Message-ID: <EE843014A138D849A1AAC4DA140948DA0156866A2FCB@mail.CAS.local><br />
<br />
On the tern count, no Sandwich this week in my tired brain...but this *YEAR* in the Housatonic alone I've had Common, Least, Forster's, Roseate, Black, Sooty, Bridled, Sandwich, Caspian, Royal, and Gull-billed. 11. Whoa!<br />
<br />
Here is the now infamous Gull-billed Tern photo via my BlackBerry: http://ctaudubon.blogspot.com/2011/09/irene-birds-1-gull-billed-tern-black.html<br />
<br />
Plus a couple bad ones of the BN Stilt and Avocet. This is the only Gull-billed Tern shot besides a few poor previous digiscope attempts by me prior to my departure at ~4:50. We could not relocate it shortly after I posted; the terns come up a lot of course and there are many shorebirds and gulls out there, a Peregrine, plus some of terns are coming off of the group to go feed elsewhere as the tide drops.<br />
<br />
Keep searching there and around the mouth of the river and keep it coming my friends. I guess I'll summarize my sightings when this finally calms down, hopefully not for a week or two. Our options are seemingly limitless right now.<br />
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Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Conservation Technician<br />
Connecticut Audubon Society<br />
2325 Burr St.<br />
Fairfield, CT 06824<br />
CAS blog: ctaudubon.blogspot.com<br />
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Email: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org<br />
www.ctaudubon.org<br />
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From skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org Thu Sep 1 17:47:11 2011<br />
From: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:47:11 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] BROWN PELICAN MILFORD POINT RIGHT NOW<br />
Message-ID: <EE843014A138D849A1AAC4DA140948DA0156866A2FCC@mail.CAS.local><br />
<br />
Seriously, on the bar on the Milford side on the LIS via a call from Tina Green literally as I type this, wow!!!<br />
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========<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Conservation Technician<br />
Connecticut Audubon Society<br />
2325 Burr St.<br />
Fairfield, CT 06824<br />
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CAS Twitter: twitter.com/CTAudubon<br />
Email: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org<br />
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<br />
<br />
From robben99 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 17:53:55 2011<br />
From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:53:55 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] COMING DOWN THE CT RIVER: Magnificent Frigatebird<br />
In-Reply-To: <CANpJbq3Y_fxQP5t6J658+-rYeSXKp47NQFujEjcV2J_VkoQ1jw@mail.gmail.com><br />
References: <CANpJbq3Y_fxQP5t6J658+-rYeSXKp47NQFujEjcV2J_VkoQ1jw@mail.gmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <CANpJbq3yRvA7CnLQTqYcbA=OMQ4Rt7QvW-=UnEEatQmDz=utmw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
><br />
> HEADS-UP, literally!!!<br />
><br />
> Tom Robben<br />
> Glastonbury CT<br />
><br />
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
> From: Steve Mirick <smirick at comcast.net><br />
> Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:39 PM<br />
> Subject: Magnificent Frigatebird in Hanover!!!!!!!!<br />
> To: "NH.Birds" <nhbirds at googlegroups.com><br />
><br />
><br />
> I just received a 2nd hand report from Marshall Iliff, that Spencer Hardy<br />
> texted him to report a Magnificent Frigatebird along the Connecticut River<br />
> in Hanover. Presumably very recently. Possibly this bird might follow the<br />
> river southward, so this is a heads up to all birders in the river valley to<br />
> get out this evening or tomorrow morning.<br />
><br />
> This, like the tropicbird, would be a first state record.<br />
><br />
> Steve Mirick<br />
> Bradford, MA<br />
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From cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org Thu Sep 1 17:07:03 2011<br />
From: cfolsom-okeefe at audubon.org (Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:07:03 -0700<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] State Parks Open for Free over Labor Day Weekend<br />
Message-ID: <D180D9CFEF67814EA3197C049C4B0441171873A2@VA3DIAXVS6B1.RED001.local><br />
<br />
See below, CT State Park fees will be waived Labor Day weekend.<br />
<br />
<br />
Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe<br />
<br />
IBA Coordinator<br />
<br />
Audubon CT<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
State Parks and Beaches Open for Free Friday Through Monday<br />
At Direction of Governor Malloy<br />
DEEP says more parks opening as storm recovery efforts move forward<br />
<br />
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) says admission to state parks and beaches that are open for the Labor Day holiday weekend will be free.<br />
<br />
"At the direction of Governor Malloy we are waiving admission fees for the holiday weekend -<br />
starting Friday - and opening our gates to park visitors free of charge," said DEEP Commissioner Daniel C. Esty. "We know there are still many residents of our state waiting for the power to come back on and still working to recover from the storm. But, we hope that as many people as possible will take advantage of the Governor's offer and get outside to enjoy a relaxing day at one of our parks over the holiday."<br />
<br />
"With the hard work of DEEP park staff, I am pleased to note that close to 50 state parks and several of our campgrounds have already reopened," Commissioner Esty said. "In addition, we are also reopening eight state park beaches today as a result of good results we received from water quality tests."<br />
<br />
The free admission to state parks and beaches applies only through Labor Day and does not apply to state park campgrounds, where normal camping fees will be charged. At some parks that are open, some services may not be available and some areas will be marked as off limits due to storm damage<br />
<br />
A complete list of state parks, state park beaches and state park campgrounds that are open is available at: www.ct.gov/Irene<http://www.ct.gov/Irene>. The list is updated several times a day as power comes on, damage is cleared and parks are deemed safe to reopen.<br />
<br />
Among the state parks currently open across Connecticut, are Hammonasset Beach, Peoples State Forest, Squantz Pond, Stratton Brook, and Fort Trumbull State Park.<br />
<br />
Rocky Neck State Park and the beach there is expected to open tomorrow at noon. The campground will open at 1 p.m. The campground at Hammonasset will also open at that time.<br />
<br />
Other campgrounds that are open include Devil's Hopyard, Hopeville Pond, Kettletown and River Camping Sites at River Highlands, Gillette, Hurd, and Selden Neck Island State Parks.<br />
Advance recommendations for camping this weekend are necessary for most locations. Reservation can be made online at www.reserveamerica.com<http://www.reserveamerica.com><br />
<br />
Eight of the 23 state park beach swim areas are also open. They are Gay City, Burr Pond, Hammonasset Beach, Lake Waramaug, Mt. Tom, Pattaconk, Squantz Pond, Stratton Brook<br />
<br />
With additional water quality test results expected tomorrow, it is possible additional beaches will be open for the weekend.<br />
<br />
DEEP reminds state park beach-goers to be aware that with summer winding down and many lifeguards going back to school there may be a reduced number of lifeguards at some locations this weekend.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Dennis Schain<br />
Communications Director<br />
Conn. Dept. of Energy & Environmental Protection<br />
Phone: 860-424-3110<br />
Cell: 860-462-3468<br />
Fax: 860-424-4053<br />
dennis.schain at ct.gov<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From robben99 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 17:50:59 2011<br />
From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:50:59 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] COMING DOWN THE CT RIVER: Magnificent Frigatebird<br />
Message-ID: <CANpJbq3Y_fxQP5t6J658+-rYeSXKp47NQFujEjcV2J_VkoQ1jw@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
HEADS-UP, literally!!!<br />
<br />
Tom Robben<br />
Glastonbury CT<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Steve Mirick <smirick at comcast.net><br />
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:39 PM<br />
Subject: Magnificent Frigatebird in Hanover!!!!!!!!<br />
To: "NH.Birds" <nhbirds at googlegroups.com><br />
<br />
<br />
I just received a 2nd hand report from Marshall Iliff, that Spencer Hardy<br />
texted him to report a Magnificent Frigatebird along the Connecticut River<br />
in Hanover. Presumably very recently. Possibly this bird might follow the<br />
river southward, so this is a heads up to all birders in the river valley to<br />
get out this evening or tomorrow morning.<br />
<br />
This, like the tropicbird, would be a first state record.<br />
<br />
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Bradford, MA<br />
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From kbosch at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 18:27:27 2011<br />
From: kbosch at gmail.com (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:27:27 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Brown Pelican update<br />
Message-ID: <CANNUtCZiZO2rNwy8kwod7NmY89JqU3Z=mGTszp8NCz4hWtqm1Q@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
It is sitting on a bar in the mouth of the Housatonic in the middle<br />
large one. You can likely see it from Stratford well and Milford of<br />
course.<br />
<br />
--<br />
Sent from my mobile device<br />
<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Stratford, CT<br />
<br />
<br />
From dave at whitememorialcc.org Thu Sep 1 18:38:15 2011<br />
From: dave at whitememorialcc.org (Dave Rosgen)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:38:15 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Philadelphia Vireo in Litchfield;<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Common Nighthawks in Winchester<br />
Message-ID: <000001cc68f7$d8319280$8894b780$@whitememorialcc.org><br />
<br />
>From Dave Rosgen:<br />
<br />
9/1/11 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Mattatuck Trail at<br />
Chickadee Bridge) - 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO at 6:15 p.m.<br />
<br />
(White Memorial's Interpretive Trail) - 2 family groups of Brown Creepers<br />
totaling 9 birds<br />
<br />
(White Memorial's Ongley Pond Trail) - 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; 1 Common<br />
Nighthawk overhead<br />
<br />
>From Dave Rosgen, w/ Carol, Paul & Paul James Parent, et. al.:<br />
<br />
8/31/11 - Winchester, Laurel Way - 139 Common Nighthawks passed overhead<br />
between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.; Also, family groups of 4 Common Ravens, 3<br />
Blackburnian Warblers, & 3 Purple Finches at Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary<br />
<br />
Platt Hill Rd. (Platt Hill S.P.) - 59 Common Nighthawks passed overhead<br />
between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.<br />
<br />
<br />
From ablock22168 at yahoo.com Thu Sep 1 19:25:47 2011<br />
From: ablock22168 at yahoo.com (Andrew Block)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:25:47 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Gull-billed Tern, Avocet, Stilt,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>& Bonapartes Gull at MIlford Pt.<br />
Message-ID: <1314919547.48602.YahooMailNeo@web114617.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
9/1/11 - Milford Pt., Milford, CT<br />
?<br />
Observers:? Andrew Block<br />
Time:?3pm to 5:30pm<br />
?<br />
many Double-crested Cormorants<br />
6+ Great Egrets<br />
12+ Snowy Egrets<br />
2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons<br />
many Black-bellied Plovers<br />
many Semipalmated Plovers<br />
3 American Oystercatchers<br />
1 BLACK-NECKED STILT<br />
1 AMERICAN AVOCET<br />
4 Spotted Sandpipers<br />
several Ruddy Turnstones<br />
several Sanderlings<br />
many Least Sandpipers<br />
many Semipalmated Sandpipers<br />
several Short-billed Dowitchers<br />
all of the usual gulls<br />
1 BONAPARTE'S GULL (juv.)<br />
all the usual terns<br />
1 GULL-BILLED TERN<br />
3 Monk Parakeets<br />
?<br />
I knew I'd miss the pelican and by only a few minutes!? I'll get it someday.<br />
?<br />
Andrew<br />
<br />
Andrew v. F. Block<br />
Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist<br />
37 Tanglewylde Avenue<br />
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131<br />
Phone: 914-337-1229;?Fax: 914-771-8036<br />
<br />
From mjwarner at optonline.net Thu Sep 1 19:41:39 2011<br />
From: mjwarner at optonline.net (Mike Warner)<br />
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:41:39 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford; Many Birds<br />
Message-ID: <F4672988EA7644F89FE6DF0508B59B61@OfficePC><br />
<br />
<br />
9/1/11 Milford Point - American Avocet, Black-necked Stilt, Bairds Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Gull-billed Tern, Forsters Tern, Bonapartes Gull.<br />
<br />
Most of the day was spent at Milford Point today and I saw some very unique birds, some for the first time. Many thanks to all the birders present today, it was quite a day. More and more birds kept arriving and I too just missed seeing the Brown Pelican. Currently, there are many species and numbers of birds there. <br />
<br />
Mike Warner<br />
Wilton, CT.<br />
<br />
From robben99 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 20:21:06 2011<br />
From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 20:21:06 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] COMING DOWN THE CT RIVER: MAYBE a Frigatebird<br />
Message-ID: <CANpJbq0w692k73_ei3cSJQrowfxHyw5xmknu3coewja8POaucA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
Since the initial alert today, the first-hand viewer of the alleged<br />
Frigatebird has provided his first written report, and in it he expresses a<br />
reduced certainty of his own identification of the bird.<br />
<br />
If you go to this location with your browser...<br />
http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NHBD.html#1314917959<br />
you can read his own first hand report, as of 6:54pm, and decide for<br />
yourself if you want to monitor the CT river tomorrow morning.<br />
<br />
This second-hand report initially came to us via Marshall Iliff and Steve<br />
Mirick, who are both absolutely TOP birders, which is why we jumped on<br />
Steve's post so quickly. This still might be a frigatebird, but at this<br />
point we just dont know. Given the number of rare birds caused by Irene<br />
since sunday, anything is possible!<br />
<br />
Tom Robben<br />
Glastonbury CT<br />
<br />
<br />
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Robben <robben99 at gmail.com> wrote:<br />
<br />
> HEADS-UP, literally!!!<br />
>><br />
>> Tom Robben<br />
>> Glastonbury CT<br />
>><br />
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
>> From: Steve Mirick <smirick at comcast.net><br />
>> Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:39 PM<br />
>> Subject: Magnificent Frigatebird in Hanover!!!!!!!!<br />
>> To: "NH.Birds" <nhbirds at googlegroups.com><br />
>><br />
>><br />
>> I just received a 2nd hand report from Marshall Iliff, that Spencer Hardy<br />
>> texted him to report a Magnificent Frigatebird along the Connecticut River<br />
>> in Hanover. Presumably very recently. Possibly this bird might follow the<br />
>> river southward, so this is a heads up to all birders in the river valley to<br />
>> get out this evening or tomorrow morning.<br />
>><br />
>> This, like the tropicbird, would be a first state record.<br />
>><br />
>> Steve Mirick<br />
>> Bradford, MA<br />
>><br />
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From skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org Thu Sep 1 20:49:48 2011<br />
From: skruitbosch at ctaudubon.org (Scott Kruitbosch)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 20:49:48 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Brown Pelican record shots/information<br />
Message-ID: <EE843014A138D849A1AAC4DA140948DA0156866A2FCF@mail.CAS.local><br />
<br />
I added a couple rough Brown Pelican record shots once again via BlackBerry/scope to the end of the Gull-billed Tern photo post: http://ctaudubon.blogspot.com/2011/09/irene-birds-1-gull-billed-tern-black.html<br />
<br />
Around sunset we saw the Brown Pelican fishing off Stratford Point and sitting on bars near it. I would guess this is the best area to start tomorrow, but any vantage point of the Housatonic mouth should do with a bird like this. I make no guarantees of getting there before sunrise to open up Stratford Point - it's been a long 10 or so days as I'm sure it has been for many of you - but you are always free to park in the dirt pulloff near the property on Prospect Drive as the fishermen do and walk to the beach along the fence. One would have had great views of it tonight from this area.<br />
<br />
Right now I basically assume the hits are going to keep coming. Those four species at Milford Point today represented one of the best I think you could imagine for one spot in Connecticut. Adding in things like Baird's and Western Sandpipers, 4 Whimbrels tonight, 2 "western" Willets, plus all of the "regular" amazing birds and you did not know where to look. Poor Gallo.<br />
<br />
========<br />
Scott Kruitbosch<br />
Conservation Technician<br />
Connecticut Audubon Society<br />
2325 Burr St.<br />
Fairfield, CT 06824<br />
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From dennisvz at optonline.net Thu Sep 1 20:51:59 2011<br />
From: dennisvz at optonline.net (Dennis Varza)<br />
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:51:59 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Shearwater? Brown Boobie?<br />
In-Reply-To: <1314884091.7063.YahooMailRC@web180107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
References: <1314884091.7063.YahooMailRC@web180107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><br />
Message-ID: <0E2AD141-5FFD-40EA-912C-9BFCBF34F1E0@optonline.net><br />
<br />
Hi Folks<br />
<br />
You experts should take a look at Denise's Photos.<br />
<br />
It looks a lot to me like a brown booby.<br />
<br />
Dennis<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Denise Davies wrote:<br />
<br />
> Hello,<br />
> On Sunday evening I went down to the beach in New London and saw <br />
> what I believe<br />
> was a Greater Shearwater. I took some photos, though they are not <br />
> particularly<br />
> great, I am hoping someone will be willing to take a look.<br />
> Here is the link to one photo. There are 4 in all.<br />
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviessmith/6103157642/in/photostream<br />
><br />
> Not in CT but I was also wondering if someone would be willing to <br />
> take a look at<br />
> a photo I took in Florida in March. I believe they are Stilt <br />
> Sandpipers but<br />
> would love any feedback. Here is a link to that photograph.<br />
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviessmith/5574944671/in/photostream/<br />
><br />
> Thank you so much!<br />
> Denise<br />
> hobbitsmama at snet.net<br />
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From robben99 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 22:35:56 2011<br />
From: robben99 at gmail.com (Thomas Robben)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 22:35:56 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Fwd: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird<br />
In-Reply-To: <CA+uzAV7OdkoyqxBRZ2COasJmr2deaNDAGMEjvtbf_9NFgPZ34A@mail.gmail.com><br />
References: <CA+uzAV7_E6L5orXLvUt+KvOp=rBUFPz0p4yi9zeK=ikx48Uv2g@mail.gmail.com><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><CA+uzAV7OdkoyqxBRZ2COasJmr2deaNDAGMEjvtbf_9NFgPZ34A@mail.gmail.com><br />
Message-ID: <CANpJbq0iZHzsBUxDRdTxKDYU-QPs=dzAhD0WoZyEd23vovP0aA@mail.gmail.com><br />
<br />
We have just witnessed an incredible hurricane, with historic bird<br />
consequences. We need everybody's help to capture their observations into<br />
eBird, as Marshall Iliff describes below....<br />
There is a lot to be learned from a panoramic<br />
Florida-to-Maine-&-the-Maritmes view of what this hurricane did, so please<br />
enter your field observations into eBird as soon as possible, within a week<br />
or so.<br />
There is really quite an amazing story here, so lets try to document all of<br />
it, please.<br />
Tom Robben<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Marshall Iliff <miliff at aol.com><br />
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM<br />
Subject: Fwd: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird<br />
To: nbonomo at gmail.com, birdfreak007 at yahoo.com, Steve Mirick <<br />
smirick at comcast.net>, tbj4 at cornell.edu, pollypie at att.net, Thomas Robben <<br />
robben99 at gmail.com>, Andy Farnsworth <af27 at cornell.edu>, Bill Hubick <<br />
bill_hubick at yahoo.com>, Ned Brinkley <ensifera at aol.com>, Nathan Dias <<br />
dias at crbo.net>, spencer hardy <curlewsandpiper17 at gmail.com><br />
<br />
Would welcome cross-posts on this...we really have an opportunity to have<br />
all the storm watches in eBird if we act now...<br />
<br />
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />
From: Marshall Iliff <miliff at aol.com><br />
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:27 PM<br />
Subject: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird<br />
To: Massbird <massbird at theworld.com>, bostonbirds at googlegroups.com<br />
<br />
Massbird,<br />
<br />
With news still coming in for reports from Hurricane Irene, I have posted a<br />
tentative summary of some of the news with visualizations from eBird etc.<br />
See the story here:<br />
<br />
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-redux<br />
<br />
We already have a couple hundred Sooty Tern sightings in eBird but there are<br />
many more that we still need to get in the system. Only about half of the<br />
tropicbirds are in, so the Delaware, upstate New York, New Hampshire, and<br />
one of the New York City sightings still need to be entered. Many Rhode<br />
Island and eastern Massachusetts finds are yet to be entered as well, and it<br />
would be great to be able to see a full picture for any species within the<br />
next week or so. So again, please encourage your friends who got out storm<br />
birding to help us compile all the sightings in one place.<br />
<br />
We are very interested in using eBird to gain a better understanding of this<br />
storm, so we invite all birders who got out seeking storm-blown seabirds to<br />
please please PLEASE submit those sightings to eBird (whether or not you<br />
connected with anyrarities--the negative data is helpful too). We hope to be<br />
able to produce an animated summary of Sooty Tern sightings, showing the<br />
progression of the storm and where and when sooty Terns appeared. If we can<br />
get this together quick enough (it will depend on New England birders making<br />
sure all Sooty Tern sightings have been entered with correct times), then<br />
maybe the visualization will help us all make better storm birding plans for<br />
Hurricane Katia<br />
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024712.shtml?5-daynl.<br />
<br />
Thanks, and if anyone has questions about how to get their storm birding<br />
list into eBird, please get in touch with me directly.<br />
<br />
Best,<br />
<br />
Marshall Iliff<br />
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miliff AT aol.com<br />
West Roxbury, MA<br />
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Ithaca, NY<br />
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From binskeep at optonline.net Thu Sep 1 23:50:49 2011<br />
From: binskeep at optonline.net (Brenda Inskeep)<br />
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:50:49 -0400<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Half a million swallows (Old Lyme)<br />
Message-ID: <851DC7AD-0073-42AA-A99E-88FA0DC2F99A@optonline.net><br />
<br />
Greetings to all,<br />
<br />
9/1/11 - Nothing like what occurred at Milford Point today and this past week since Hurricane Irene...but today I kayaked around Lord Cove and the CT River in Old Lyme, not looking for Frigatebirds, but hoping to see the "Tree Swallow Spectacular" that occurs over Goose Island this time of year. Upon arriving at 4 pm, there were already swarms of swallows present; by 6:30 thousands and they just kept coming from every direction. Then, at 7:15, they began frantically arriving in droves as if the school-bell rang and they were late, each joining an increasingly organized vortex, circling around until the last were in. This phenomena always amazes me. There's something special about seeing this many birds in one view and although I'm not sure how to even accurately estimate the number of birds seen, but I believe it is around 500,000 from what I've heard. As the vortex grew tighter with birds circling in seemingly perfect formation, they began to funnel into Goose Island, each bird diving straight down until there were none left. By 7:30, only a few birds remained - defiant teenagers, no doubt. An annual trip to see this phenomena is highly recommended. To my knowledge, there are no public access points by ground to see the show. Anyone with a canoe or kayak can paddle from Pilgrim Landing & 156 - Pilgrim Landing is a public launch with 4 parking spots (there was no one there today nor on a visit last month) or there is a river boat from Essex, I believe, that runs each evening for a nominal fee.<br />
<br />
Also seen flying southeast across the river, disappearing over the tree line was an adult Bald Eagle. And on I-95 at Exit 70 there were 2 Black Vultures circling fairly low at 3:30 pm. Sadly, I found a deceased Great Blue Heron on the highly eroded beach of Calves Island, one of many apparent wildlife casualties of Irene. Incidentally, I also found a deceased Yellow-breasted Chat in front of my house in Shippan on Saturday while coming back from a walk, pre-storm, although it had already began to rain. I'm not sure what the circumstance of this bird's demise could have been; the bird looked like it had been hit by a car, but it didn't seem likely as it was on a dead-end street with no high-volume or high-speed traffic. This bird was collected for submission but I had no way to collect the Great Blue Heron today which was in good shape.<br />
<br />
Btw, migration looks good on radar again tonight as it has these past few nights. And although it was "quiet," I had 11 warbler species in Central Park on Tuesday. The little birds are moving, too!<br />
<br />
Brenda Inskeep in Stamford<br />
<br />
From mantlik at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 2 00:31:19 2011<br />
From: mantlik at sbcglobal.net (Frank Mantlik)<br />
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:31:19 -0700 (PDT)<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford; Many Birds<br />
In-Reply-To: <F4672988EA7644F89FE6DF0508B59B61@OfficePC><br />
References: <F4672988EA7644F89FE6DF0508B59B61@OfficePC><br />
Message-ID: <1314937879.88915.YahooMailRC@web80005.mail.sp1.yahoo.com><br />
<br />
Mike,<br />
That's quite a one-day, one-place list...to which you can add Royal Tern, 4<br />
Black Skimmers, 4 Whimbrels.<br />
<br />
We used to call that the Patagonia (AZ) Picnic Table Effect; when a rare bird<br />
brings more birders, who then find more rare birds, etc.<br />
<br />
Frank Mantlik<br />
Stratford<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
________________________________<br />
From: Mike Warner <mjwarner at optonline.net><br />
To: ctbirds at lists.ctbirding.org<br />
Sent: Thu, September 1, 2011 7:41:39 PM<br />
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford; Many Birds<br />
<br />
<br />
9/1/11 Milford Point - American Avocet, Black-necked Stilt, Bairds Sandpiper,<br />
Western Sandpiper, Gull-billed Tern, Forsters Tern, Bonapartes Gull.<br />
<br />
Most of the day was spent at Milford Point today and I saw some very unique<br />
birds, some for the first time. Many thanks to all the birders present today,<br />
it was quite a day. More and more birds kept arriving and I too just missed<br />
seeing the Brown Pelican. Currently, there are many species and numbers of<br />
birds there. <br />
<br />
<br />
Mike Warner<br />
Wilton, CT.<br />
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"Subject: NYC Area RBA: 2 September 2011<br />
From: Karen Fung <easternbluebird AT gmail.com><br />
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 22:29:57 -0400<br />
- RBA<br />
* New York<br />
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County<br />
* Sep 2, 2011<br />
* NYNY1109.02<br />
<br />
- Birds Mentioned:<br />
<br />
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+<br />
Wilson's Storm-Petrel<br />
LEACH'S STORM-PETREL+<br />
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+<br />
WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD+<br />
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+<br />
Brown Pelican<br />
MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD+<br />
WHITE IBIS+<br />
American Golden-Plover<br />
BLACK-NECKED STILT+<br />
American Avocet<br />
Whimbrel<br />
Hudsonian Godwit<br />
Marbled Godwit<br />
Baird's Sandpiper<br />
Buff-breasted Sandpiper<br />
Red-necked Phalarope<br />
SOOTY TERN+<br />
BRIDLED TERN+<br />
Gull-billed Tern<br />
Caspian Tern<br />
Black Tern<br />
Royal Tern<br />
SANDWICH TERN+<br />
SOUTH POLAR SKUA+<br />
Pomarine Jaeger<br />
Parasitic Jaeger<br />
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+<br />
Yellow-throated Warbler<br />
Lark Sparrow<br />
<br />
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report<br />
electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at<br />
http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm<br />
<br />
You can also send reports and digital image files via email to<br />
nysarc1 AT nybirds.org .<br />
<br />
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos<br />
or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:<br />
<br />
Jeanne Skelly - Secretary<br />
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)<br />
420 Chili-Scottsville Rd.<br />
Churchville, NY 14428<br />
<br />
~ Transcript ~<br />
<br />
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert<br />
Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070<br />
<br />
To report sightings call:<br />
Tom Burke (212) 372-1483<br />
Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126<br />
<br />
Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro<br />
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County<br />
Transcriber: Karen Fung<br />
<br />
[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]<br />
<br />
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September<br />
2nd, at 7:00pm. The highlights of today's tape are numerous, thanks<br />
to Hurricane Irene.<br />
<br />
Though the storm produced an unfortunate amount of inconvenience and<br />
destruction for many, from a birding standpoint one can only say<br />
"WOW!!". It was unprecedented in the number and variety of displaced<br />
birds that were concentrated in the New York area, these occurring<br />
almost entirely during the storm's passage on Sunday and almost all<br />
gone by Monday.<br />
<br />
Top prize probably goes to WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD, with at least five<br />
or six in New York. What may have been the same adult was seen over<br />
the Hudson River from W.70th Street in Manhattan, and then<br />
photographed off W.23rd Street. An immature was also reported moving<br />
south from W.180th Street where it was first spotted. Another adult<br />
was nicely photographed moving west over Point Lookout in the<br />
direction of where one was found deceased on Rockaway Beach. Another<br />
dead Tropicbird on the North Fork in East Marion is on its way to the<br />
American Museum of Natural History for positive identification. Most<br />
unexpected among these sightings was a White-tailed found way up the<br />
Hudson River in Stephentown, Rensselaer County, this bird<br />
unfortunately passing away at a rehabilitator's.<br />
<br />
Also up the Hudson River was the storm's only MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD,<br />
a female-type seen in the town of Hudson, Columbia County, on Sunday.<br />
<br />
Another superlative bird was a BLACK-CAPPED PETREL, spotted and<br />
photographed Sunday afternoon as it soared back and forth over Mecox<br />
Bay. Though it seemed to settle in on the Bay, it was not seen Monday<br />
morning.<br />
<br />
Unlike the above, both BRIDLED TERNS and SOOTY TERNS were quite<br />
widespread along coastal areas, providing good opportunities for<br />
birders venturing out and able to find shore vantage points to see and<br />
appreciate the identification pitfalls in separating these two<br />
species. An incomplete tally shows about 56 BRIDLED and 25 SOOTY<br />
TERNS ranging from the Hudson River up to the Tappan Zee Bridge, along<br />
the Brooklyn shoreline, into western Long Island Sound, and around<br />
Long Island inlets from Jones out to Montauk -- an unprecedented<br />
showing for these two species.<br />
<br />
SANDWICH TERNS were also quite widespread, with many remaining Monday,<br />
and a few later, in tern and gull gatherings. While the Sootys had<br />
pulled out altogether by Monday, only two Bridleds were seen early<br />
Monday off Brooklyn.<br />
<br />
BLACK TERNS were abundant, as were ROYAL TERNS, and some GULL-BILLED<br />
TERNS and CASPIAN TERNS were also present.<br />
<br />
Storm-Petrels were also noted, with WILSON'S STORM-PETREL the most<br />
common, and at least 19 LEACH'S STORM-PETREL also present, from the<br />
Hudson River in Brooklyn to Jones Beach and way out to Montauk. Also<br />
reported were three BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS from Jones Beach West<br />
End, the Hudson River, and Long Island Sound, this a difficult<br />
identification separation from Leach's Storm-Petrel under the given<br />
viewing conditions.<br />
<br />
Four SOUTH POLAR SKUAS were seen: one sitting in the Jones Beach West<br />
End #2 parking lot; one rescued on a Sea Cliff Beach and released the<br />
next morning; and two flying together over Hook Pond in East Hampton.<br />
<br />
Jaegers featured an immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER at Playland Park in<br />
Rye, a POMARINE JAEGER in Hook Pond, and at least 11 PARASITIC<br />
JAEGERS.<br />
<br />
Shearwater numbers were unexpectedly low, given the above, but over<br />
200 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were reported during the storm, moving by<br />
various points, usually in flocks.<br />
<br />
Other Sunday oddities featured a BLACK-NECKED STILT in Sleepy Hollow,<br />
Westchester County; an AMERICAN AVOCET at Jones Beach West End, and a<br />
BROWN PELICAN on Lake Montauk. Speaking of pelicans, two Browns were<br />
still at Lake Montauk on the east jetty today, and other singles<br />
during the week were at Patchogue Monday, at Nickerson Beach and at<br />
Southampton Tuesday, at Jones Beach West End and at Tiana Beach (Dune<br />
Road, Westhampton) Wednesday, and at Great Gull Island Monday and<br />
today, while an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was reported in East Hampton<br />
Thursday.<br />
<br />
This morning an immature WHITE IBIS was found at Sagaponack on a field<br />
south of Bridge Lane on the east side of the bridge. It was still<br />
there in the late afternoon, but had vanished by early evening.<br />
<br />
Among the shorebirds, up to 14 MARBLED GODWITS have been at Cupsogue,<br />
with others about, and the peak for HUDSONIAN GODWIT was ten at Floyd<br />
Bennett Field in Brooklyn on Sunday. Some WHIMBREL continue, and<br />
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, and AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER<br />
are currently being found at appropriate locations.<br />
<br />
The only passerines we have time to mention are a YELLOW-THROATED<br />
WARBLER found Monday at the Roosevelt Third House County Park in<br />
Montauk, and a LARK SPARROW at Robert Moses State Park, East End, on<br />
Monday.<br />
<br />
To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126,<br />
or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483.<br />
<br />
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the<br />
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.<br />
<br />
[~END TAPE~]<br />
<br />
~ End Transcript ~<br />
<br />
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