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3/31/25 10:54 am Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Snow Geese Silver Sands SP, Milford
3/31/25 9:38 am Shori Velles via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Broad Brook Reservoir Cheshire
3/31/25 6:33 am James Nordgren via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Female kestrel at Hammo
3/31/25 6:22 am Jeri D. via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6499, Issue 2
3/31/25 4:55 am John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
3/30/25 1:43 pm Lynn Jones via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Derby- tree swallows
3/30/25 1:36 pm Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
3/30/25 1:29 pm Bianca Beland via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
3/30/25 1:24 pm Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Spotted Sandpiper?
3/30/25 1:07 pm Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Spotted Sandpiper?
3/30/25 12:23 pm Jazzy Guitar via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Harlequin Ducks Hammo Beach SP Madison
3/30/25 10:48 am Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Spotted Sandpiper??
3/30/25 7:49 am Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Backyard birds & mimicry
3/30/25 6:57 am George Wallace via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Extra-lim. obit: Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism,
3/30/25 6:54 am Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Goldfinch influx/swarm
3/30/25 4:49 am Steve Mayo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Harlequin Ducks Hammo Beach SP Madison
3/29/25 2:13 pm Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/29/25 12:53 pm Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/29/25 12:51 pm ashippee via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Extra-lim. obit: Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism,
3/29/25 12:45 pm John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Black Bear "prove" poles for bluebird nesting boxes? - Washington, CT
3/29/25 9:46 am Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Chatfield Pine Warblers
3/29/25 8:07 am Stuart Winquist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Boat-tail Grackle at Cedar Island, Hammo
3/29/25 6:52 am ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Hammo
3/29/25 6:47 am ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Hammo Harlequins
3/29/25 6:08 am Stuart Winquist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] 2 male Harlequins showing at Hammo
3/27/25 5:45 pm Ed Haesche via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] A couple of Hammo pics 3-25-25
3/27/25 5:22 pm Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Oyster River Mouth
3/27/25 11:50 am Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Bonaparte’s Gull
3/27/25 9:35 am Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Extralimital: Gray-breasted Martin in NY
3/27/25 8:03 am MICKY KOMARA via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: mowing vs. Bobolinks and other grassland birds
3/26/25 1:50 pm Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Coastal Center
3/26/25 10:38 am Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Stn 43 South Windsor Birds
3/26/25 7:47 am Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] First Tree Swallows New Milford
3/26/25 7:32 am Rick Kenneally via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Rusty Blackbirds at Woodcock Nature Center Wilton
3/26/25 7:29 am Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/25/25 4:01 pm Glenn Williams via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Groton shoveler
3/24/25 1:44 pm John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Wild Turkey hens - Washington, CT
3/22/25 3:34 pm closcalz--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Two (fun) signs of spring this morning
3/22/25 9:49 am Victor Quintanilla via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Cowbird
3/22/25 7:45 am ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Hammo, 9-10
3/21/25 6:23 pm Thomas Kelly via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] FOY Osprey
3/21/25 4:14 pm annette pasek via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Hartford Audubon Wildlife Series - Trinidad and Tobago - April 29
3/21/25 4:51 am richard sharon via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] FOY Osprey
3/20/25 11:53 am Dave Rauch via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] CT Bird Stamp are easier to get
3/20/25 6:56 am John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] American Goldfinch - Washington, CT
3/19/25 2:44 pm Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Eurasian Wigeon, Milford
3/19/25 1:40 pm Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Coastal Center
3/19/25 9:37 am Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Pintails Stratford
3/19/25 8:36 am Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Brown Creeper New Milford
3/19/25 7:33 am Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Coastal center Ospreys are back!!
3/19/25 7:19 am Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Milford Audubon Osprey 3.19
3/19/25 6:56 am Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Milfor Point this morning
3/18/25 8:31 pm Mike Widmer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Woodcocks - Fairfield
3/18/25 5:32 pm Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] WCBC Ken Elkins Talk March 20 in Southbury
3/18/25 5:18 pm Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Woodcock Sherman
3/18/25 10:50 am MIN HUANG via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Assistance with Woodcock Surveys
3/18/25 10:16 am John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Tree Swallow- Washington, CT
3/18/25 9:55 am Dyl Pedro via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Mystic Green-tailed Towhee continues
3/18/25 9:26 am William Banks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Pectoral sandpipers at silver sands
3/18/25 9:18 am Joe Bear via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Allen's Meadow- Native Shrubs for Birds
3/18/25 6:27 am JOHN OGREN via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] FOY Great Egret
3/16/25 10:47 am BHMarsh via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Horned grebes Fisher Meadow Avon
3/15/25 2:07 pm Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Snow Goose
3/15/25 9:35 am Adam Fasciolo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] CT Big Seven
3/14/25 5:28 pm Ed Haesche via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Green-tailed Towhee pics 3-13-25
3/14/25 2:18 pm Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Anchor Beach, Milford
3/14/25 12:46 pm John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Granby - Siskins continue at feeder
3/14/25 7:47 am Batsford, William via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Piping plover
3/12/25 11:15 am Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Coastal Center
3/12/25 8:58 am Shori Velles via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Stewart McKinney - Stratford
3/12/25 4:06 am Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Southbury Woodcocks
3/11/25 7:49 pm Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Durham Woodcocks
3/11/25 3:11 pm John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Great cormorants at Greenwich Point
3/11/25 1:26 pm Florence McBride via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Pair of Northern Shovelers -- Hamden
3/11/25 12:56 pm Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Chipping Sparrow
3/11/25 3:10 am Danforth, Mark E (Mark) via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] American Woodcock peenting.
3/10/25 2:54 pm Glenn Williams via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Mystic Green-tailed Towhee
3/10/25 1:43 pm leamycorey--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Tree swallow
3/10/25 12:52 pm George Amato via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Piping Plovers at Milford Point
3/10/25 12:42 pm John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Ruddy turnstones at Greenwich Point
3/10/25 12:32 pm LESLIE PETRICK via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Tree swallow
3/10/25 11:06 am Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Correction
3/10/25 10:45 am John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Great cormorants at Greenwich point
3/10/25 9:12 am Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] American Oystercatcher Milford Pt 3/20/25
3/10/25 9:00 am Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Stn 43 South Windsor Highlights
3/10/25 8:45 am Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/10/25 8:14 am Cynthia Ehlinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Oystercatcher Greenwich Point
3/10/25 7:58 am MICKY KOMARA via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Bobolinks etc. and mowing of fields in CT
3/10/25 7:44 am Steve Mayo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Hammo Madison
3/9/25 2:15 pm Jim Stanton via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: Green-tailed Towhee- Mystic
3/9/25 1:59 pm Stefan Martin via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Green-tailed Towhee- Mystic
3/9/25 10:35 am SARAH FAULKNER via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Birding With Your Phone Workshop Recording
3/8/25 11:12 am Kim Westcott via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Osprey talk 3/16/25
3/7/25 2:44 pm Glenn Williams via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Groton semi-rarities
3/7/25 9:33 am Dyl Pedro via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Groton Shoveler
3/6/25 1:05 pm Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Rusty Blackbird
3/6/25 11:03 am Jack Swatt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Whalebone Creek Northern Pintails
3/6/25 10:45 am ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Hammo Scoters
3/6/25 4:46 am Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] First Phoebe!
3/5/25 10:33 am Christopher Unsworth via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Scope and tripod ??
3/5/25 8:55 am John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] North Granby - Pine Siskins continuing
3/5/25 7:12 am James Hunter via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Black vultures New Milford
3/4/25 2:32 pm Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Purple Sandpiper And Lapland Longspur
3/4/25 12:45 pm Cynthia Ehlinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Volunteers wanted for MA birding projects- Trustees of Reservations Volunteer Bird Monitoring
3/4/25 11:11 am Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Sandhill Crane, New Milford - please PARK CAREFULLY
3/4/25 7:19 am John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] North Granby - more Pine Siskins
3/3/25 11:02 am Dyl Pedro via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Lebanon Snipe
3/3/25 6:09 am John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] North Granby - two Pine Siskins
3/3/25 4:29 am Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Fox Sparrows
3/2/25 2:42 pm James Hunter via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Southbury / Woodbury sightings
3/2/25 9:24 am John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Red-winged Blackbirds - Washington, CT
3/2/25 8:34 am James Nordgren via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6473, Issue 1
3/1/25 1:43 pm Ian Devlin via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Frash Pond Stratford
3/1/25 1:37 pm Ian Devlin via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] 14 Acre Pond Norwalk
3/1/25 7:06 am John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] Greenwich Point Long-tailed ducks
3/1/25 5:36 am Cynthia Ehlinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] COA Annual Meeting deadline extended to March 2
3/1/25 5:10 am Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> [CT Birds] March welcome
 
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Date: 3/31/25 10:54 am
From: Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Snow Geese Silver Sands SP, Milford
5 Snow Geese Silver Sands SP with Canadas on field adjacent to parking lot. Steve Spector Milford
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Date: 3/31/25 9:38 am
From: Shori Velles via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Broad Brook Reservoir Cheshire
Does anyone have a pin for parking at Broad Brook Reservoir.

Thank you,
Shori Velles
Franklin

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Date: 3/31/25 6:33 am
From: James Nordgren via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Female kestrel at Hammo
Female kestrel at parking lot at West Beach this morning.

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Date: 3/31/25 6:22 am
From: Jeri D. via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6499, Issue 2
This morning, while riding the train, I saw a Killdeer near the tracks. I
sure hope it left that area. It was in the Branford area.

Jeri Duefrene
Niantic


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> 1. Re: Spotted Sandpiper? (Paul Desjardins)
> 2. Re: Spotted Sandpiper? (Angela Dimmitt)
> 3. Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm (Bianca Beland)
> 4. Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm (Angela Dimmitt)
> 5. Derby- tree swallows (Lynn Jones)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:07:00 -0400
> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Spotted Sandpiper?
> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
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> Paul Desjardins
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> Angela, maybe early but it could very well have been a Spotted Sandpiper.
> The main point here is did you notice a stiff wingbeat which is
> characteristic of the species? This is but one example of being able to
> identify a species even if you got a poor look of it’s plumage.
>
> Paul Desjardins
> Windsor Locks
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:22:22 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Angela Dimmitt <angeladimmitt...>
> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Spotted Sandpiper?
> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
> <ctbirds...>, Paul Desjardins
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> Thanks Paul - no I did not see that wingbeat - and I am very familiar
> with it - the bird flew straight down at a slow angle without flapping at
> all, then banked slightly out of sight to the stream, so maybe that was its
> last glide down before landing. Room fairly soundproof so heard nothing -
> but when I walked down there, a wood duck flushed further upstream - but
> they don't have white stripes in their wings, at least in my experience -
> and the bird I saw was smaller and definitely not a duck.
> Angela Dimmitt
> New Milford
> On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 04:07:52 PM EDT, Paul Desjardins via
> CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> Paul Desjardins
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> Phone: (860) 623-3696
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> Angela, maybe early but it could very well have been a Spotted Sandpiper.
> The main point here is did you notice a stiff wingbeat which is
> characteristic of the species? This is but one example of being able to
> identify a species even if you got a poor look of it’s plumage.
>
> Paul Desjardins
> Windsor Locks
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:29:27 -0400
> From: Bianca Beland <bianca.m.beland...>
> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
> To: Frank Mantlik <mantlik...>
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> Stay tuned Frank! We had a Pine Siskin at my parent’s feeder in Barkhamsted
> and I heard one in my yard in New Hartford - they’re here!
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> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <
> <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> > 3/30, Stratford yard- We have about 100 Goldfinches at our feeders right
> > now. Big influx from the 30+ daily. Some males are almost fully in
> breeding
> > plumage. Alas, still no Siskin among them.
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> > Frank & Linda Mantlik
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:35:55 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Angela Dimmitt <angeladimmitt...>
> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
> To: Frank Mantlik <mantlik...>, Bianca Beland
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> A friend in Kent also had a swam of "a hundred or more" goldfinches at
> one time. Just half a dozen regulars at my feeders. Just 1 pine siskin on
> 2/24/25.
> Angela Dimmitt
> New Milford
> On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 04:29:51 PM EDT, Bianca Beland via
> CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> Stay tuned Frank! We had a Pine Siskin at my parent’s feeder in
> Barkhamsted
> and I heard one in my yard in New Hartford - they’re here!
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <
> <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> > 3/30, Stratford yard- We have about 100 Goldfinches at our feeders right
> > now. Big influx from the 30+ daily. Some males are almost fully in
> breeding
> > plumage. Alas, still no Siskin among them.
> >
> > Frank & Linda Mantlik
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:43:36 -0400
> From: Lynn Jones <lynnjones11...>
> Subject: [CT Birds] Derby- tree swallows
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> Naugatuck River at the Derby Dam area, about 1000 is a conservative
> estimate.
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> Lynn A. Jones
> Museum Assistant
> Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
> New Haven, CT
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Date: 3/31/25 4:55 am
From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
A small flock of Pine Siskins has been mobbing our thistle-seed sock together with Goldfinches every day since February 26th. There were 12 of them yesterday. Anyone who would like to borrow a cup of Siskins is welcome to stop by.

John Weeks
North Granby

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Date: 3/30/25 1:43 pm
From: Lynn Jones via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Derby- tree swallows
Naugatuck River at the Derby Dam area, about 1000 is a conservative
estimate.




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Lynn A. Jones
Museum Assistant
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
New Haven, CT

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Date: 3/30/25 1:36 pm
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
A friend in Kent also had a swam of "a hundred or more" goldfinches at one time.  Just half a dozen regulars at my feeders.  Just 1 pine siskin on 2/24/25.
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford
On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 04:29:51 PM EDT, Bianca Beland via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:

Stay tuned Frank! We had a Pine Siskin at my parent’s feeder in Barkhamsted
and I heard one in my yard in New Hartford - they’re here!

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> 3/30, Stratford yard- We have about 100 Goldfinches at our feeders right
> now. Big influx from the 30+ daily. Some males are almost fully in breeding
> plumage. Alas, still no Siskin among them.
>
> Frank & Linda Mantlik
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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Date: 3/30/25 1:29 pm
From: Bianca Beland via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Goldfinch influx/swarm
Stay tuned Frank! We had a Pine Siskin at my parent’s feeder in Barkhamsted
and I heard one in my yard in New Hartford - they’re here!

On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <
<ctbirds...> wrote:

> 3/30, Stratford yard- We have about 100 Goldfinches at our feeders right
> now. Big influx from the 30+ daily. Some males are almost fully in breeding
> plumage. Alas, still no Siskin among them.
>
> Frank & Linda Mantlik
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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Date: 3/30/25 1:24 pm
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Spotted Sandpiper?
Thanks Paul - no I did not see that wingbeat - and I am very familiar with it - the bird flew straight down at a slow angle without flapping at all, then banked slightly out of sight to the stream, so maybe that was its last glide down before landing.  Room fairly soundproof so heard nothing - but when I walked down there, a wood duck flushed further upstream - but they don't have white stripes in their wings, at least in my experience - and the bird I saw was smaller and definitely not a duck.
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford
On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 04:07:52 PM EDT, Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:



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Angela, maybe early but it could very well have been a Spotted Sandpiper. The main point here is did you notice a stiff wingbeat which is characteristic of the species? This is but one example of being able to identify a species even if you got a poor look of it’s plumage.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks


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Date: 3/30/25 1:07 pm
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Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Spotted Sandpiper?


Paul Desjardins
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Phone: (860) 623-3696


Angela, maybe early but it could very well have been a Spotted Sandpiper. The main point here is did you notice a stiff wingbeat which is characteristic of the species? This is but one example of being able to identify a species even if you got a poor look of it’s plumage.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks


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Date: 3/30/25 12:23 pm
From: Jazzy Guitar via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Harlequin Ducks Hammo Beach SP Madison
Do you mean the breakwaters at the pavilion?

> On Mar 30, 2025, at 7:49 AM, Steve Mayo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> Continuing on rocks off Meigs Point jetty. Lo tide rising.
>
> Steve Mayo
> Bethany
>
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Date: 3/30/25 10:48 am
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Spotted Sandpiper??
This morning a shorebird flew straight down my stream and landed out of sight - glimpsed broad white stripe length of wings. Seems early (COA's Birds by Season) but could it have been a spotted sandpiper?
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford

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Date: 3/30/25 7:49 am
From: Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Backyard birds & mimicry
Since moving to Windsor Locks our “backyard” is a huge parking lot abutting CT River, Windsor Locks Canal and park
Recorded 30 species this morning the most since last summer.
Notably several small groups of American Goldfinch,
an Eastern Pheobe, groups of Fish and American crows and Hooded Mergansers..
This is the third time Merlin recently detected an Eastern Bluebird and Killdeer - with no sign of them.
Coincidentally a Northern Mockingbird is detected right before these birds are detected. 🤣 I’m suspicious! So maybe only 28 species?!
Christina Nieves
Windsor Locks


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Date: 3/30/25 6:57 am
From: George Wallace via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Extra-lim. obit: Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism,
For a time during my tenure at American Bird Conservancy, Victor served on
our Board of Directors. He was a solid guy with a keen interest in linking
bird watching with conservation. Among other activities, he brought ABC and
Tucson Audubon together to buy the Patton property in Patagonia, AZ. It was
long known among birders as a hotspot, especially for hummingbirds, and
when the Pattons passed away, Victor was very focused on it not being lost
to the birding community. We were able to buy it and it is now wholly owned
and managed by Tucson Audubon.

Very best to all,

George Wallace
Salisbury, Litchfield Co.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM ashippee via CTBirds <
<ctbirds...> wrote:

> Extra-liminal, but an interesting life & career. Anyone know him
> personally?
>
> .
> "Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism, Dies at 84 He
> had a reverential regard for birds from an early age, and he turned it into
> a thriving business. “I call him the Zen master of birds,” Peter
> Matthiessen said." . .
> .
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/victor-emanuel-dead.html?<unlocked_article_code...>&smid=url-share .
>
>
> .
>
> A. ShippeeHamden
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Date: 3/30/25 6:54 am
From: Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Goldfinch influx/swarm
3/30, Stratford yard- We have about 100 Goldfinches at our feeders right now. Big influx from the 30+ daily. Some males are almost fully in breeding plumage. Alas, still no Siskin among them.

Frank & Linda Mantlik

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Date: 3/30/25 4:49 am
From: Steve Mayo via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Harlequin Ducks Hammo Beach SP Madison
Continuing on rocks off Meigs Point jetty. Lo tide rising.

Steve Mayo
Bethany


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Date: 3/29/25 2:13 pm
From: Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Off the Deck
OOPS! “Sin of omission”- 3/29/25- 6:11AM ( pre-sit) Great-horned Owl :) Ernie, Colchester

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Date: 3/29/25 12:53 pm
From: Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/29/25- 6:45-7:45AM- 25 species featuring: FOY Eastern Phoebe; Golden-crowned Kinglet. Ernie, Colchester

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Date: 3/29/25 12:51 pm
From: ashippee via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Extra-lim. obit: Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism,
Extra-liminal, but an interesting life & career. Anyone know him personally?

.
"Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism, Dies at 84 He had a reverential regard for birds from an early age, and he turned it into a thriving business. “I call him the Zen master of birds,” Peter Matthiessen said." . .
.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/victor-emanuel-dead.html?<unlocked_article_code...>&smid=url-share.  

.    

A. ShippeeHamden

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Date: 3/29/25 12:45 pm
From: John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Black Bear "prove" poles for bluebird nesting boxes? - Washington, CT
My local handyman Chris was here this afternoon to put up Black Bear "prove" poles (6) for my bluebird nesting boxes. The poles are heavy metal and are close to 7 feet tall with baffles. While Chris was working here a Tree Swallow landed on top of one new nesting boxes on the black bear "prove" pole.
David W BabingtonWashington, CT 

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Date: 3/29/25 9:46 am
From: Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Chatfield Pine Warblers
The Pine Warblers have returned to Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth.

Numerous birds singing, together with several singing Juncos which may sound similar..

Chuck Imbergamo
CT Birds Moderator
Madison

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Date: 3/29/25 8:07 am
From: Stuart Winquist via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Boat-tail Grackle at Cedar Island, Hammo
Found by Laura Bengtson

Stuart Winquist
East Hampton

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Date: 3/29/25 6:52 am
From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo
Also black scoter

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Date: 3/29/25 6:47 am
From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo Harlequins
2 males Near jetty now.Holloways, Madison

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Date: 3/29/25 6:08 am
From: Stuart Winquist via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] 2 male Harlequins showing at Hammo
On rocks off end of breakwater at east end beach. Found by Russ S
Stuart Winquist
East Hampton

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Date: 3/27/25 5:45 pm
From: Ed Haesche via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] A couple of Hammo pics 3-25-25
Last of the Longspurs, First of the Ibis
Ed Haesche ,Guilford      https://photos.app.goo.gl/vXPXFmpvKiDqLz5p8

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Date: 3/27/25 5:22 pm
From: Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Oyster River Mouth
Oyster River Mouth is on New Haven Avenue in Milford at the border with West Haven.  Bonaparte's Gull have been resting there at low tides, Steve Spector, Milford
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Date: 3/27/25 11:50 am
From: Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Bonaparte’s Gull
10 Bonaparte’s Gulls still at Oyster River beach; first seen about 2 weeks ago. Steve Spector Milford
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Date: 3/27/25 9:35 am
From: Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Extralimital: Gray-breasted Martin in NY
Hi all,
A non-Purple Martin, that is being called a rare Gray-breasted Martin (from S. America) has been seen the past two days on Staten Is., Richmond County, New York.
Here is the ebird list with photos and comments of Doug Gochfeld, who found the one in Brooklyn NY in 2021:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S220981095

Frank MantlikStratford

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Date: 3/27/25 8:03 am
From: MICKY KOMARA via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: mowing vs. Bobolinks and other grassland birds
Hi all,

With the coming of spring, the birding community intends to reach out to CT DEEP very soon, about when fields on state-owned lands are mowed down. Anyone with knowledge of grassland birds under threat on state lands should reply here (but please remember NOT to reply to all).

Also, anyone with knowledge of impacts to, in particular, the state's endangered, threatened and special concern grassland birds, with regard to the mowing of fields, please feel free to weigh in.

Connecticut's list of birds in peril can be found here:
https://portal.ct.gov/deep/endangered-species/endangered-species-listings/endangered-threatened--special-concern-birds

Thanks much,

Micky Komara
Westbrook

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Date: 3/26/25 1:50 pm
From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
3/26 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM. high
tide-receding, cloudy turning sunny, around 50F.
A very busy class visit this morning and several visitors.
On the marsh: Our osprey pair was active. Female was on the nest doing
housekeeping, arranging branches, the male on his perch and on the nest,
and flying around the marsh and Long Island sound.
9 Canada Geese, 1 drake Red breasted merganser, 6 Bufflehead, 10 American
black ducks, 6 Green winged teal, 2 Mute swans, 1 Northern harrier coasting
over, 4 Gadwall.
On the grounds & feeders: 4 Cardinals singing loudly, 4 Mourning doves, 2
White throated sparrows, many house sparrows at brush pile and at feeders,
2 House finches, 2 Robins, 2 American crows, 1 Northern mockingbird, 2
Chickadees, 5 Red winged blackbirds singing, 11 noisy Common grackles and
1 Downy woodpecker. The water fountain was busy with birds drinking and
bathing.
Bev propen, Orange

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Date: 3/26/25 10:38 am
From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Stn 43 South Windsor Birds


Paul Desjardins
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Phone: (860) 623-3696

This morning seen from the Newberry Road section 7 duck species including a pair of Lesser Scaups, f o y Pied Billed Grebe, f o y American Coot and Northern Harrier.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks



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Date: 3/26/25 7:47 am
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] First Tree Swallows New Milford
Housatonic one mile below Boardman’s Bridge, large swarm 30-40 tree swallows circling over river, plus 3 at Boardman’s Bridge.
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford

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Date: 3/26/25 7:32 am
From: Rick Kenneally via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Rusty Blackbirds at Woodcock Nature Center Wilton
Nice flock - at least 10 - feeding in the swamp along the Yellow Trail at
Woodcock.

Rick
Wilton

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Date: 3/26/25 7:29 am
From: Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/26/25- 7to8 AM; 27 species including: Fly over Wood Duck pair and Canada Geese; Pileated Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers ( M&F), Northern Flickers ( pair plus 2), small flocks of Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles, Brown Creeper, returning American Robin pair,
Eastern Bluebird( pair+1). Delightful, Ernie Harris, Colchester

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Date: 3/25/25 4:01 pm
From: Glenn Williams via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Groton shoveler
The drake Northern Shoveler found over three weeks ago by Dylan Pedro continues this afternoon. It is in Birch Creek across from the Sparkle Lake Conservation Area on Thomas Rd in Groton. Shovelers aren't that common in SE Connecticut.\

Glenn Williams
Mystic

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Date: 3/24/25 1:44 pm
From: John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Wild Turkey hens - Washington, CT
Did not note any Wild Turkey hens here all this past Winter. Noted 6 Wild Turkey hens here this afternoon. Wonder where they were all Winter? 

David W BabingtonWashington, CT

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Date: 3/22/25 3:34 pm
From: closcalz--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Two (fun) signs of spring this morning
There's signs of spring everywhere now, of course, but we were pleased to see two signs of spring this morning:
Observation # 1: a pair of Wood Ducks came to check out a hole in an oak tree in our front yard as a potential nesting site. The female spent several minutes looking into the hole and even went into the hole as best she could (only her tail was visible). The male perched on a branch a few feet above her. The nearest body of water to our house is about mile away, through the woods. But I've read that Wood Ducks prefer nesting sites away from the edge of the water. The ducklings drop out of the nest cavity to the ground when they are ready to fledge and then follow their mother to the water, walking through the woods. A treacherous journey to be sure. We'd be delighted to have Wood Ducks nesting in our yard, but we aren't sure the hole is deep enough.
Observation #2: A flock of turkeys were out in a field this morning fairly close to the road. There were 4 males displaying persistently while the females stood by looking at the displaying males. Turkeys are amazing creatures, and this early spring courtship behavior is interesting to watch.
Spring is a delight!

Chris Loscalzo and Marianne Vahey,
Woodbridge

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Date: 3/22/25 9:49 am
From: Victor Quintanilla via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Cowbird
FOY cowbird in the yard today. Sounds of spring.

Victor Quintanilla
Cheshire CT

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Date: 3/22/25 7:45 am
From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo, 9-10
At the jetty two great cormorant. From the parking lot nearby, 5 black scoters, and some surfaces. Cedar Island, three oyster catchers, one immature bald eagle, 1 harbor seal. Also 2 osprey on the cam nest and several tree swallows.
Holloways, Madison
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Date: 3/21/25 6:23 pm
From: Thomas Kelly via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] FOY Osprey
Dooley Pond Middletown 1pm Friday Tom Kelly Guilford 

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Date: 3/21/25 4:14 pm
From: annette pasek via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Hartford Audubon Wildlife Series - Trinidad and Tobago - April 29

Wildlife Series – April 29, 2025: An Introduction into Neotropical Birding like no other…Trinidad and Tobago!


Apr 29 🦋 Wildlife Series 🦆 Tue 7:30 pm
Guest Speaker Sir Gerard RamsawakMcAuley Residence Auditorium at 275 Steele Rd, West Hartford.The Neotropics boasts of about 3,751 bird species which makes it the most biodiverse region in the world. This represents 90 families, 28 of which are endemic to this region. It spans over the Americas and the Caribbean with its richest diversity found in Central and South America.There is one Caribbean Island that have been a well-kept secret which rivals its mainland counterpart’s diversity, and it is Trinidad & Tobago. Trinidad being just about 50 x 39 miles and Tobago 25 x 5 miles (totaling 1,981 square miles), combined they boast of about 489 bird species representing 74 different families.Sir Gerard Ramsawak will be talking about this rich diversity of neotropical birds, its accessibility and the rich flora and fauna of this twin island state to support it. He will highlight some of the sought after species and what makes them so unique. He will also talk about the logistics of Trinidad and Tobago as birdwatching destinations, featuring some of the best birding spots.If you have any questions, contact Frances D’Amico <frandamico525...> 203–715–631
Annette Pasek Glastonbury

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Date: 3/21/25 4:51 am
From: richard sharon via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] FOY Osprey
Right on time, first day of spring, FOY Osprey spotted on the power tower nest remnants, east side of CT river just north of Charter Oak Bridge in East Hartford
Richard Sharon
East Hartford
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Date: 3/20/25 11:53 am
From: Dave Rauch via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] CT Bird Stamp are easier to get
The CT Bird Stamp is available for purchase at DEEP's online store which
makes it very easy to take advantage of a great program to help birds and
other wildlife. The Federal Duck Stamp follows the US FIscal year but the
CT Migratory Bird Stamp follows the calendar year. It is also a nice gift
idea. Here's a link:

https://ctdeepstore.com/products/connecticut-2025-migratory-bird-conservation-stamp

Dave Rauch

Meriden, CT

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Date: 3/20/25 6:56 am
From: John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] American Goldfinch - Washington, CT
Rarely see lots of American Goldfinch by the house here. Just counted 20 behind the house, all still in non breeding plumage. 
David W BabingtonWashington, CT

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Date: 3/19/25 2:44 pm
From: Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Eurasian Wigeon, Milford
From Steve Spector, male Eurasian Wigeon, near fishing jetty at entrance to Milford harbor 4:50 PM 3/19/25. First I’ve seen here. It did not stick around.
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Date: 3/19/25 1:40 pm
From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
3/19 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center-9:45am-1PM. low tide-
rising, sunny, 45-55F.
Our Ospreys have returned!! Welcome back! Female was on the nest this
morning and on the perch briefly, male was circling overhead. Female then
flew off, presumably to feed.
Lots of visitors on this beautiful day, including a class visit.
On the marsh: ( viewed with scope & bins)- a flock of 52 Green winged teal
landed -feeding, 18 American black ducks, 10 Gadwall, 6 American Wigeons,
17 Buffleheads, diving and swimming, 4 Mute swans, 3 Red breasted
mergansers, 1 Northern harrier coasting overhead and Herring & Ring billed
gulls.
On the grounds & feeders: 2 Northern Mockingbirds, 8 House sparrows at
the feeders & in brush pile, 4 Mourning doves, 2 Northern Cardinals-male
singing loudly, 1 Downy woodpecker, 2 American Goldfinches, 2 Common
Grackles, 1 American crow, and 6 House finches.
Bev Propen, Orange

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Date: 3/19/25 9:37 am
From: Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Pintails Stratford
7 female Northern Pintails feeding at Wooster Pond Stratford

Jeff Campbell

Southbury

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Date: 3/19/25 8:36 am
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Brown Creeper New Milford
Brown creeper this morning 7:45 climbing maple where seen often over the years , then on adjacent tree inspecting a snag where other birds have stashed suet and other bird food - on that spot for half a minute!

Angela Dimmitt
New Milford

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Date: 3/19/25 7:33 am
From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal center Ospreys are back!!
3/19. Milford coastal center - female on perch & in nest- male circling overhead!
Bev Propen, orange
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Date: 3/19/25 7:19 am
From: Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Milford Audubon Osprey 3.19
Perched next to platform all morning.

FOY

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Date: 3/19/25 6:56 am
From: Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Milfor Point this morning
A few good birds seen

1 female Northern Harrier on stockade fence on right

2 Piping Plovers

1 Peregrine Falcon way out on outer jetty perched

8 Oyster Catchers

1 Tree Sparrow perched on a limb by large diamond sculpture

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Date: 3/18/25 8:31 pm
From: Mike Widmer via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Woodcocks - Fairfield
3/18 - Hoyden's Hill Open Space, Fairfield.   At least 2 American Woodcocks peenting at dusk behind the softball field.  Did not get to see any aerial displays, but they’re back…!
Mike WidmerFairfield, CT.



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Date: 3/18/25 5:32 pm
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] WCBC Ken Elkins Talk March 20 in Southbury
Western CT Bird Club Monthly Meeting Thursday, March 20 - Ken Elkins, Director of the Connecticut  Audubon Society's Coastal Center at Milford Point, is talking about "HOW TO BIRD BY TREE".  United Church of Christ at 283 Main Street North in Southbury (aka Rte6/67).  Refreshments 6:30, short meeting 7:00, over by 8:30.  Free and open to the public, for information, call Angela Dimmitt 860-355-3429.
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford

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Date: 3/18/25 5:18 pm
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Woodcock Sherman
Yea, woodcocks in Sherman!   Rte.39 North - 1 along the road 7:30 this evening, second at Wimisink, peenting and winnowing.
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford

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Date: 3/18/25 10:50 am
From: MIN HUANG via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Assistance with Woodcock Surveys
Hi All,

With spring coming and woodcock displaying both evening and morning, I felt this might be a good time to send out this request. I lost a volunteer last year who had been running 3 woodcock routes for me. These routes are run once a year, between 20 April and 10 May. They are roadside surveys that are 3.6 miles in length and are run at dusk. The survey itself takes 36 minutes to run. The 3 routes that need to be picked up are in Bozrah, Hampton, and Hebron.

If there is anyone out there that would be interested in doing one or more of these routes, and would commit to doing it every year, please respond to me at:

<min.huang...>

thanks!

Min Huang
Columbia

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Date: 3/18/25 10:16 am
From: John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Tree Swallow- Washington, CT
While out in the big field below the house here with my handy man trying to figure out how to get my bluebird nesting boxes back up on poles in the field so they will be somewhat bear prove I noted a Tree Swallow flying around the field. Hope to get the nesting boxes back up by the end of nest week.
David W BabingtonWashington, CT

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Date: 3/18/25 9:55 am
From: Dyl Pedro via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Mystic Green-tailed Towhee continues
Still present in the same spot this afternoon 3/18/25 with several other birders, teed up in shrubs on the East side of Moore Woodlands in Mystic
Dylan
Lebanon


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Date: 3/18/25 9:26 am
From: William Banks via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Pectoral sandpipers at silver sands

Per Greg Hanisek..5 Pectoral Sandpipers in the sparrows lanes and a couple of Killdeer at Silver sandsBill Banks

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Date: 3/18/25 9:18 am
From: Joe Bear via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Allen's Meadow- Native Shrubs for Birds
Hello fellow birders and environmental stewards,

Most of you are familiar with Alllen's Meadow in Wilton as being one of
CT's premier birding spots. Some of you are aware of the habitat
restoration project I've been working on for the last 4-5yrs aimed at
eradicating a 3/4 acre field of Mugwort adjacent to the community gardens
and replacing it with a native pollinator meadow. That Phase 1 of the
project has been very successful (see pictures in attached link) and now
I'm fundraising through Sustainable CT for Phase 2 which is *planting c. 25
native berry-producing shrubs* around parts of the meadow's perimeter.

Please follow this link
https://www.patronicity.com/project/allens_meadow_native_shrubs_for_birds_and_pollinators#!/
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.patronicity.com/project/allens_meadow_native_shrubs_for_birds_and_pollinators*!/__;Iw!!EAPaXxOOW7smCwU!g_mrTo9t0vMSUQuzX89-os5KIkMDov84o-egkMHuG5uCiQ7WaL9jrJqbk1U_mWo6Ly97QWm6t4LeKPZPdSJ_Ra9DiQ$>
to
read the continuing story of this successful habitat transformation
and *consider donating
in support of this Phase 2 effort which will benefit our birds, native
pollinators, environment, and community*. Please feel free to forward this
to anyone you think may be interested in helping us help them.

With thanks,
Joe
Go GATORS!

*"In every walk in nature one receives far more than one seeks**."*
*-John Muir*

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Date: 3/18/25 6:27 am
From: JOHN OGREN via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] FOY Great Egret
FOY Great Egret yesterday (3/17/25) in Plum Bank Marsh, Old Saybrook. For many years like clockwork, I would spot them within a day or two of April 1. Then the last 2 years they showed up a week early. This year 2 weeks early.

John Ogren

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Date: 3/16/25 10:47 am
From: BHMarsh via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Horned grebes Fisher Meadow Avon
3 horned grebes, one in breeding plumage seen this morning Fisher Meadow in Avon by Jay K. I saw them by front parking lot a little later.

Barry Marsh
West Hartford

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Date: 3/15/25 2:07 pm
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Subject: [CT Birds] Snow Goose


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Sub adult Snow Goose seen this afternoon at Mill Pond in Broad Brook.

Paul Desjardins
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Date: 3/15/25 9:35 am
From: Adam Fasciolo via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] CT Big Seven
This morning Jo and I ran into Ed Bailey at Aspetuck Land Trust: Acorn Lane in Fairfield and had all seven CT Woodpeckers. We’ve seen all seven in one day before, but never all in one location! Our list is posted on eBird with further details.

Adam & Jo Fasciolo
Norwalk

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Date: 3/14/25 5:28 pm
From: Ed Haesche via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Green-tailed Towhee pics 3-13-25
Moore Woods,Across st. from 293 Capstan Ave , Mystic
Ed Haesche Guilford.      https://photos.app.goo.gl/gXvBW4ZSpLkSd2ABA

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Date: 3/14/25 2:18 pm
From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Anchor Beach, Milford
3/14. Took a mid-afternoon walk at Anchor Beach in Milford, along Beach
Ave to Kings Hwy, past Merwin Pt.
Very birdy , with many gulls, ducks etc.
At Devol St and Beach Ave, the Monk parakeets are building nests again (saw
about 8), with Fish Crows harassing them. Several hundred Brant along the
coast, with gulls and some cormorants on the rocks off of Merwin Pt.
Mallards, Black ducks and some Scaup. Binoculars or a scope will be
helpful since some species were further out.
Full report on EBird.
Bev Propen, Orange

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Date: 3/14/25 12:46 pm
From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Granby - Siskins continue at feeder
Pine Siskins have been visiting our thistle-seed sock several times a day since February 26th, in numbers varying between one and eight — lately, four to six.


John Weeks
North Granby






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Date: 3/14/25 7:47 am
From: Batsford, William via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Piping plover

Foy for me. 3 at Milford point. Also 2 amoy


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New HavenSent from my iPhone

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Date: 3/12/25 11:15 am
From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
3/12 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center 9:30am-1PM. sunny,
high tide-receding, 52F.
From 9:30-9:55, I took a short walk along the lagoon and part of LIS
shoreline. One American Oystercatcher on shoreline with numerous gulls, 22
Brant, 2 Hooded mergansers and 7 Mute swans in the lagoon area.
The center was busy with class visits and several visitors this morning.
On the marsh: (viewed from inside building with scope and bins) 16 American
Black ducks in the marsh grass under the osprey platform, but as the tide
receded-they dispersed in pairs into the marsh. 11 Red breasted mergansers
(1 drake, 10 hens) bathing and wing flapping, 27 Canada Geese, 5
Buffleheads, 3 Hooded mergansers far out and the Mute swans moved into the
marsh.
On the grounds & feeders: 3 Northern Cardinals -2 males singing all
morning, 4 Mourning doves, 8 House sparrows in the brush pile, 1 Chipping
sparrow, 3 Song sparrows, 3 chickadees, 1 Tufted titmouse, 2 House finches
1 Common grackle, 2 American Robins and 1 Yellow rumped warbler at the
water fountain-drinking.
Full report on Ebird.
Bev Propen, Orange

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Date: 3/12/25 8:58 am
From: Shori Velles via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Stewart McKinney - Stratford
Currently seeing 4 Boat-tailed Grackles, 5 Killdeer and 6 Tree Swallows.
Also had a FOY Lesser Yellowlegs. It just took off heading east.

Thanks,
Shori Velles
Franklin



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Date: 3/12/25 4:06 am
From: Jeffrey Campbell via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Southbury Woodcocks
Saw 2 sleeping in my backyard while letting my dog out with flashlight at 430am.

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Date: 3/11/25 7:49 pm
From: Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Durham Woodcocks
This evening I had the chance to check for Woodcocks at the Frederick White Farm in Durham. My visit really paid off, with a number of Woodcocks ‘peenting’ and doing aerial displays.

Fortunately there was no wind and very little traffic and I was able to get some decent recordings of the action. Interested birders may give them a listen on my checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S217992625

White Farm has been a great spot but it is always worth getting out to check any local fields, especially those with some wetland edge. This is the best time of year to hear Timberdoodles!

Chuck Imbergamo
CT Birds Moderator
Madison

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Date: 3/11/25 3:11 pm
From: John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Great cormorants at Greenwich Point
Three great cormorants are continuing offshore at Bluff Point (southeast corner of the park).

John M Côté - Stamford
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Date: 3/11/25 1:26 pm
From: Florence McBride via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Pair of Northern Shovelers -- Hamden
3/11 Hamden, 11:15 am, on one of the Olin ponds, viewed from Whitney Center property: Pair of Northern Shovelers in beautiful light. Also Gadwall, Mallards, American Black Ducks, Ring-necked Ducks, and a female Hooded Merganser.

Flo McBride
Hamden

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Date: 3/11/25 12:56 pm
From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Chipping Sparrow


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F O Y and earliest ever Chipping Sparrow seen this afternoon from my back yard.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks


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Date: 3/11/25 3:10 am
From: Danforth, Mark E (Mark) via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] American Woodcock peenting.
last night at dusk. Earliest I've had here in Tolland.
Mark Danforth,
Tolland

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Date: 3/10/25 2:54 pm
From: Glenn Williams via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Mystic Green-tailed Towhee
The GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE found yesterday by Joe Attwater was seen and heard throughout the day - most recently at the thickets on the southern end.

Glenn Williams
Mystic

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Date: 3/10/25 1:43 pm
From: leamycorey--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Tree swallow
I just had my first of the season in Old Saybrook (Fort Saybrook) as well! Nice surprise on this spring like day.

Corey Leamy

Chester, CT

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Date: 3/10/25 12:52 pm
From: George Amato via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Piping Plovers at Milford Point
Three Piping Plovers on exposed mudflat in lagoon at Milford Point. Also two American Oyster Catchers at the end of the sandbar.

George Amato
Milford

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Date: 3/10/25 12:42 pm
From: John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Ruddy turnstones at Greenwich Point
Ruddy turnstones at Bluff Point (southeast area of the park). A flock of a dozen or so.

John M Côté - Stamford
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Date: 3/10/25 12:32 pm
From: LESLIE PETRICK via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Tree swallow
Just saw the my first tree swallow of the season .
Leslie Petrick Greenwich CT
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Date: 3/10/25 11:06 am
From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Correction


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Eight duck species seen at stn 43 South Windsor.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks



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Date: 3/10/25 10:45 am
From: John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Great cormorants at Greenwich point
There are 3 Great cormorants basking on the rocks offshore at Bluff Point (southeast area of the park).

John M Côté - Stamford
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Date: 3/10/25 9:12 am
From: Stephen Spector via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] American Oystercatcher Milford Pt 3/20/25
America Oystercatcher Milford Pt
3/10/25 my FOY Steve Spector Milford
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Date: 3/10/25 9:00 am
From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Stn 43 South Windsor Highlights


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This morning seen from the Newberry Road section 9 duck species best being drake and hen Northern Pintails along with 2 drake Lesser Scaups, Fox Sparrow and Rusty Blackbird.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks



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Date: 3/10/25 8:45 am
From: Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Off the Deck
3/10/25- 7:30-8:30AM-25 species including: Pileated Woodpecker , Red-bellied Woodpecker and White-breasted Nuthatch in active courtship; 20+ flyover Canada Geese; Red-shouldered Hawks carrying nesting material; Eastern Bluebird and Northern Flicker ‘threesomes’. Late-comers- 8:45 male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ; 10:00 Brown Creeper. Delight-filled! Ernie Harris, Colchester

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Date: 3/10/25 8:14 am
From: Cynthia Ehlinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Oystercatcher Greenwich Point
3/10 First of year American Oystercatcher at Greenwich Point Park, Old
Greeenwich

Cynthia S. Ehlinger
Riverside

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Date: 3/10/25 7:58 am
From: MICKY KOMARA via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Bobolinks etc. and mowing of fields in CT
Call for comment or data:

Anyone with any comments or concerns regarding any particular state-owned field being mowed by the state of Connecticut, to the detriment of grassland birds, especially during breeding season, please send those comments along.

Reminder: Please DO NOT reply to all.

Thanks much,

Micky Komara
Westbrook CT

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Date: 3/10/25 7:44 am
From: Steve Mayo via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Hammo Madison
1 adult and 1 3rd cycle West Beach Parking A Hammonasset Beach State Park

Steve Mayo
Bethany


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Date: 3/9/25 2:15 pm
From: Jim Stanton via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Green-tailed Towhee- Mystic
One minor clarification for those trying to see this bird…the place to park
is called Capstan Ave, not Caspian Ave.

Jim Stanton
Gales Ferry


On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM Stefan Martin via CTBirds <
<ctbirds...> wrote:

> Joe Attwater found a GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE earlier that was just re-found and
> is being seen now.
>
> From the CT Audubon RBA text alert-
> CTAudubonRBA: GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE at Moore Woodlands in Mystic. Park on
> Caspian Ave. Seen from eastern trails near a private yard. 41.34482,
> -71.98364
>
>
> Stefan Martin
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Date: 3/9/25 1:59 pm
From: Stefan Martin via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Green-tailed Towhee- Mystic
Joe Attwater found a GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE earlier that was just re-found and
is being seen now.

From the CT Audubon RBA text alert-
CTAudubonRBA: GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE at Moore Woodlands in Mystic. Park on
Caspian Ave. Seen from eastern trails near a private yard. 41.34482,
-71.98364


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Date: 3/9/25 10:35 am
From: SARAH FAULKNER via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Birding With Your Phone Workshop Recording
Dear Birders,

If you missed the Hartford Audubon Society's "Birding With Your Phone" program with Ken Elkins from the CT Audubon Society this past week, you're in luck! We have posted the recording of the program on the HAS website at https://www.hartfordaudubon.org/report-on-birding-with-your-phone/

Enjoy!

Sarah Faulkner
Hartford Audubon Society

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Date: 3/8/25 11:12 am
From: Kim Westcott via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Osprey talk 3/16/25
Just wanted to let folks know about an interesting talk at Darien Library on Sunday, 3/16 at 2pm. They’d prefer if we registered in advance at https://www.darienlibrary.org <https://www.darienlibrary.org/> . Please contact me offline if you have any questions.
Kim Westcott
Darien CT
Pamela Lowell, My Summer With Ospreys
Sunday, March 16th at 2 p.m.
Darien Library invites you to meet author and therapist, Pamela Lowell, as she talks about her new book, My Summer With Ospreys: a Therapist's Journey Toward Hope, Community, and Healing our Planet.
In the book, trauma specialist Lowell, expertly guides us to the connections between therapy, the life of an artist, and the natural world as a place of healing.
In 2023, Lowell, an avid birder, jumped at the chance to accompany Mass Audubon in their weekly Osprey nest monitoring project on the Westport River. She hoped to get some photos of cute Osprey chicks that she could use in her paintings. What happened next was nothing short of transformative.


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Date: 3/7/25 2:44 pm
From: Glenn Williams via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Groton semi-rarities
The drake NORTHERN SHOVELER found earlier today by Dylan Pedro continues in Birch Creek seen from Thomas Rd in Groton (across from the Sparkle Lake Conservation Area lot). There was a LAPLAND LONGSPUR at nearby Eastern Point Beach in with Horned Larks. There hasn't been a report of one there in a few weeks.

Glenn Williams
Mystic

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Date: 3/7/25 9:33 am
From: Dyl Pedro via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Groton Shoveler
Thomas Rd (across from Sparkle Lake), nice close Northern Shoveler drake with Mallards
Dylan
Lebanon


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Date: 3/6/25 1:05 pm
From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Rusty Blackbird


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Seen this afternoon at Spring Park in Windsor Locks.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks



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Date: 3/6/25 11:03 am
From: Jack Swatt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Whalebone Creek Northern Pintails
With the warmer temperatures and recent rains, the inland water bodies are
finally starting to thaw out. Most lakes and ponds I checked out today
typically had Mallards and Ring-necked Ducks, but Whalebone Creek in
HadLyme had a good variety of waterfowl, including 8 Northern Pintail, 10
Wood Ducks, 4 American Wigeon, 5 Hooded Mergansers and 10 Ring-necked
Ducks, in addition to the multitudes of Canada Geese, Mallards and American
Black Ducks.

Jack Swatt


Lempster, NH

Colchester, CT

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Date: 3/6/25 10:45 am
From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo Scoters
East of jetty, 3 black scoters, 1 white- wing, plus male common eider. Now.Holloways , Madison

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Date: 3/6/25 4:46 am
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] First Phoebe!
FOY Eastern Phoebe singing in my garden here in New Milford. Also robins!

Angela Dimmitt

New Milford

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Date: 3/5/25 10:33 am
From: Christopher Unsworth via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Scope and tripod ??
Anyone missing theirs? Found a set up apparently left behind on the Meigs Point observation platform at Hammonasset. Let me know if you're missing it.

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Date: 3/5/25 8:55 am
From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] North Granby - Pine Siskins continuing
Two Siskins have made multiple visits this morning, with as many as 20 Goldfinches. At least one Siskin has appeared daily since last Wednesday (2/26).

John Weeks
North Granby







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Date: 3/5/25 7:12 am
From: James Hunter via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Black vultures New Milford
3/5/25 10:10 am

New Milford, Home Depot - 20 black vultures currently flying over river moving toward ridge east of river.

Jim Hunter
Woodbury, CT.
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Date: 3/4/25 2:32 pm
From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Purple Sandpiper And Lapland Longspur


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This afternoon seen at Harkness State Park Waterford Purple Sandpiper and at Hammonasset State Park Madison Lapland Longspur in with about 45 Horned Larks.

Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks



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Date: 3/4/25 12:45 pm
From: Cynthia Ehlinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Volunteers wanted for MA birding projects- Trustees of Reservations Volunteer Bird Monitoring
Posting this for Adam Sussbauer. Please contact him directly if interested.
- Trustees of Reservations Volunteer Bird Monitoring

My name is Adam Sussbauer, I'm a TerraCorps member working with The
Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts, and I'm the coordinator for our
two statewide grassland bird monitoring volunteer programs. I am reaching
out because we are looking for volunteers to fill roles in the southern
Berkshires of Massachusetts, and I thought that maybe there are some folks
over the border in Connecticut who might be interested!

The highest priority role that I'm looking to fill is a nest box monitor at
Bartholomew's Cobble in Sheffield, MA. This role includes the volunteer
making weekly visits to the property to visit all of the songbird nest
boxes on the property, where they will open them up, identify the species
living within it, count the eggs/hatchlings, and record such data on
Cornell's NestWatch program. We're also looking to fill a similar role at
Tyringham Cobble in Tyringham, MA. This is a great experience for birders
to get up and close with the birds!

A second project is grassland field surveys, where volunteers would make a
minimum of three visits to their property between May and July to monitor
fields and make observations of target bird species, such as bobolinks.

Adam Sussbauer
Massachusetts
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(Cynthia Ehlinger
Riverside)

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Date: 3/4/25 11:11 am
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Sandhill Crane, New Milford - please PARK CAREFULLY
To those looking for the Sandhill Crane on Hartwell or Ridge Roads in New Milford (first reported by me on December 4, 2024, and confirmed on the Woodbury-Roxbury Christmas Count Dec. 14 by Dave Tripp, and seen sporadically since) - a request - PLEASE PARK VERY CAREFULLY ON EITHER ROAD - they are narrow and particularly Hartwell Road is surprisingly blind with the steep hill and therefore dangerous - any local will tell you and they have been complaining.  Thank you!
Angela DimmittNew Milford

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Date: 3/4/25 7:19 am
From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] North Granby - more Pine Siskins
The daily count is now up to 8 Siskins at 10:15 today.


John Weeks
Chris Chinni
North Granby







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Date: 3/3/25 11:02 am
From: Dyl Pedro via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Lebanon Snipe
A nice close look a Wilson’s snipe sewing away at the mud in a cornfield on North St (a nice local scenic road for birding) this afternoon. A sure sign of spring!
Dylan Pedro
Lebanon


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Date: 3/3/25 6:09 am
From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] North Granby - two Pine Siskins
One began showing up last week (Wednesday, 2/26); it has now been joined by a second one. Very skittish, they never stay long. Up to a dozen Goldfinches feed on the thistle-seed sock at the same time.


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North Granby







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Date: 3/3/25 4:29 am
From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Fox Sparrows
2 of the little beauties scrabbling under
my feeders this morning. Joy!

Angela Dimmitt
New Milford

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Date: 3/2/25 2:42 pm
From: James Hunter via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Southbury / Woodbury sightings
From Russ Naylor
March 1, 2025

Lake Zoar - below the Shephaug Dam - 725+ Ring-necked ducks, 803+ common mergansers and 1 peregrine (resident bird).

Southbury Training School - travel pond - 3 cackling geese and 1 snow goose

Janie Pierce Park - 3 red-headed woodpeckers and 2 Wood Ducks (FOY)

Jim Hunter
Woodbury, CT.


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Date: 3/2/25 9:24 am
From: John D Babington via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Red-winged Blackbirds - Washington, CT
Just noted a flock of about 20 Red-winged Blackbirds fly up behind the house here. My first Red-winged Blackbirds here for meteorological "Spring". I consider seeing Red-winged Blackbirds a first sign of Spring.
David W BabingtonWashington, CT 

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Date: 3/2/25 8:34 am
From: James Nordgren via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6473, Issue 1

FOY killdeers in Madison this morning.


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Date: 3/1/25 1:43 pm
From: Ian Devlin via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Frash Pond Stratford
4pm
March 1st

I went specifically to see my sleeping Canvasbacks, and found them, ad well as two Redheads sleeping with them. As usual, in the lee of the north side shore of the pond during NW winds. Additionally, four Ruddy Ducks were near them and the Bufflehead flock. A great surprise to see both the Redheads and Ruddy Ducks. Frash Pond is literally one of the very few reliable places to enjoy seeing these 3-5 Canvasbacks that visit the pond each winter, as decades ago you could see them in more places and in more numbers throughout the state each winter.

I did meet a young fellow birder there, but forgot his name.

Ian Devlin
Norwalk, CT.
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Date: 3/1/25 1:37 pm
From: Ian Devlin via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] 14 Acre Pond Norwalk
2:30pm
March 1st

A good mix of ducks this afternoon.

A bunch of Ringed-necked Ducks, Mallards, Black Ducks, Gadwalls, Hooded Mergansers, and Common Mergansers.

A pair of Northern Pintails (male and female).

A Northern Shoveler.

Two domestic ducks.

More sunning Painted Turtles.

Ian Devlin
Norwalk, CT.
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Date: 3/1/25 7:06 am
From: John M Côté via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Greenwich Point Long-tailed ducks
Continuing large flock on the western side of the Point off the parking area opposite the maintenance shed. Many are coming very close to shore.

John M Côté - Stamford

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Date: 3/1/25 5:36 am
From: Cynthia Ehlinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] COA Annual Meeting deadline extended to March 2
REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, MARCH 2!
We still have space for the Connecticut Ornithological Association’s Annual
Meeting on March 8 at the CT State Community College Middlesex in
Middletown. You do not need to be a member to attend, though we would love
your support. The meeting features five great speakers covering the
Connecticut Bird Atlas, bird name changing, and North American finches.
Plus a raffle and auction with terrific prizes, including Zeiss and Vortex
optics, Cornell Bird Academy courses, artwork, books, and lots more.
Breakfast and lunch included. It's a great chance to catch up with birding
friends old and new.
More information and to register:
https://www.ctbirding.org/events/annual-meeting/

Cynthia S Ehlinger
Vice President, Connecticut Ornithological Association
Riverside

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Date: 3/1/25 5:10 am
From: Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] March welcome
Hello CT Birders -

Welcome to March – the start of meteorological Spring; a time of year most birders get excited about! A couple of Tree Swallows were seen yesterday at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, so no doubt the birds are on their way!

Our CT Birds posting guidelines are below.

Good birding,

Chuck Imbergamo
CT Birds Moderator
Madison

CT Birds guidelines:

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*** Always include your first and last name and your town when posting. ***

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Proper language is expected, personal disagreements should be handled off-line and disruptive posts will not be tolerated.

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If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know!

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