Date: 12/18/20 5:16 pm From: Gina Nichol via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] 12/18/20 - Branford, Lake Saltonstall waterfowl numbers building, plus COMMON REDPOLLS
I did an ambitious cross country ski birding tour around Lake Saltonstall trails this morning. The lake is still mostly ice free and waterfowl numbers are building. There were at least 75 Hooded Mergansers and the prize was a flock of Common Redpolls feeding in an alder down by the boat dock area. EBird list below. (Parking lots and roads are not plowed, so access is from the road, FYI). Gina Nichol Branford, CT
Lake Saltonstall, Branford, ct, New Haven, Connecticut, US Dec 18, 2020 9:30 AM - 12:45 PM Protocol: Traveling 4.2 mile(s) Checklist Comments: Cross-country ski birding from the parking lot at 400 Hosley down to the Lake and then along the lake shore to the fishing docks. Then up the powerline back to the parking lot. 27 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 2 Mute Swan 6 Gadwall 14 Mallard 20 American Black Duck 2 Hooded Merganser 75 Common Merganser 2 Ring-billed Gull 6 Herring Gull 6 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Turkey Vulture 3 Buteo sp. 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 3 Common Raven 2 Black-capped Chickadee 15 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 3 Common Redpoll 10 Feeding in an alder bush on the culvert that drains into the lake at the boat dock area Pine Siskin 2 American Goldfinch 2 Dark-eyed Junco 3 White-throated Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 4
Gina Beebe Nichol Sunrise Birding LLC Worldwide Bird Watching Tours & Wildlife Safaris PO Box 274, Cos Cob, CT 06807 <gina...> www.sunrisebirding.com USA 203.453.6724
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