Lighthouse Point Park Hawk Watch, August to December The hawk flight schedule seemed to have “moved to the right”, this year. We had a record slow August, with no real cold fronts, and then the worst September since full coverage began in 1980. October totals rebounded, although the traditional peak Columbus Day weekend failed to bring huge numbers. Our...

Twelve intrepid club members braved a cold, wet day to go on a whirlwind birding tour in Milford and Stratford. We went to Milford Point first.  There were several species of waterfowl in the marsh, including Gadwall and Bufflehead.  On the sound side of the point, we saw Common Goldeneye, Long-tailed Duck, and Red-breasted Merganser.  A drake Northern Pintail...

New Haven CBC Summary On December 20th, 2014, 84 birders, most of them club members, participated in the 115th annual New Haven Christmas Bird Count.  It was a cool, calm, and gray day without precipitation.  The birding was good along the coast and inland.  A number of interesting and uncommon birds were seen.  Notable sightings included Snow Goose (in...

A Trip Too Far This is the first and LAST time I schedule a fieldtrip on the worst driving weekend of the year – Thanksgiving. I’m rolling it back to Veteran’s Day. The traffic was awful. The birding, however, was great. We got 86 species including about 15,000 Snow Geese, 60 Tundra Swans, 2 groups of Eastern Meadowlarks –...

On November 22nd, 2014, several bird club members and a few other birders met at the entrance to Sherwood Island State Park in Westport for a full morning of birding.  We saw a number of interesting birds at the edge of the woods at the entrance to the park while we waited for the gate to be opened.  The...

Leaders are encouraged to send me a bird list from their walks.  We can post these and other participants can comment on the walks once the list is published....