Date: 6/12/26 6:47 am From: ed bailey via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Long tailed duck
There is still one at stratford point east side. Molting. 6/12Ed Bailey Monroe
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Date: 6/12/26 6:29 am From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo Cedar Island
9:00-am 8 Oyster catchers,Tom andFran Holloway, Madison Sent from AOL on Android
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Date: 6/10/26 12:36 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
Milford, 6/10/2026. Overcast, 73-78F, high tide-receding. Busy as usual with class visits and other visitors. Many Purple Martins flying around and several in gourds. Many have nests and some have eggs. 4 Rabbits hopping around. On the marsh: 3 D.C. Cormorants, 2 Least terns, 2 Snowy egrets, 3 Great egrets, 3 Herring gulls, 1 Great blue heron, 2 yellow crowned night herons. Our osprey pair have 4 chicks (last one hatched is noticeably smaller than the first 3.) Male brings in a fish around 11:45am and female proceeds to feed all chicks. Two other ospreys from nest across the marsh , flying around. On the grounds & feeders: 4 Catbirds, 4 Mourning doves, 1 mockingbird, 3 Cardinals, 2 Blue Jays, 1 House wren, 5 Robins, 2 Cowbirds, 5 Common grackles, Starlings, House sparrows, House finches, 2 Song sparrows, 2 Fish crows, 3 American crows and a pair of mallards walking around the property, and then at the water fountain. Camp starts next week, so the building will be closed to visitors during the week. Grounds will be open. Bev Propen, Orange
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Date: 6/10/26 6:57 am From: Jim Dugan via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] CT Butterfly Assoc. Annual Meeting Saturday, CT Butterfly Atlas
The CT Butterfly Association will hold its Annual Meeting this Saturday, June 13th from 9am to noon at the CT Audubon Society Milford Point Coastal Center, 1 Milford Point Rd, Milford. Our speaker this year is non other than CT DEEP Wildlife Biologist Laura Saucier who will discuss the upcoming CT Butterfly Atlas (great side gig for every birder). All are welcome regardless of CBA membership. There will be coffee and bagels and a tour of the grounds starting at 11:15am.
Hope y’all can make it,
Jim Dugan
New Milford
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Hi Ed, Noted! I’m coming with binoculars and applause. Baby raven begging
screams are just the most hilarious noises I’ve ever heard.
Sylwia Rosinska
Madison
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Date: 6/9/26 2:42 pm From: ed bailey via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Ravens
At least 2 fledglings demanding to be fed in Monroe this evening. Ed Bailey Monroe
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Date: 6/7/26 7:55 am From: C.S. Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Chat
Any one looking for the chat at Flanders, we just had it at the top of the hill on the power line. Take the blue trail up to the Wilderness Trail and follow all the way to the top. Calling on the far side of the ROW.
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Date: 6/6/26 4:30 am From: Steve Mayo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Black Scoter - New Haven
New Haven SBC. Male Black Scoter photographed in New Haven Harbor from NW corner of East Shore Park (water treatment facility). All black, brilliant yellow knob atop bill.
(New phone, what’s app is a bit wonky, so I can’t post to the New Haven group right now)
Steve Mayo
Guilford
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Date: 6/5/26 8:25 am From: C Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Chat
Yellow-breasted Chat continues at Flanders Van Vleck Sanctuary in Woodbury, calling (singing?) intermittently on the power line ROW. Nice find by David K. My 130th species for this Sanctuary. https://ebird.org/checklist/S352377583
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Date: 6/4/26 3:45 am From: Warble Bird Songs via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] request beta testers for birding app
Greetings bird enthusiasts,
Warble Bird Songs, an ear-birding app, is requesting your help. Our small
team is looking for beta testers to try out this nearly completed app and
provide feedback. Tired of automatic app-generated identifications? Ever
struggled with terminology to describe a sound? Warble Bird Songs will
help! It builds ear-birding skills by developing your pattern recognition
skills. It contains tutorials and provides a new and interactive approach
to learning bird sound.
Warble Bird Songs contains accessibility features that make it an effective
tool for blind and visually impaired users to learn ear-birding. In fact,
that is the primary goal of the app. Yet sighted users will find it useful
without even realizing these underlying features.
We’re a not-for-profit endeavor. Please help us improve the app that will
allow the blind and sighted to become better ear-birders independently. All
skill levels from beginner to advanced are welcomed. For more information
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Thank you and happy spring birding!
Kristie Nelson
Warble Bird Songs app
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Date: 6/3/26 12:36 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
6/3 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM. sunny, 75-80F , low tide rising. Very busy as usual with class visits and other visitors. Our ospreys have 4 chicks! 4th chick must have hatched recently because it is noticeably smaller than the other 3. Male brought in a fish at 12:20PM. Female was feeding the chicks, and male was feeding the female as well as the chicks. Our Purple martin colony is active with several nests started and one nest has 5 eggs already. On the marsh: 4 Great Egrets, 2 Snowy Egrets, 4 mallards, 2 Least terns, 1 Yellow crowned night heron. At one point, the YC night heron immersed itself in the marsh up to its neck and sat there for a while. Then it came out and was sunning and drying off on the marsh edge. On the grounds & feeders: 6 Catbirds, 2 Mockingbirds, many Red winged blackbirds and Common grackles, House sparrows, 2 Song sparrows, 1 House wren, 1 Goldfinch, 2 House finches, Northern Cardinals, Blue jays and Starlings. Bev Propen, Orange
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Date: 6/2/26 3:34 pm From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] North Granby - Common Nighthawk
One belated Nighthawk surprised me around 1:35 this afternoon as I walked along the powerline easement in the Granby Land Trust’s Griffin Preserve.
John Weeks
North Granby
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Date: 6/2/26 11:56 am From: Joe Bear via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] An Anecdotal Snippet
6/2- Allen’s Meadow, Wilton
We’ve been trying for 4 years to establish a Purple Martin colony at New Pond Farm Education Center in Redding; each year 2nd yr birds check out the gourds but don’t stick around. Today while monitoring the 14 Eastern Bluebird boxes I have around the meadow at Allen’s, I was stunned to hear PUMA singing. Sure enough a pair of birds was checking out one of the boxes- they won’t nest with that setup but the irony was marked.
Joe Bear
Wilton
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Go GATORS!
"In every walk in nature one receives far more than one seeks."
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Date: 6/2/26 6:19 am From: ed bailey via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Mourning warbler male
Still at greathollow lake/wolf park in Monroe. Found by another yesterday. By red trailer near oak Grove picnic area. 9amEd Bailey Monroe
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Date: 6/1/26 10:01 am From: Robert B. via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Lawrence's Warbler
My yard in Pomfret today: Blue-winged X Golden-winged Warbler. Backcross Lawrence's (Sibley 2nd ed, p.472); individual has black throat but lacks complete black mask. Excellent looks: I thought I was photographing a Blue-winged--big surprise reviewing the photos. Regular Blue-winged also present.
Bob Bitondi Pomfret Ctr
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Date: 6/1/26 6:58 am From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Harkness SP, Waterford
8:30 -10:00- 1 piping plover, 3 least terns, 20 common eider.Tom and Fran Holloway, Madison
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Date: 6/1/26 4:28 am From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] North Granby, 6/1 - Olive-sided Flycatcher
Whistling repeatedly from the woods behind our house at 7:15 am. This seems a bit on the late side for one to show up here.
John Weeks North Granby
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Date: 5/31/26 7:22 am From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo Willards I.
8:45-9:45 - 2 seaside sparrows in west marsh, one brown thrasher at end of Willards, Merlin heard Blackburnian.Tom and Fran Holloway. Madison
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Date: 5/30/26 9:54 am From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Flycatchers
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This morning at the Newberry Road section of stn 43 South Windsor Alder and Willow Flycatchers calling simultanecously. Nice for comparison!
Paul Desjardins Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/29/26 7:27 am From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Hammo Cedar Island
8:45 -19:15 - Oyster Catcher, boat railed freckles, little blue heron on the way back.Tom and Fran Holloway, Madison
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Date: 5/29/26 6:14 am From: John Weeks via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] North Granby, 5/29 - Swainson's Thrush
A Swainson’s Thrush was singing softly at 9:00 AM today in the woods just behind our back yard, by far the latest spring date here.
John Weeks
North Granby
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Date: 5/28/26 4:31 pm From: Andrew McGann via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Merlin, beware!
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Salut Greg,
Merci pour l'info. C'est intéressant de voir comment le Vermont gère ces
protocoles de signalement dans eBird, surtout avec leur population de
Parulines à ailes dorées. Je vais aller jeter un œil à cet article pour
voir comment leurs directives ont évolué.
Merci encore pour le partage.
Bonne observation,
Andy McGann
On Monexe Dr « 6E, May 22, 2023 at 1:15 PM Gregory Hanisek <
<ctgregh...> wrote:
> Thanks Andy. For anyone interested, a Google search for Winged-warblers in
> Vermont should lead to an article on the subject that contains a link to a
> protocol VT established for reporting the various forms in eBird. This is
> based on VT still having a viable Golden-winged fr’dur
>
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Date: 5/28/26 10:43 am From: C Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Hummingbird houses?
doubtful with our hummingbirds (Ruby-throated) which prefer a nest site near the drooping end of a tree limb, ideally over somewhat open forest floor and near or over water. Some hummingbird species do nest in rock crevices and niches, but not here.
> On May 28, 2026, at 12:09 PM, Dixie Sanderson via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> For Mother's Day I was given a set of 3 little hummingbird houses. I have
> never heard of such a thing. Is it possible that they would even consider
> using them? They don't have a hole like a bird house, but one side is open
> and there is a perch in the front. Cute, but I am questioning their value
> as a bird house.
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Date: 5/28/26 10:30 am From: Rob Ballinger via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Phoebe off nest
I've waited 10 years for a phoebe to nest in the yard and they finally did. Problem is we're getting a roof replaced today so they have been forced off the nest. I think they completed the clutch a few days ago. Anyone have any idea if the eggs will survive if they aren't incubated all day? I'm hoping the crew is done before too late and the birds will return after such commotion for such a long time.
Rob Ballinger Sad in Clinton
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Date: 5/28/26 9:59 am From: Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Great Crested Flyctachers
We have a couple vocal pairs of great crested flycatchers near Windsor locks Canal state park. Much fewer bug eaters overall. Each spring a specific flying insect emerges on time for chimney swifts and swallows. This year we had noticeably fewer number of swifts and swallows; also noticeable by the increase in length of time the bugs have been clinging to the screens and getting inside. I believe they’re called shad flies known for being a food source when the shad fish are running. Perhaps all the railroad station construction has kept the birds away?
Christina Nieves
Windsor locks
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> On May 28, 2026, at 11:08 AM, Susannah Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> The great crested flycatchers are still hanging around and so much more numerous than I've ever experienced. All the dead ashes and dying beech trees must be partly signficant? Wood thrushes, whom I usually hear earlier in migration and then not so much, seem more plentiful too, still around and singing. I keep hoping for a cuckoo!
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Date: 5/28/26 9:37 am From: Sarah Faulkner via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Hummingbird houses?
That fake ad is astonishing!! Hummingbirds make their nests in open trees,
not cavities. When the leaves fell last fall I found two in my neighbor's
tree that none of us knew were there. But I do get them at my feeder, and
get to watch the youngsters learning to hunt fruit flies in my garden.
Honestly, that fake site looked real. I feel bad for folks who fall for
things like this.
Thank you, Dixie, for asking the question in the first place.
Sarah Faulkner
Collinsville
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Sorry they won’t be adopted by hummingbirds ! I hope they are a least cute?
Rick
New Haven
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Date: Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Subject: [CT Birds] Hummingbird houses?
For Mother's Day I was given a set of 3 little hummingbird houses. I have
never heard of such a thing. Is it possible that they would even consider
using them? They don't have a hole like a bird house, but one side is open
and there is a perch in the front. Cute, but I am questioning their value
as a bird house.
Dixie Sanderson
Guilford
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Date: 5/28/26 9:10 am From: Dixie Sanderson via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Hummingbird houses?
For Mother's Day I was given a set of 3 little hummingbird houses. I have never heard of such a thing. Is it possible that they would even consider using them? They don't have a hole like a bird house, but one side is open and there is a perch in the front. Cute, but I am questioning their value as a bird house.
Dixie Sanderson
Guilford
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Date: 5/28/26 8:09 am From: Susannah Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Great Crested Flyctachers
The great crested flycatchers are still hanging around and so much more numerous than I've ever experienced. All the dead ashes and dying beech trees must be partly signficant? Wood thrushes, whom I usually hear earlier in migration and then not so much, seem more plentiful too, still around and singing. I keep hoping for a cuckoo!
Susannah Norfolk
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Date: 5/28/26 6:53 am From: MICKY KOMARA via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] possible Western Meadowlark
Just learned that consensus on the bird seen late yesterday foraging near the puddles at Hammo Nature Center grassy parking is leaning towards a Western meadowlark. See checklist for more details: https://ebird.org/checklist/S348037845 Micky KomaraWestbrook CT
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Date: 5/28/26 6:31 am From: Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Off the Deck
5/25- Wood Duck fly over; 5/26 FOY Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Osprey; 5/27 Barred Owl early AM; 5/28 small flock of Cedar Waxwings. Ernie, Colchester
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Date: 5/28/26 5:50 am From: Rick Kenneally via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Louisiana Waterthrush
In overgrown wetland on the red trail at Woodcock Nature Center in north Wilton.
Rick Kenneally Wilton
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Date: 5/27/26 11:30 am From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
5/27 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 9:20am-1PM. overcast, 75-80F, high tide-receding. Very busy at the center today with class visits as well as many human visitors and people for a bird walk. Our ospreys are a hit. Two chicks have hatched. The male brought in a fish around 11:40am- female ate some and then proceeded to feed the two chicks. She fed them again around 12:15pm. Then she settled back on the nest. On the marsh: 13 Brant, 5 flyover Canada Geese, 10 D.C. Cormorants far out, 3 Least terns fishing, a flock of Semipalmated sandpipers flew by and 1 Great Egret. (viewed with scope and bins). On the grounds & feeders: Our Purple martin colony has many flying around and going in and out of the gourds, 6 Catbirds, 2 Blue jays, 4 Cardinals, many House sparrows, 6 House finches, 8 Mourning doves, 3 Song sparrows, 2 Tree swallows flying over, 1 Goldfinch, 4 Robins, 2 Redstarts, 1 House wren, a Fish Crow, an Eastern Kingbird, 2 Chickadees and a pair of mallards that have been hanging out together in the marsh and walking around the grounds. Bev Propen, Orange
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Date: 5/27/26 8:42 am From: Michael DiGiorgio via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Summer Hill Road
A morning walk on Summer Hill Road produced the following birds: Blue-winged, Black & White, Worn-eating and Yellow Warblers, Ovenbird, Yellowthroat, Wood Thrush, Veery, Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Phoebe and Great-crested Flycatcher, Northern and Louisiana Waterthrush, Cedar Waxwings, Yellow-throated and Red-eyes Vireos, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Scarlet Tanager and northern Raven. Mike DiGiorgio Website: mdigiorgio.com
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Date: 5/26/26 11:22 am From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Mourning Warbler
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Heard only this morning along Greenwoods Road in Barkhamsted. Also audio Alder Flycatcher.
Paul Desjardins Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/25/26 12:59 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Alder Flycatcher
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Seen and heard this afternoon at Greenstone Hollow Sanctuary in East Granby Also a very late audio White Throated Sparrow.
Paul Desjardins Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/23/26 8:49 am From: Ernest Harris via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Off the Deck
5/23/26; 6:15-7:15AM: 26 species including: Great-crested Flycatcher, Great Blue heron ( fly over), Louisiana Waterthrush, Wood Thrush, Baltimore Oriole, the two Wrens, Veery and Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Delightful! Ernie, Colchester
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Date: 5/22/26 5:08 pm From: FRANK GALLO via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Sunrise Birding Walks cancelled this weekend
Hi folks,
My Sunrise Birding trips to Boston Hollow and Hartman Park this weekend are cancelled due to weather.
I have a walk to Mohawk Mountain, West Cornwall on Saturday, June 13. Details are at Sunrisebirding.com.
Good birding.
Frank GalloNew Canaan
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Date: 5/22/26 4:21 pm From: DeWitt Allen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Cancellation New Haven Bird Club walk Sunday, May 24
Because of the consistently unfavorable forecasts for rain, the New Haven Bird Club's walk on Sunday, May 24 at Barn Island has regretfully been cancelled.
DeWitt Allen Outdoor Programs Chair New Haven Bird Club
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Date: 5/22/26 2:54 pm From: ed bailey via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Brant migration
I had 30ish brant fly over my yard in Monroe I did not think they flew inland,I have never seen them I believe north of Rt.15 before new yard bird 1st heard then seen.Ed Bailey Monroe
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Date: 5/22/26 7:21 am From: Donna Rose Smith via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Red-cross bills
5/22 Mohawk state forest, Cornwall, at Black-spruce bog 7 Red-cross bills. Donna Rose Smith with Litchfield Hills Audubon group
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Date: 5/21/26 5:49 am From: Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CT Birds email settings
Hello again –
I need to clarify something: The issue only involves whether you receive CT Birds emails.
If you suddenly began receiving emails and did not previously, I can fix that.
No other settings (digest or not) were changed.
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> On May 20, 2026, at 11:38 AM, Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> Hello again everyone –
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> Due to an update by our server support vendor, all accounts on CT Birds were set to receive an email for each post vs. getting a Digest or not receiving emails at all.
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> Unfortunately, the vendor was unable to reverse the update.
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> You can reply to me directly if you want me to change your settings. Please remember not to 'reply to all' or your message will go to the entire listserv.
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> Thank you for your patience with this unfortunate situation.
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Date: 5/20/26 5:53 pm From: DAN HEDDEN via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Whip-poor-will
Amazingly I just had a Whip-poor-will singing in my yard off of Marion road in Cheshire. I have never heard one here in the 35+ years that I have lived here… certainly made my evening!
Dan Hedden
Cheshire
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Date: 5/20/26 1:10 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
5/20 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM. sunny, 85F, low tide rising. Very busy at the center today with class visitors and our human visitors. We had a visitor from India the other day and today visitors from Paris. Our Purple Martin colony is busy with many birds carrying in nesting materials. On the marsh: 3 Ospreys, (our male on his perch & flying around, female on the nest) and another osprey from a local nest, 2 Canada Geese, about 87 Brant, 2 mallards, 2 Mute Swans, 1 Semipalmated Plover on the mudflat, 6 D.C. Cormorants, 1 Yellow crowned night heron, 4 Great Egrets, a flock of Willets and a flock of Least Sandpipers flew over. On the grounds & feeders: 4 Mourning doves, 3 Song sparrows, several grackles, 4 House finches, 1 Magnolia warbler and 1 Blackpoll warbler, Blue jays, Robins, House sparrows, Cardinals, many Red winged blackbirds 2 Cedar waxwings, Catbirds and 1 Mockingbird. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange
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Date: 5/20/26 8:48 am From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Bauer Park, Madison
10 - 10:45, Orchard Oriole near gardens, along with a pair of Baltimore and a Warbling Vireo.Tom Holloway, Madison
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Date: 5/20/26 8:38 am From: Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] CT Birds email settings
Hello again everyone –
Due to an update by our server support vendor, all accounts on CT Birds were set to receive an email for each post vs. getting a Digest or not receiving emails at all.
Unfortunately, the vendor was unable to reverse the update.
You can reply to me directly if you want me to change your settings. Please remember not to 'reply to all' or your message will go to the entire listserv.
Thank you for your patience with this unfortunate situation.
Chuck Imbergamo
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Sadly, a dead blackburnian warbler on the ground in Planet Fitness gym’s parking lot in Woodbridge.
semeon tsalbins
woodbridge
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Date: 5/19/26 8:38 am From: ed bailey via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Black skimmer
At milford point at 11:30 in lagoon not seen one in 4 years. 5/19/26Ed Bailey Monroe
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Date: 5/19/26 7:25 am From: Michael DiGiorgio via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Summer Hill Road Birds
Birding Summer Hill Road today north of Rt 80 produced the following birds- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Yellow-throated and Red-eyed Vireo, Yellowthroat, Redstart, Yellow, Worm-eating, Blue-winged, BT Green, and Black and Warblers, Louisiana and Northern Waterthrush, Ovenbird, Baltimore Oriole, Eastern Towhee, Great- crested Flycatcher, Phoebe, Cedar Waxwings, Scarlet Tanager, Wood Thrush, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pileated Woodpecker, Northern Raven, and Broad-winged Hawks. Mike DiGiorgio Website: mdigiorgio.com
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Date: 5/18/26 9:29 pm From: Rick Baumhauer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Brant migration 5/12
This just reminded me that I saw a flock of just over 200 Brant migrating over West Haven on 5/12.
Rick Baumhauer West Haven
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Scoter & Brant flight 5/18. During a late day coastal watch with Tom Murray at Short Beach, Stratford, we tallied 269 migrating White- winged Scoters (6 flocks) and a single migrating flock of maybe 500 Brant . Frank Mantlik Stratford
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Date: 5/18/26 9:20 pm From: Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Scoter & Brant migration 5/18
Scoter & Brant flight 5/18. During a late day coastal watch with Tom Murray at Short Beach, Stratford, we tallied 269 migrating White- winged Scoters (6 flocks) and a single migrating flock of maybe 500 Brant . Frank Mantlik Stratford
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Date: 5/18/26 2:29 pm From: Ellynne Rey via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Spotted SP in Darien
Not rare but I don’t recall seeing a Spotted Sandpiper at Sellecks Woods
before. Tonight, taking an after work stroll one was bopping around the
west side of the lake.
Ellynne Rey
(Stamford, CT)
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Date: 5/18/26 2:20 pm From: Susannah Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Great day yesterday at Haystack State Park, Norfolk
My list included songs and sights. Highlights were scarlet tanagers singing and flying, yellow-throated vireos, redstarts, several wood thrushes, one of whom perched right in front of me, one hermit thrush, several black-throated blues singing overhead, l chestnut-sided warblers and a great view of a black and white gleaning as well as a female gathering nesting material, a great crested flycatcher, several indigo buntings and a blackburnian at the very top of a tree right in the sun. Merlin insisted there was a wormeating warbler in the deeper woods. I’m not really counting it as it’s song is like so many others but I’m hoping that’s what it was! Now I need to actually see one.
Susannah
Norfolk
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Date: 5/18/26 7:36 am From: Angela Dimmitt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Canada Warbler - New Milford
Singing its head off this morning, moving fairly high through the trees and feeding. Angela Dimmitt New Milford
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Date: 5/18/26 5:51 am From: leslieameredith via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Westport Blackburnian and Blackpoll
Very excited to have a Blackburnian warbler and a Blackpoll in my pin oak. Along with Redstart, Northern Parula who have been hanging around for a few days. Ovenbird at end of road in ravine has been here for a couple weeks hope he stays. A Cedar Waxwing there must be more but can’t see them.
Also have Carolina wrens thankful after reading the awful reports here.
Leslie Meredith
Westport
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Date: 5/18/26 5:09 am From: Elena COFFEY via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6850, Issue 1
Carolina wrens
I've noticed the same thing about the Carolina Wren. I don't hear any in the neighborhood and I've had them here for years. This spring before nesting season started, I found an abandoned Carolina nest with five eggs so, they disappeared last summer. I was wondering if others had noticed a decline. Thank you, Paul and Sarah for bringing the subject up.i really miss them!
For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
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Date: 5/18/26 5:05 am From: Jim Zipp via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
Hamden/Cheshire line yard. Bummer on the Carolina Wren numbers. Happy to say we still have ours and they have fledged the first batch in our barn about a week ago. Almost stepped on one young one in my shop out there and then heard the chicks peeping from all over. That's when I abandon my shop for a couple days to let them clear out. Adults still going in and out getting ready to start again. Usually 3 batches.
Jim Zipp Bird Photography www.JimZipp.com
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Date: 5/18/26 4:54 am From: perrier04 via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wren
In East Windsor, my friend has a male Carolina Wren in her back yard, and often another male within earshot. No feeder, so females and young are seldom seen. This year, she definitely has the one in her yard, but I haven't heard the second.
Michael Santner Westfield, MA
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Date: 5/18/26 4:35 am From: Charles Makarewich via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Common Nighthawks
From Charles Makarewich Evening of May 17, Common Nighthawks in Kent Hollow First Mayfly landed on my arm then looked up to see several FOY nighthawks feasting on them. Quite the aerialists.
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I found my local Carolina wrench flightless after a large snow this winter,
and caught it and brought it to a rehabber. While I was there, the rehabber
informed me that she and other rehabbers were receiving many more than they
usually get. They are a southern species pushing north m, and we haven’t
had a winter like that in years. It’s very probable that the season wiped
out a large number.
Jonathan Green
Vernon
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> Sadly - most definitely. My resident pair has vanished, although a new
> male was signing here yesterday.
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> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina
> Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census.
> Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
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> Paul Desjardins
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We lost our pair, too. At first we lost the male, while the female hung on living under the bicycle tarp, but then she also disappeared. It was a very tough winter for southern birds.Mary Mushinsky, Wallingford
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----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Christopher Loscalzo via CTBirds" <ctbirds...> <mailto:<ctbirds...>> To: "Birds CT" <ctbirds...> <mailto:<ctbirds...>> Cc: Sent: Sun, May 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens We lost our local pair of wrens with the second cold snap this winter, too. It surprised us as they seemed to be doing well until then and we had food out for them (suet and peanuts) at all times. We’ve noticed fewer Carolina Wrens wherever we’ve gone birding in CT this spring. The first objective measure of their apparent population decline will come next month with the summer bird counts. It seems likely that their numbers will be down by at least 50%. The good news is that this has happened before and they have recovered quickly and well after previous super cold winters.
Chris Loscalzo and Marianne Vahey
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Date: 5/18/26 3:33 am From: Chuck Imbergamo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Delayed posts
On Sunday our server experienced a problem where it was not processing received posts at the time they were posted.
Despite being sent earlier in the day, posts did not get processed until the evening and overnight.
Please be aware that several posts were duplicated as a result of this issue.
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Date: 5/17/26 7:33 pm From: mary mushinsky via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Fw: Carolina Wrens
We lost our pair, too. At first we lost the male, while the female hung on living under the bicycle tarp, but then she also disappeared. It was a very tough winter for southern birds.Mary Mushinsky, Wallingford
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----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Christopher Loscalzo via CTBirds" <ctbirds...> To: "Birds CT" <ctbirds...> Cc: Sent: Sun, May 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens We lost our local pair of wrens with the second cold snap this winter, too. It surprised us as they seemed to be doing well until then and we had food out for them (suet and peanuts) at all times. We’ve noticed fewer Carolina Wrens wherever we’ve gone birding in CT this spring. The first objective measure of their apparent population decline will come next month with the summer bird counts. It seems likely that their numbers will be down by at least 50%. The good news is that this has happened before and they have recovered quickly and well after previous super cold winters.
Chris Loscalzo and Marianne Vahey
Woodbridge
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Date: 5/17/26 5:06 pm From: Jonathan Green via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Carolina Wrens
I found my local Carolina wrench flightless after a large snow this winter,
and caught it and brought it to a rehabber. While I was there, the rehabber
informed me that she and other rehabbers were receiving many more than they
usually get. They are a southern species pushing north m, and we haven’t
had a winter like that in years. It’s very probable that the season wiped
out a large number.
Jonathan Green
Vernon
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> Sadly - most definitely. My resident pair has vanished, although a new
> male was signing here yesterday.
> Angela Dimmitt
> New Milford
> On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 12:30:11 AM EDT, Paul Desjardins via
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> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina
> Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census.
> Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>
> Paul Desjardins
> Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/17/26 3:50 pm From: Adam Fasciolo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
We live further south (I think) than any of the previous responders. And fortunately, our Carolina Wren pair survived the winter and have been busy in our yard all spring. It’s probably due to location. But we also have a raised shed (about 1 foot) in the back of our property, which has a gravel bed under it and butts up against the stone wall where I believe they nest. That could have given them additional shelter and access to our feeders this winter.
It’s a shame that their numbers are down overall. And I’m not sure if they were affected worse in more northern states or (hopefully) less so in places further south than Connecticut.
Adam and Jo Fasciolo
Norwalk
> On May 17, 2026, at 6:26 PM, Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> In my experience this spring,the number of Carolina Wrens is way down. And Our pair from early winter have been absent in our yard for months.
>
> Frank Mantlik
> Stratford.
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>> On May 17, 2026, at 1:30 AM, Tom Baptist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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>> For six consecutive winters, Carolina wrens have wintered and then nested at our East Hampton property. This past winter however, we did not observe the wrens after the second cold snap, and no wrens are present now.
>>
>> Tom Baptist
>> East Hampton
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>>>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:42 AM, Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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>>> I’ve seen Carolina Wrens near the Windsor Locks Canal Park. I usually bird around the grounds right before entering the park on Windsor Locks side, between the river and canal. There’s been at least one or two there regularly and saw one yesterday.
>>> Christina Nieves
>>> Windsor Locks
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:12 AM, Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
>>>>> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
>>>>> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
>>>>> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
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>>>>> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Desjardins
>>>>> Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/17/26 3:45 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Gray Cheeked Thrush
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Seen this morning at Cedar Hill Hartford/Wethersfield. Also Tennessee and Bay Breasted Warblers.
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Date: 5/17/26 3:28 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] test
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Date: 5/17/26 3:27 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Gray Cheeked Thrush
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Seen this morning at the entrance to Cedar Hill Hartford/Wethersfield. Not sure where the town line is. Also seen were a Tennessee Warbler and Bay Breasted Warbler in the Hartford section.
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Date: 5/17/26 3:26 pm From: Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
In my experience this spring,the number of Carolina Wrens is way down. And Our pair from early winter have been absent in our yard for months.
Frank Mantlik
Stratford.
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> On May 17, 2026, at 1:30 AM, Tom Baptist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> For six consecutive winters, Carolina wrens have wintered and then nested at our East Hampton property. This past winter however, we did not observe the wrens after the second cold snap, and no wrens are present now.
>
> Tom Baptist
> East Hampton
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>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:42 AM, Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>
>> I’ve seen Carolina Wrens near the Windsor Locks Canal Park. I usually bird around the grounds right before entering the park on Windsor Locks side, between the river and canal. There’s been at least one or two there regularly and saw one yesterday.
>> Christina Nieves
>> Windsor Locks
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:12 AM, Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>>
>>> For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
>>>> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
>>>> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
>>>> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
>>>> <ctbirds...>
>>>> Message-ID: <62BE490A-E9CB-4307-9E04-E5934DCF3228...>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Desjardins
>>>> <paul.desjardins2...>
>>>> Phone: (860) 623-3696
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>>>>
>>>> Paul Desjardins
>>>> Windsor Locks
>>>>
>>>>
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Date: 5/17/26 3:24 pm From: DAN HEDDEN via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
We had a similar situation in our yard in Cheshire; we had a pair that disappeared after the prolonged cold snap.
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> On May 16, 2026, at 4:30 PM, Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
>> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
>> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
>> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
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>>
>> Paul Desjardins
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>> Phone: (860) 623-3696
>>
>> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>>
>> Paul Desjardins
>> Windsor Locks
>>
>>
>>
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Sadly - most definitely. My resident pair has vanished, although a new male was signing here yesterday.
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford
On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 12:30:11 AM EDT, Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/17/26 3:22 pm From: leslieameredith via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: I haven't been getting the emails, and would like to.
Like Florence I don’t seem to be getting most of the emails either! Please advise! I’m sure I’m missing warbler and other alerts. Thank you.
Leslie
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> On May 15, 2026, at 4:30 PM, Florence McBride via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> Hi, Chuck,
>
> I’m not aware of having done anything that would cause me to stop getting the cttbirds emails, but that’s happened.
>
> Can you let me know how I can get reinstated, at <fmcb_warbler...> <mailto:<fmcb_warbler...>? I’d especially appreciate that because it’s still warbler season! For some reason my husband (at <j.mcbride...> <mailto:<j.mcbride...>) got a post from Victor Quintanilla via CTBirds <ctbirds...> <mailto:<ctbirds...>> this morning, but I didn’t!
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> Thanks, and thanks for all your work as moderator,
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> Flo
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Date: 5/17/26 3:21 pm From: Paul Fusco via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
Same here in Oxford. I’m afraid that second cold snap did in the Carolina wrens.
Paul Fusco
Oxford, CT
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> On May 17, 2026, at 1:30 AM, Tom Baptist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> For six consecutive winters, Carolina wrens have wintered and then nested at our East Hampton property. This past winter however, we did not observe the wrens after the second cold snap, and no wrens are present now.
>
> Tom Baptist
> East Hampton
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:42 AM, Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>
>> I’ve seen Carolina Wrens near the Windsor Locks Canal Park. I usually bird around the grounds right before entering the park on Windsor Locks side, between the river and canal. There’s been at least one or two there regularly and saw one yesterday.
>> Christina Nieves
>> Windsor Locks
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:12 AM, Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>>
>>> For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
>>>> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
>>>> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
>>>> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
>>>> <ctbirds...>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Desjardins
>>>> <paul.desjardins2...>
>>>> Phone: (860) 623-3696
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>>>>
>>>> Paul Desjardins
>>>> Windsor Locks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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Date: 5/17/26 3:15 pm From: Jack Swatt via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Grasshopper Sparrow at Roberts Field, Bristol
At least one Grasshopper Sparrow has returned to Roberts Field in Bristol. I was there yesterday afternoon and thought I heard the soft buzzy trill of the sparrows, and Merlin picked up on it as well. Because there were distant blue wing warblers calling as well, I wanted to listen to the recordings first and make sure it wasn’t a mis-identification. Sure enough, it was there.  Hopefully, there’s a pair and they’ll have a successful nesting season.
Jack Swatt
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Date: 5/17/26 3:13 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Gray Cheeked Thrush
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Seen this morning at Hartford/Wethersfield section of Cedar Hill. Also Tennessee and Bay Breasted Warblers.
Paul Desjardins Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/17/26 3:11 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Gray Cheeked Thrush
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Seen this morning at the entrance to Cedar Hill Hartford/Wethersfield. Not sure where the town line is. Also seen were Tennessee Warbler and Bay Breasted Warbler in the Hartford section.
Paul Desjardins Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/17/26 3:10 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] test
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Date: 5/16/26 6:09 pm From: Christopher Loscalzo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
We lost our local pair of wrens with the second cold snap this winter, too. It surprised us as they seemed to be doing well until then and we had food out for them (suet and peanuts) at all times. We’ve noticed fewer Carolina Wrens wherever we’ve gone birding in CT this spring. The first objective measure of their apparent population decline will come next month with the summer bird counts. It seems likely that their numbers will be down by at least 50%. The good news is that this has happened before and they have recovered quickly and well after previous super cold winters.
Chris Loscalzo and Marianne Vahey
Woodbridge
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Date: 5/16/26 8:23 am From: Tom Baptist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
For six consecutive winters, Carolina wrens have wintered and then nested at our East Hampton property. This past winter however, we did not observe the wrens after the second cold snap, and no wrens are present now.
Tom Baptist
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> On May 16, 2026, at 8:42 AM, Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> I’ve seen Carolina Wrens near the Windsor Locks Canal Park. I usually bird around the grounds right before entering the park on Windsor Locks side, between the river and canal. There’s been at least one or two there regularly and saw one yesterday.
> Christina Nieves
> Windsor Locks
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>> On May 16, 2026, at 8:12 AM, Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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>> For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
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>>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
>>> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
>>> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
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>>> Paul Desjardins
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>>> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>>>
>>> Paul Desjardins
>>> Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/16/26 7:55 am From: ftholloway--- via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Guida Farm. Middletown
8:30 -9:45. Several pairs of migrants, rose-breasted grosbeaks, yellow-billed cuckoos, and scarlet tanagers. Many woodthrush, ovenbirds, and veeries heard. Not too many warblers.Tom and Fran Holloway, Madison
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Date: 5/16/26 5:42 am From: Christina Nieves via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
I’ve seen Carolina Wrens near the Windsor Locks Canal Park. I usually bird around the grounds right before entering the park on Windsor Locks side, between the river and canal. There’s been at least one or two there regularly and saw one yesterday.
Christina Nieves
Windsor Locks
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> On May 16, 2026, at 8:12 AM, Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
>> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
>> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
>> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
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>> Paul Desjardins
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>> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>>
>> Paul Desjardins
>> Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/16/26 5:12 am From: Sarah Middeleer via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: CTBirds Digest, Vol 6849, Issue 1
For the last few years I had a pair of Carolina wrens in my yard. They were still here during the winter, but one didn't seem to survive the second cold snap, and the other one disappeared a short time later. No sign of any Carolina wrens since then.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:32 -0400
> From: Paul Desjardins <paul.desjardins2...>
> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
> To: COA - Connecticut Ornithological Association
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> Paul Desjardins
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> Phone: (860) 623-3696
>
> I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
>
> Paul Desjardins
> Windsor Locks
>
>
>
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Date: 5/15/26 5:13 pm From: Donna Rose Smith via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Common Nighthawk
5/14 from Russ Naylor at Woodbury Middle School, CT swift watch he had 1 Common Nighthawk at 8 pm
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Date: 5/15/26 12:43 pm From: Paul Desjardins via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Carolina Wrens
Paul Desjardins
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I am wondering if the severe cold this winter had an effect on Carolina Wrens as I have not seen or heard one for Hartford Audubon’s spring census. Has anyone else noticed a drop in number of this species?
Paul Desjardins
Windsor Locks
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Date: 5/15/26 3:56 am From: Sarah Faulkner via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Great start to the day
Arriving at East Granby Middle School this morning, I got nine species in just 5 minutes from the parking lot, starting with two very vocal Baltimore orioles, a black-throated green warbler, a black and white warbler, a chipping sparrow, and more. Nice way to start the day!
Sarah Faulkner Collinsville, CT
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Date: 5/13/26 12:48 pm From: Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Franklins Gull! And 3 Red Knots Statford
5/13 Stratford: Adult FRANKLIN’s GULL just flew past me at Short Beach, Stratford 3:35. This while I was tracking 3 Red Knots.
Frank Mantlik
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Date: 5/13/26 12:17 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
5/13 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM. overcast , a bit rainy early, 57-60F, high tide-receding. Busy as usual at the coastal center with class visits and other human visitors. On the marsh: Our ospreys are nesting-male on his perch and female on the nest. Many Purple Martins at the gourds. 1 Mallard under the front bird feeders, 1 Fish crow, 2 Catbirds feeding on the oranges on the deck, 5 Mourning doves, a Goldfinch, House finches, song sparrows, Cardinals and several Common grackles. On the marsh: 1 Great Egret, 2 Tree swallows, 1 Least tern, 2 mallards, 2 Oystercatchers and about 250 Brant spread out around the marsh/ A walk with one of our visitors on the LIS sound side had many Piping Plovers (some scurrying about and others in nest enclosures), about 25 Ruddy Turnstones, Least sandpipers, Semipalmated plovers and sandpipers. There were several large flocks (sandpipers & plovers) flying along the shoreline. Bev Propen, Orange
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