Curlew Sandpiper (Bird of the Month, July 2022) Top photo:Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris furruginea) Milford, CT, 7/21/2022 © Frank Mantlik Frank Mantlik found this Curlew Sandpiper on July 18, 2022, and noted that this Curlew Sandpiper was the only one currently in the USA and Canada. In fact, it was the only one on eBird in … Read more
Photo above: Short-billed Gull, March 20,2022. Long Beach, Stratford, CT. Photo for eBird by Frank Mantlik Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus) During January 175 bird species were added to initialize this year’s eBird CT “state year list”. Four species were added in February, and in March EIGHTEEN additional new species were added to our state year … Read more
Common (Kamchatka) Gull During January 175 bird species were added to this year’s eBird CT “state year list”, and in February only four new species were added to our state year list (bringing the state year list up to 179 species). Here are those four species, in the proposed rank order of noteworthiness (regardless of how … Read more
Thick-billed Murre The top Bird of the Month (BOTM) bird for January 2022 was Thick-billed Murre (two different individual birds –and now a third one at Harkness on February 2). One was spotted and photographed on Jan.17 by Patrick Dugan (at Cove Island Park) and the second was spotted and photographed at the other end … Read more