White-faced Ibis, Hammonasset State Park, 3/331/21

 White-faced Ibis, Hammonasset State Park, 3/331/21

Now a yearly spring event, a White-faced Ibis was discovered yesterday at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, CT. It associates with a flock of Glossy Ibid, which do breed here, and can be separated fro Glossies by its red eye, pink facial skin, and white facial surround; it also has red-pink legs.

March birds, Milford & Environs

March Birds, Milford and Environs

Rusty Blackbird, male, breeding plumage, Eisenhower Park, 3/30/21

Rusty Blackbird, male, breeding plumage, Eisenhower Park, 3/30/21

Green-winged Teal (Eurasian), Milford Point 3/22/21

Green-winged Teal (Eurasian), Milford Point 3/22/21 (with Gadwall)

Piping Plover, Milford Point 3/22/21

Piping Plover, Milford Point 3/22/21

vocalizing Fish Crows, Silver Sands SP, Milford CT 3/18/21

Fish Crows, Silver Sands SP, 3/18/21

Gadwall, 3/6/21

Glaucous Gull, West Haven boat ramp, 3/7/21

hen No. Shoveler, Birdseye boat ramp, Stratford

Piping Plover, 3/9/21, Milford Point

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

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Merlin, 

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Sherwood Island SP

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Sherwood Island SP

Eastern Bluebird, Eisenhower Park

hen Ring-necked Duck, Mondo Ponds

hen Ring-necked Duck, Mondo Ponds

Pied-billed Grebe, Birdseye boat ramp

No. Shoveler drake, Birdseye boat ramp

No. Shoveler drake, Birdseye boat ramp

No. Shoveler drake, Birdseye boat ramp

Pileated Woodpecker, male, Racebrook Tract

Red-shouldered Hawk, Milford Point

Boat-tailed Grackler, Warehouse Pond, Stratford

Europeran Grackle, home

drake American Wigeon, Mondo Ponds

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Walker's Pond

Piping Plover, Milford Point, FOY, 3/9/21; AMOY, 3/11/21

 Piping Plover, Milford Point, FOY, 3/9/21.  Dr. Bill B & Cathy V found the seasons first PIPL at Milford Point this morning, 3/9/21, a very warm day: perhaps the PIL rode the warm front up from the south.  He's a male, and this is the earliest I have ever seen one in Milford.  The Horned Lark is a late straggler.

American Oystercatcher, 3/11/21 Milford Point

PIPL, Milford Point 3/9/21

PIPL, Milford Point 3/9/21

Horned Lark, Milford Point, 3/9/21

Horned Lark, Milford Point, 3/9/21

Glaucous Gull back at Silver Sands 3/6/21

Short video of the Glaucous Gull at Silver Sands State Park in Milford CT

 Glaucous Gull back at Silver Sands 3/6/21

Hoary Redpoll with Common Redpolls, Sherwood Island SP, Westport, 2/4/21

 Hoary Redpoll with Common Redpolls, Sherwood Island SP, Westport, 2/4/21