Trip Leader:   Annette Pasek
Great Pond, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, US
Sep 23, 2020 8:01 AM – 10:17 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.322 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Seven of us gathered at Great Pond preserve in South Glastonbury. Winds were mild with a chilly start at 55 degrees and clear skies. Entrance provided good birding as well as the mud flats at the pond.

Best birds, Sandpipers Solitary / Least, Lesser Yellowleg, Killdeer, Warblers / Black and White, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian.

28 species include:

Mourning Dove  2
Killdeer  4
Least Sandpiper  17
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  2     Good looks bill length not as long as greater bigger than solitary near one another.
Great Blue Heron  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  2     One immature
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  7
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  3
Carolina Wren  3
Gray Catbird  4
American Robin  10
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  6
Chipping Sparrow  2
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1