SUMMER BIRD COUNT 2010 Schedule
Joe Zeranski, Compiler Posted May 6, 2010
If you have not yet taken part in a Summer Bird Count, you have missed a wonderful birding experience. Many birders find the SBC to be an enjoyable warm weather adventure that sharpens their birding skills in company with their fellow birders and produces valuable scientific data at the same time. Take advantage of this opportunity to find a good variety of our nesting birds and enhance your ability to recognize their vocalizations and note their individual behavior by participating in a Summer Bird Count this June. As you canvas your assigned areas you can become reacquainted with popular avian favorites and, from time to time, find unexpected treats.
In addition, the SBC is a unique opportunity for birders to help shed light on the changing dynamics of our all important breeding bird populations. The SBC is an early warning system for declining species. Its data is a basis for developing conservation programs to protect birds and their habitats, especially important for our threatened and endangered species.
This year please do join in. Below are the Connecticut Summer Bird Counts, their dates, and the compilers. Plan to contact a nearby compiler.
Barkhamsted Summer Bird Count June 26 & 27, Compiler: David Rosgen (121 Laurel Way, Winsted, CT 06098-2534; dave@whitememorialcc.org), Area covered: Colebrook, Winchester, Hartland, Barkhamsted, and New Hartford, plus the northeast quarter of Torrington and the northern quarters of Harwinton and Burlington.
Greenwich-Stamford Summer Bird Count June 12 & 13, Compilers: Thomas W. Burke (235 Highland Road, Rye, NY 10580; tom.burke@rsmi.com ) , Gary Palmer(34 Field Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807; gejlpalmer@yahoo.com), Area covered: in Connecticut (65% of area)- Greenwich and Stamford, and western Darien and New Canaan, and in New York (35% of area)- Armonk, Bedford (in part), Port Chester, Rye, and White Plains (in part).
Hartford Summer Bird Count June 12 & 13, Compiler: Jay Kaplan, (71 Gracey Road, Canton, CT. 06019; jaybrd49@aol.com), Area covered: Bloomfield, East Hartford, Farmington (in part), Hartford, Manchester (in part), Newington (in part), Rocky Hill (in part), South Windsor, Wethersfield, and Windsor.
Litchfield Hills Summer Bird Count June 12 & 13, Compiler: Robert J. Barbieri ( 124 Hoffman St. 1 st floor., Torrington, CT. 06790), Area covered (in whole or in part): Cornwall, Goshen, Kent, Litchfield, Morris, Sharon, Torrington, Warren, and Washington.
New Haven Summer Bird Count June 12 & 13, Compiler: Steve Mayo (27 Tuttle Court, Bethany, CT 06524; rsdmayo@sbcglobal.net ), Area covered: (15-Mile diameter circle) Branford (western), East Haven, Milford, New Haven, North Haven, Orange, West Haven, and Woodbridge (in part).
New Milford/Pawling Summer Bird Count June 19 & 20, Compiler: Angela Dimmitt (PO Box 146, Sherman, Ct. 06784; angladimmitt@aol.com), Area covered ( Connecticut, 1/3 of area): Sherman, New Fairfield, New Milford (west of route 7), and portions of Brookfield & Danbury; and ( New York, 2/3 of area) Patterson, Pawling, Putnam Lake, Carmel, southern Wingdale, and Poughquag.
Storrs Summer Bird Count June 19 & 20, Compiler:Steve Morytko288 Varga Road, Ashford, Ct., 06278; (smorytko@yahoo.com), Area covered: Andover, Ashford, Chaplin, Coventry, Mansfield, Tolland, Willimantic, West Willington, Willington, and Windham.
Woodbury-Roxbury Summer Bird Count June 6, Compiler: Russ Naylor (44 Church Street, Woodbury, CT 06798), Area covered: Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Middlebury, New Milford, Newtown, Roxbury, Southbury, Washington.