Trip Report – Sleeping Giant, Hamden

Fourteen members met on Sunday May 13 at the Sleeping Gian entrance on Tuttle Ave and the Mill River. We carpooled down to the next trail head on Tuttle. The walk was lead by Jim Sirch, DeWitt Allen and Craig Repasz. We traveled along a brook and then entered a field. The warblers were challenging as they stayed aloft in the tops of the trees. We then hiked a bit in the deep hardwoods. Once back to the trail head we walked to a farm with a natural pool that posed an identification challenge with Greater Yellowlegs and Solitary Sandpiper.

48 Species were seen or heard: Canada Goose, Wild Turkey, Great Blue Heron, Solitary Sandpiper,

Greater Yellowlegs, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker,

Empidonax sp., Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Fish Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, Gray Catbird, European Starling, Ovenbird, Louisiana Waterthrush , Blue-winged Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Canada Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Scarlet Tanager, Northern Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Goldfinch , and House Sparrow.