These are the results of this years' May Count. If you were out counting on that day and have not yet notified Steve Rogers (429-1259), please do so as soon as possible - especially if you saw a species that is not included on this list.

Double-crested Cormorant

Great-blue Heron

Canada Goose

Wood Duck

Mallard

Turkey Vulture

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Merlin

Ruffed Grouse

Wild Turkey

Killdeer

Greater Yellowlegs

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

peep

Herring Gull

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Black-billed Cuckoo

Barred Owl

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Eastern Wood-pewee

epidomax flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Great-crested Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

Tree Swallow

Northern Rough-winged

Swallow

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow

Blue Jay

American Crow

Common Raven

Black-capped Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Carolina Wren

House Wren

Winter Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

Veery

Hermit Thrush

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Northern Mockingbird

Cedar Waxwing

European Starling

Blue-headed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue-winged Warbler

Northern Parula

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Prairie Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

American Redstart

Worm-eating Warbler

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Louisiana Waterthrush

Common Yellowthroat

Scarlet Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Eastern Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

Eastern Meadowlark

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Baltimore Oriole

House Finch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

JUNE 1998

NEXT MEETING: Friday June 5. Annual Members Night - for all members: old, new, and future. This is a pot-luck picnic and then anyone who wishes, shares something with the others - either slides, a favorite book, anything at all that you would like to talk about. The picnic begins at 6:30 at the Unitarian Meeting House on Spring Hill Road. This has come to be known as the "Annual Potato Salad Meeting" because one time a few years ago everyone brought a potato salad. If there is a quorum there will be a short business meeting to elect the new slate of officers for the coming year. We need only 15 members for a quorum so please come and vote and enjoy yourselves.

At the April meeting the membership voted to allocate $150.00 to set up and maintain an NOS home page on the internet. The address will be: loon.ucc.uconn.edu/NOS/nos.html. Steve Morytko has been working to get it up and running with a little minor help from Bob Pirrie and I. Eventually it will have meeting information, local bird sightings, archived newsletters, links to other bird sights and much more

The manuscript for the newest edition of "The Birds of Storrs" has been turned over to the book committee and Bruce Carver is currently working to complete it. We are hopeful that it will be ready for publication in the near future and we will keep all of you posted as to the current status.

FIELD TRIPS: The "Louis and Clark Expedition" on May 2 was a huge success. Nineteen people in many cars saw the following species on a day that started rainy and ended as a beautiful May day that made you realize why you do like to do this "birding" in the first place!