Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!unify!grp From: grp@magpie.unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: And a couple local sightings Message-ID: Date: 23 May 90 16:23:31 GMT References: <90142.141055JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> Sender: news@unify.uucp (news admin) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, California Lines: 40 In-Reply-To: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET's message of 22 May 90 19:10:55 GMT >In article <90142.141055JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET writes: > > > Last Saturday Alice (spousal unit) and I saw two interesting birds. > First off was an apparently breeding pair of summer tanagers; I > would not have thought they'd go for it this far north, but perhaps > we're pretty much on the edge of their range (southern Ohio). The This is true, southern Ohio is at the northern end of their range. > second was a clean, close, sighting of a Connecticut warbler, a > lifer for both of us, singing from the edge of a thicket. I under- > stand they're fairly scarce. Anybody want to comment on the rarity > or not of this (these) sighting(s)? > The Connecticut Warbler simply does not exist. There is no such bird. Oh sure, lot's of people _claim_ to have seen one, but they all lie. :-) In reality, this is probably one of the most sought after warblers. It is, as you say, pretty scarce. They nest in Canada, northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, so I suspect that your bird was a migrant. Contratulations though; that's a hard bird to find. > Seems like the early migrants have long gone, but I still haven't > seen some of the later ones, like blackpolls. Any other watchers > out there want to confirm or deny this pattern? That is, that the > migration seems this year to have come in two hunks, the first > already gone by and the second just now getting going? Just curious. > ------- > Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056 > voice: 513-529-1679 fax: 513-529-6900 > -Greg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Pasquariello (916) 920-9092 grp@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac, pyramid}!unify!grp