A lady from Kingston, Ulster County called in to my radio show this afternoon saying that she thought she was seeing a female Painted Bunting in her yard (actually landing and pecking at the windshield of her car).
She later sent me photos - which as it turns out were of an Orange-crowned Warbler. The lady, Rebecca Schweitzer, has since entered the sighting in eBird - with all the photos attached. Orange-crowned Warbler is a good find for Ulster County anytime of year - but even more so in December. There are a few records of OCWA in the Kingston area over the last decade or so. I recall another Ulster County winter record of one coming to a backyard feeder near Rosendale many years ago. Rich Guthrie -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
