This pertains to a bird being seen recently in Maryland, as well as comments on a bird not seen since early January (the NY Grace's), &:
An excerpt from Doug Gochfeld's note to me, on my Lucy's Warbler (which is not being seen recently in any eastern state) comments... and the "time-frame" I referred to below, from the original (first) post regarding a Grace's Warbler in Maryland (being seen very recently) - I would add that it's more than luck that the Nassua County Grace's was looked at again (and again and again) as the finders initially had not believed it to be that species, but a warbler species known to breed in the east (per comments quoted from A. Baksh and D. Gochfeld, as well as S. Ausubel). IF one accepts that the Maryland Virginia's Warbler was initially seen Dec. 26, 2011 (see below excerpt), it was in the same time-frame as the finding of the Grace's EWarbler in Nassau Co. - and, to clarify it's simply interesting that 2 warbler species that breed in the southwest U.S. (& adjacent Mexico) were seen in areas not all that far from each other in the east - in terms of the distance they must have traveled in reaching the east and the much smaller distance from Nassua Co., NY to Maryland. The record of Grace's in NY appears to stand alone as the first east of west TX, and those were in areas that have been adjacent to breeding; there are scattered records west (a much shorter distance) for Grace's to the west coast of s. California... The Grace's find gets me to wonder if any "off-season" sightings of Yellow-throated Warbler, a fairly well-known lingering, occasionally- wintering (some have this winter season in the northeast) & of course, often early-spring "overshooting" species, could possibly be of Grace's. It is fortunate that the one and only eastern record in Nassau Co. was so well-observed. Thanks to Doug Gochfeld for the note and the clarification, easily confirmed (in part) with a hard-copy reference I've mentioned a few times, "A Field Guide to Warblers of North America" by Dunn and Garrett, which has a lot of information on all of these warblers. Tom Fiore, Manhattan (An excerpt from Doug Gochfeld's personal note:) >> On Feb 16, 2012, at 9:38 PM, fresha2...@aol.com wrote: There are records of Lucy's from Massachusetts, Michigan, and Alberta. Also east Texas and Louisiana. While it's certainly not likely to stray east it does have more of a known history as a vagrant than Grace's Warbler does. -Doug << - - - - - from the MD.Osprey bird list post re: Virginia's Warbler - (contained within MD 'Birds' link below:) Stasz, with Ed Boyd, had seen this bird on Dec 26, 2011, but could not believe their eyes, so crossed it off as a Palm Warbler. This time they got the photograph. In view of the December sighting, in almost exactly the same bushes where it was seen today, there is reason to believe the bird has been here all that time, and hence it really ought to still be here for at least the next few days. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Fiore <tom...@earthlink.net> To: nysbirds-L <nysbirds-L@cornell.edu> Sent: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 9:16 pm Subject: [nysbirds-l] Virginia's Warbler in Maryland There's been a Virginia's Warbler in Maryland - and what is especially intriguing is that the Virginia's may well have arrived in a like time- frame that the Nassau County (NY) Grace's Warbler did... or at any rate possibly around the same time period - see the MD list for a first report... which mentions when their western warbler was likely first found. So where is Lucy's? (Perhaps the least likely of W. "lady-warblers" to stray east very far). http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1202C&L=MDOSPREY&F=&S=&P=8939 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
