On Dickcissel sightings (which are already picking up in more of at least western NY state), this recent message to the PA-Birds list is of likely interest (as well as the linked article mentioned) - as archived here (the sialia.com <http://sialia.com/> archives hold the messages for about a month, not more):
http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=1324987 <http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=1324987> Thanks to Robert S. Mulvihill, ornithologist with the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA, for sharing this link, to the Pennsylvania bird-list. good -and ethical- birding, Tom Fiore manhattan New York -- 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/ --