As a reminder of the rarity potential in late fall's transition to early winter for our region, a Phainopepla that continued to be seen in the Toronto Ontario (Canada) area survived but unfortunately, a Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher ( another mega- rare bird so far from its home range in Mexico & s. Arizona ) was found and now remaining in Toronto as a specimen in the Royal Ontario Museum. At least it will be preserved for future study - right in the region that it flew so far to get to... http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/ONTB.html#1257966875
For those who don't check the Genesee Birds list-serve all that regularly, a tally of Cave Swallows (seen moving west for the most part along N.Y.'s Lake Ontario shores) was 73, on Nov. 9th - that's a lot!!! So far, no incursion came close on the Atlantic shore of either NY, New England, Canada, & elsewhere east, as reported from many bird lists (2009). http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/GENE.html#1257820936 Tom Fiore, Manhattan _________ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
