There is now a Purple Gallinule near Tawas Point in Michigan as well.
This has definitely been an amazing spring for Gallinules.

James Fox
Farmington Hills, MI
On May 17, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Bill Whan wrote:

>       I don't have news updating the status of the six purple
> gallinules know
> to have been in Ohio beginning on 2 May 2010, except that the first
> known arrival continues in Lorain County, where I saw it yesterday,
> hale
> and hearty apparently.
>       Brainard Palmer-Ball of Kentucky has contributed important
> information
> to the picture, including the news that not one but three of these
> birds
> appeared in Kentucky, and two in Tennessee, on a very similar schedule
> this spring. He was kind enough to send this page
> http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=flood_050210_how_it_happened
> from the NWS station in Louisville.
>       Some extraordinary weather conditions on 1 and 2 May caused a
> lot of
> destruction in the area, with winds as strong as 70 mph and at times
> 1-2
> inches of rain per hour. This violent storm out of the southwest was
> hemmed in somewhat by a strong high to the east, creating a turbulent
> corridor of very strong northbound winds.
>       It seems this condition accompanied a migratory movement of this
> southern bird species, and these fairly weak fliers were literally
> sucked up far north of their normal destinations. A northward movement
> over what is usually a broad front and for a relatively short distance
> was transformed into a narrow corridor that landed a lot of them way
> up
> here.
>       This seems perfectly plausible to me, and after everything is
> sorted
> out it might be revealed that other species may have suffered the same
> fate. It shows how we might learn to look for certain storm-waifs from
> the south in rare spring conditions like these, just as we have
> learned
> to anticipate wind-blown wanderers in the wake of hurricanes in the
> Gulf
> of Mexico in the fall.
> Bill Whan
> Columbus
>
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