--- On Mon, 3/26/12, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> Andy Sewell tells me our discovery
> yesterday of a hooded warbler at
> Scioto Trails SP has been deemed by eBird Ohio's earliest
> record. And so
> it would be if you consulted only Peterjohn's "The Birds of
> Ohio."
> However, there is a specimen at the Ohio State Museum,
> #7947, collected
> "greatly emaciated" in Ottawa County by M. B. Trautman on
> 3/28/1950, and
> two seen on 4/2 of that same year in Columbus (AFN
> 4(4):245).

What am I missing? A sighting on March 25, 2012 is earlier than the three "non-Peterjohn" examples cited.

Since the topic of early dates for warblers has been broached, may I ask if anyone has any further information about the flock of Black-throated Blue Warblers reported from Blendon Woods last week? Photographs are said to exist, but I haven't seen them posted anywhere. Is more information forthcoming?

Happy birding,
Paul

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