However Connecticut Warblers can occur around now -- so everyone be alert!
-- one year Cape May banded a number of them the last weekend in August.
Also about 10-12 years ago at Rock Creek we had (I think it was right about
now) only 5 warblers one morning -- in toto! However, one was a Golden-wing
and one was a Connecticut!

So the lesson is -- always expect the unexpected!

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD


on 09/02/2010 7:12 AM, Robert Ostrowski at  wrote:

> I'm very uncomfortable with how early it is in September for
> Connecticut Warbler. I've known for awhile that some leave their
> breeding grounds in mid-to-late August, but those typically migrate
> south more in the central US. August records on the east coast, from
> what I can tell, are very sparse. Yes, my bird was on Sept 1, but it's
> close enough.
> 
> I think this temporal anomaly is enough for me to ramp up the scrutiny
> and when I awoke this morning I tried to take a hard objective look at
> my notes and I don't like them. I don't think I would believe the
> sighting if somebody else posted them. Not getting a good look at the
> underparts and the much higher probability of other superficially
> similar birds like Canada Warbler or Nashville Warbler being around,
> combined with the very short time I observed the bird, makes me very
> wary. I should've been more detailed and cautious with this bird. So,
> for ther record, I'm not counting it. I do think it's worth trying for
> though and hopefully I can get back out there today or tomorrow.
> 
> Robert Ostrowski
> Crofton, MD
>