Greetings All, Saturday was heckuva great birding day as we arrived into Mobile County,Alabama . Gliding way overhead the Mobile Tensaw Delta NWR , we saw a Swallow-tailed Kite gliding over the huge bridge that spans the wetland area. . Little did we know that about an hour or so later on Dauphin Island we would receive tips from many birders there that a vagrant, male adult Painted Redstart would be in our midst. Following the provided directions we located it and enjoyed observing it as it flitted and displayed around the oaks-sometimes directly overhead at the Audubon Center on that island. We will return back to Ohio by next weekend and hopefully have some photos to share. Supposedly there are only a very few records of this warbler being seen in Alabama. Gary Moon Columbus,Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]