--- 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]