FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Early Gnatcatcher

[Allen Hart <hartal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you take a look at the breeding bird survey map (BBS Map) on the USGS 
web site for Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher

   http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i7510id.html

It shows them breeding pretty much all across Virginia.

--allen

Birdconsv@xxxxxxx wrote:

> This morning while taking a walk in my neighborhood in south Arlington 
> (Fairlington Village), I was surprised to see a Blue-Gray 
> Gnatcatcher.  This species does not breed in my neighborhood, so this 
> bird must either be a very early migrant or, more likely, a 
> post-breeding dispersant (if this is even a word!).  Either seems 
> unusually early to me. Are others starting to see such out-of-place 
> species?
>  
> Dave Davis
> Arlington