It has definitely been a strange year of late migrants. It seems the hot
weather in early fall really kept a lot of birds north of their usual
fall/winter haunts. I just thought I would chime in with some historical
personal data. I would have to look through CBC records to get an exact date,
but I had a bird on the Waterloo, AL CBC sometime in the 90's that was reported
as flycatcher sp. When I saw it, my impression was a pewee, but my view was
brief so I could not safely eliminate Empidonax sp. in my mind. We could not
relocate the bird on later trips. Waterloo is about 10 miles (as the flycatcher
flies) from the TN state line.
Damien Simbeck
Killen AL
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