NEW ENGLAND 
May (T. Young) and Concord, MA 25 May (W. 
Hutcheson), respectively, represented high 
spring tallies. An early Whip-poor-will in 
Lyme, CT 10 Apr (D. Provencher) may have 
arrived with the aforementioned coastal fall- 
out of Neotropical migrants. Though it repre- 
sents the 2nd highest total on record for the 
Region, the 51 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds 
tallied as they migrated past a point on Plum 
1. 10 May (RH) may be found to represent a 
fairly typical mid-May count for that locality; 
71 were counted at Plum I. 11 May 2004. A 
Black-backed Woodpecker appeared 25 
Apr-17 May on Nantucket, far s. of its n. New 
England haunts (L. Snell et al, ph.). Having 
survived record-low, local temperatures of 
-50° F a few weeks earlier, a very hardy North- 
ern Flicker in Caribou, Aroostook, ME made it 
at least through 13 Mar (fide BS). 
Tying the earliest state record, an Acadian 
Flycatcher in Little Compton, RI 30 Apr prob- 
ably arrived with the aforementioned influx at 
the end of Apr, and a very early Eastern King- 
bird at Tuckernuck I., Nantucket, MA 8 Apr 
was part of the fallout of Neotropicals at the 
beginning of the month. A Scissor-tailed Fly- 
catcher in Arlington, VT 9-10 May (B. Powers 
et al, ph.) was thought to be different than 
another found roughly 50 km away in West 
Rutland, VT 12-13 May 0- & K. Houghton et 
al, ph.). Even rarer than the Scissor-taileds 
was a Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Nantucket 7 
May (D. Lang). In addition to early Red-eyed 
Vireos associated with the late Apr influx, a 
Red-eyed in S. Kingston, RI 14 Apr was, inex- 
plicably, a full two weeks early (fide RF). A 
Fish Crow in Augusta, ME 6 Apr (NF) was n. 
of the species’ known nesting range in the 
state, and Common Ravens reached a new 
southernmost nesting outpost on Long Island 
Sound in Waterford, CT (DP). A Cliff Swal- 
low in S. Kingston, RI 12 Apr (C. Pedro) was 
the earliest on record for the Ocean State. In 
Massachusetts, House Wren was another con- 
spicuous component of the late Apr influx, as 
was Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Table 2). Two 
WARBLERS 
THROUGH FINCHES 
A Hudsonian Godwit in Lamoine, Maine 30 May 2009 took 
honors as the rarest shorebird of the season in New Eng- 
land. Photograph by Jerry Smith. 
This Mew Gull of the nominate subspecies was in West 
Haven, Connecticut 20 May 2009, furnishing one of few 
state records. Photograph by Mark Szantyr. 
were probably both holdovers that had been 
seen sporadically through the previous winter, 
while one at Nantucket, MA 29-30 May (EFA) 
was new. The Northern Hawk Owl that was 
present in Center Harbor, NH since mid-Jan 
was last reported 1 Mar (fide PH), and anoth- 
er wintering hawk owl in Bristol, ME was last 
reported 15 Mar. Two Great Gray Owls in- 
cluded one in Lubec/Trescott, ME 16-21 Mar 
(D. Scull, ph. C. Bartlett et al.) and one much 
farther south in Durham, NH 4-9 Apr (T. 
Bronson et al, ph.). Counts of 75 and 85 
Common Nighthawks in Merrimack, NH 20 
Two Great Gray Owls in New England in late winter 2009 in- 
cluded one in Trescott, Maine 16-21 (here 19) March (top) 
and one in Durham, New Hampshire 4-9 (here 4) April. Pho- 
tographs by Jeremiah Trimble (lop) and Chris Bartlett. 
male Varied Thrushes at the same feeder in 
Saco, ME continued from the winter season at 
least until 3 Mar; one was still there 15 Mar; 
and another wintering male continued at a 
feeder in Portland, ME at least through 2 Mar 
(M.A.R.B.A.). Another Varied Thrush visited 
a feeder in Bristol, CT on an unspecified date 
in the first week of Mar (L. 
Michaud), and yet another ap- 
peared in Palmer, MA 24 Apr (ph. 
J. Atherton). Following another 
big flight year, a flock of 1000 Bo- 
hemian Waxwings in Burlington, 
VT 5 Apr (L. Clarfeld) represented 
the largest aggregation reported 
this spring. 
Among a total of three Thayer's Gulls in New England in spring 2009, these first-cycle birds were nicely documented in Gloucester, Massachu- 
setts 8 March (left) and Plum Island, Massachusetts 14-19 (here 14) March. Photographs by Jeremiah Trimble. 
By the end of Apr, no fewer than 
29 species of warblers had already 
been reported in the Region, 27 in 
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