PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS 
1 • Western Tanager, a rare but annual visitor to Manitoba, turned up near Balmoral on 17 May 
2009— -one of three reported in the province during the spring of 2009. Photograph by Garry 
Budyk. 
2 - This impressive full-tailed adult Red-billed Tropicbird made an extremely rare onshore ap- 
pearance at Cape Point, Buxton, North Carolina on 10 March (here) and again on 21 April 2009. 
Photograph by Brian Patteson. 
B • One of the most exciting passerine finds of the spring 2009 season was this black-backed 
Lesser Goldfinch that sporadically visited feeders in Beaufort, North Carolina 2-4 (here 3) 
March. Photograph by Hmy ft Sell. 
4 • A fi5t for Oklahoma was this male Hepatic Tanager at a farmstead outside of Boise City, 
Cimarron County 24 April 2009. Photograph by Dan Robinson. 
5 • California's first Great Crested Flycatcher in spring was this individual on Point Loma, San 
Diego County on 20 May 2009. Note that the tail is almost wholly rufous, with no brown at the 
tips of the rectrices. Photograph by Douglas W. Aguillard. 
6 • This Rock Wren lingered all day 1 1 May 2009 around some barns on a farm in northeastern 
Jefferson County, Kentucky, allowing many birders to enjoy this second state record. 
Photograph by Mark Monroe. 
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