PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS 
1 • This young wagtail photographed 7 September 2008 at Plum Beach, Brooklyn, New York is dearly a mem- 
ber of the Yellow Wagtail complex, which has recently been split into Yellow Wagtail and Eastern Yellow Wag- 
tail. Expert opinion on this bird leans toward an identification as Eastern Yellow Wagtail, but it is not certain 
that immature birds of the two closely related species can be distinguished in the field. In the East, there is 
one other sight record of the complex from New York and one from Alabama. Photograph by Doug Oochfeld. 
2 • This flighty Yellow Wagtail, presumably an Eastern Yellow Wagtail, was photographed on the first day of 
its 1-2 September 2008 stay in Goleta, Santa Barbara County. Photograph by Brad K. Schram. 
3 > Furnishing only the second inland booby record for eastern North America, and just the seventh record of 
the species for Virginia, this adult Brown Booby visited Claytor Lake, Pulaski County 4-28 (here 20) October 
2008. Was this bird initially driven inland by one of strong September hurricanes that made landfall in the 
Gulf states? This explanation would seem plausible — but there is no record of a booby being driven inland 
by a hurricane in the East, and indeed, there are very few records of pelicaniforms other than frigatebirds 
being driven far from the coast by any tropical storms. Perhaps future storms will provide retrospective con- 
text for this record. Photograph by Stan Bentley. 
4 • Furnishing only the second record of the species for Florida, this White Wagtail in Monroe County 28 Octo- 
ber 2008 confirmed the state's first record of the Asian/American subspecies ocularis. Photograph by Kerry Ross. 
5 • One of two immature Red-throated Loons observed at Quail Creek State Park, Washington County, Utah 
in November 2008, this loon was photographed on 1 1 November and remained through the 1 5th, providing 
many observers the opportunity to add this rare species to their Utah lists. Photograph by Rick Fridell. 
6 ■ Found moribund 23 August 2008 at Sebastian Inlet State Park, Indian River, this immature White-tailed 
Tropicbird was one of three that were found along Florida's Atlantic coast in autumn 2008. 
Photograph by Michael Brothers. 
7 • Martin Meyers and Greg Scyphers discovered Nevada's first Baird's Sparrow on 6 September 2008 at High- 
land Park in Tonopah, Nye County. Although the species is likely a rare transient through the Great Basin re- 
gion, this the first well-documented record of this elusive sparrow for either Nevada or Utah. 
Photograph by Martin Meyers. 
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