PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS 
1 • This long-staying Calliope Hummingbird attended a feeder at Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut 
from mid-October 2008 through the end of autumn (here 21 November). Two others were found in New Eng- 
land in fall 2008. Photograph by Mark Szantyr. 
1 • South Dakota's first Anna's Hummingbird was present at a Rapid City feeder 23-29 (here 24) October 
2008. Photograph by Bob Druckrey. 
3 “ This juvenile Gray-tailed Tattler, a one-day wonder 25 August 2008 at Southeast Farallon Island, San 
Francisco County, was only the second ever confirmed in California. Photograph by Matthew Brady. 
4 • Representing a subspecies previously unverified in New Mexico, this bright eastern Bell's Vireo (K b. bellii) 
was at the Melrose Trap in northern Roosevelt County 3-6 (here 4) October 2088. Two other subspecies nest 
commonly across southern New Mexico, K b. arizonae in the southwest and ¥. b. medimfmm the Rio Grande 
Valley eastward. Photograph by Jerry R. OUemttel. 
5 • Providing a fifth record for the Northern California region, this iight-morph Wedge-tailed Shearwater 20 
kilometers south-southwest of Ano Nuevo Point 23 August 2008 was observed in both San Mateo County 
and Santa Cruz County waters. Photograph byJeffPokkn. 
6 • Oregon's first Wood Sandpiper drew observers from near and far to Fern Ridge Reservoir, Lane County 26 
(here 29) September through 5 October 2008. This juvenile is just the sixth of its species documented in the 
Lower 48 states. Photograph by John Sullivan. 
7 • One of two found in the Northern California region this fall, this Dusky Warbler was discovered at Richmond, 
Contra Costa County 9 October 2009 by Emilie Strauss. Assuming acceptance by the California Bird Records 
Committee, it will represent the eighth regional record of this Asian vagrant. Photograph by Bob Lewis. 
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