PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS 
1 • In early (here 6) June 2009, the extremely late ice-out induced up to a few dozen Red Phalaropes to 
linger at Churchill, Manitoba, as they awaited favorable conditions for northward movement. Photograph by 
Tom Johnson. 
2 & 3 • This swallow was present with many Bam Swallows in northeastern Jefferson County, Kentucky 29 
June-3 July (here 3 July) 2009. The most likely identity seemed to be a Tree Swallow x Barn Swallow hybrid. 
Photographs by Eddie Huber. 
4 • This exhausted Sprague's Pipit became a most unexpected stowaway when it landed on a tall sailing ship 
about 64 kilometers off the North Carolina coast on 2 June 2009. In the literature, there is essentially no con- 
text for a bird of this species in the East in the summer season, much less offshore, although other rare west- 
ern and mid-continental birds have certainly made appearances in the East in early June, typically farther 
north. Photograph by Captain Lauren Morgens. 
5 • Manitoba's second (but its first "twitchable") Painted Bunting proved to be very cooperative. Initially dis- 
covered in late May 2009, it was identified 2 June (here 6 June), after which numerous observers managed 
to see it until it was last noted 6 June. Photograph by Doug Dance. 
6 ' A pair of Northern Parulas constructed this nest and raised three young in a wooded residential complex 
in urban Los Angeles in summer 2009; this image of the male at the nest was taken 30 July. Photograph by 
Don Sterba. 
7 • Dispersal of Roseate Spoonbills was extensive in the Southeast (and beyond) in summer 2009. This juve- 
nile was spotted with at least two others in Sumter County, Georgia on 12 July. Photograph by Phil Hardy. 
8 • An odd visitor to the Upper Texas Coast in summer 2009 was this first-cycle Glaucous Gull at Galveston's 
East Beach, Galveston County 5 (here) through 26 June. Photograph by Joseph Kennedy. 
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