November 2nd becomes the latest Vermont record for Yellow Warbler, 
according to eBird. Good find!

Prior to Peter's sighting, my son Spencer had the latest eBird record of 
October 19th (last year, also at Brilyea). This was 11 days later than 
Lane Vargas' 2006 sighting at Dead Creek on Oct. 8th.

The eBird database indicates that a Bennington County sighting on Sep. 
16, 1988 was the latest until the 2006 record.

Interesting to ponder the confounding effects of more eBird users and 
changing climate...

Doug Hardy, Norwich


Peter Manship wrote:
> Today I checked out my winter route looking for hawks and had first Rough-
> legged Hawk of the season across the road from McQuen Slang in Bridport.
> Large flock of Black Birds heading south, 400 to 500 of them on a back road 
> in  Orwell. The sound was wonderful, wished I had a tape recorderor movie 
> camera. Then 157 American Crows flew down the same valley, quite a sight. 
> Also of interest was a beautiful female Yellow Warbler at Brilyea Access. 
> Anyone know what the late date for this warbler is?
>
> Hawks seen today:
>
> Red-tailed Hawk 9
> Rough-legged Hawk  3
> Kestrel  1
> Northern Harrier  5 
> Buteo UFO  2
>
> Good Birding
> Peter Manship
> Ludlow Vt