go figure!

["Carleton Wood" <egardens@inteliport.com>]

	Occasionally, in this great game of birding, we are thrown a curve.
Something happens that totally doesn't make sense.
	Yesterday (12 Dec) while working (back at the greenhouse in the Elizabethan
Gardens), I heard what sounded like a Black-and-White Warbler's chip note. I
got my binoculars and peered up into the oak from which the bird was
calling. There were a total of three birds in the tree. One was indeed the
black-and-white. One was a Northern Parula! And the last was a Red-eyed
Vireo!!! Amazing! Any one of these would have made my day (especially the
vireo!) but to have all three at once is incredible! These birds have been
(should have been) gone for 2 months! While the black-and-white is a regular
lingerer and the parula a less regular, but possible lingerer, the vireo was
definitely out of place.
	They stuck around for about an hour; now if they will only show up for
saturday's CBC!
		Cheers!
	Jeff Lewis
	Manteo, NC
	egardens@inteliport.com