--- "Robert Z. Norman" wrote:
In the birding I've done locally in the past 40 years I have never seen nor
heard one, and I have seen  very few reports of people near here seeing or
hearing one. Did it used to be more common?
--- end of quote ---

Bob,

It was less common.  Until about twenty yers ago we were well above its northern
limit.  I used to see them in North Carolina with regularity.

In 1975 I was very excited to see one in Saxtons River, VT (fifty miles south of
here) and then to begin to read of other sightings getting closer.

Mike

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