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HI all,

    This has been one of the best spring migrations in memory (best for birders, at least), with five significant fallouts, every one falling on a weekend, to the delight of the working folks of extreme NW FL and the Alabama coasts! Now that it's over, it's going to be hard to adjust to ho-hum birding. The highlight of the season was an INCA DOVE which Lucy and I found on 19 April at Ft. Morgan, AL, a first state record only about 35 miles from the state line. This species has been expected, as it has been found as close as Grand Isle, LA. and in MS, so take a second look at those Ground-Doves, sooner or later one will be found in FL, probably (but not necessarily) in the Panhandle. We were forlorn years ago to "lose" the Inca Doves we saw at Frances Hames' home in Key West when the committee de-listed it from Florida's official list. So we're on the lookout!

Bob & Lucy Duncan
Gulf Breeze, Fl. 

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