Stuart wrote:

>The corrected details are:
>
>0838-43260 1+ years old, 1 mile E. of Burbank, WA, 6/26/92
> Seen, Montlake Fill, 2/20/95.
>0838-43275 1+ years old, near Gibraltar, Michigan, 6/26/92
> Seen, Montlake Fill, 2/20/95.
>
>A bit less spectacular - ie more realistic. Turns out that long east<->west
>movements are not unknown, but usually there is a good north<->south component
>
>as well.

Oh oh, Stuart, I'm still perplexed. It stretches my imagination (not that
I don't like it stretched) that two birds having band numbers 15 digits
apart were banded on the same date at Burbank, WA, and Gibraltar, MI.
Coincidence? Problem of band reading? Too much loosestrife pulling?

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