On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Jack Bowling wrote:
> I believe there are two records for New York state. With the now two records
> from B.C., this would make the Tofino bird the 4th record away from Alaska.

This is true, I remember seeing it in the NY Times when it showed up
(1990 perhaps). The earlier record was very old, if I recall
correctly (70-100 years, something like that). Congrats to the few BC
birders who got to see this one.

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Michael R. Smith
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
whimbrel at u.washington.edu
http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html