Ellen,
Don't be discouraged by the people who questioned your sightings,
they do mean well . Consider them as attempting to increase all of our
knowledge of birds distribution and timing. Please keep posting, I tell
everyone that I would rather hear about a bird that was misidentified
than not hear about one that was correctly identified. And who would have
believed a report of a Yellow-throated Warbler in Washington, much less
in the middle of winter?

Wilson Cady
gorgebirds at juno.com