Warbler Guy, I think I just saw an Orange-crowned Warbler (OCWA) in my yard here in S. Carolina. Is that possible (on October 15, 2013)? Migrating warblers includes Orange-crowned to the East? Orange-crowned remain in the East during the fall-winter?

Josie, indeed, please see the map, below, given the non-breeding season range in ORANGE COLOR, below) from the Field Guide To The Warblers (Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett, Houghton-Mifflin, 1997), it’s likely your ID was correct. (Please email me and I'll send you a PDF of the OCWA range map that shows its non-breeding season presence in the East/Southeast USA....I will upload this map soon here. My email: danieledelstein at att dot net (You need to type the @ symbol and dot, of course.))

Kudos on you.

Correct me if I’m wrong, readers, but I also have seen OCWA during even later periods (Nov. – Jan.) in the East, including MD and NY.....as it sometimes lingers (and/or overwinters?) into the late fall (and winter?) within the mid-Atlantic and lower N.E. states, based on my experience of living in the East long ago.

(Please feel free to make a “comment,” below, readers, relating to this issue...I’d appreciate feedback.)

(Map, below, via Birds of North American Online, per:

Gilbert, W. M., M. K. Sogge and C. Van Riper III. 2010. Orange-crowned Warbler (Oreothlypiscelata), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/101

doi:10.2173/bna.101)