Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:41:23 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Brian Monk Subject: Passerine ID -Vireo?? Comments: To: BIRDWG01@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Perhaps someone could help me with this ID. Sunday, Sept 24, in Worceste r Co. Maryland, I pulled in an odd passerine using a screech owl tape. I g ot very good looks of this bird from 30-40 feet, but no pictures (no camera! ). When the bird first flew in, I was reminded almost immediately of a vireo from its jizz. It sat, silent, and looked at me, hopped to another branc h, and continued to peer at me. No call notes, no manic flitting as I would expect from a warbler. The bird had yellow lores extending back to an eye ring of the same color. Both the lores and the eye ring were obvious, but not bold. The bill was distinctly vireo like, though sometimes it appeared to be thinner, much m ore "Vermivora" warbler shaped. The flanks and undertail coverts were yellow. This is the confounding part, howerver: The throat and belly were white. Any ideas? I am not discounting the idea that my observations may have been inaccura te, however, as I said before, I got very good looks at this bird from 30-40 feet for a good 2-3 minutes. So far, Yellow-Throated vireo and Pine warbler (imm. 1st fall male) are t he only contenders. Commentary? Brian Brian C. Monk, DVM 2214 Old Emmorton Rd Bel Air MD 410 569 7777 monkdvm@hotmail.com "Good ... Bad ... I'm the guy with the gun." _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================