Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:21:14 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Brian Monk Subject: Re: Passerine ID -Vireo?? Not white-eye Vireo Comments: To: lance.laviolette@lmco.com, BIRDWG01@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >Not that I see these in my area but why have you ruled >out White-eyed Vireo? It seems to fit the 'bill' so to speak. Lance, I forgot to mention the dark eyes on this bird. The nape, according to m y field note, was also green/olive, rather than grey-green/grey. I think t his rules out WEVI, but my knowledge is incomplete. Do young WEVI's have dar k eyes? Brian > > Perhaps someone could help me with this ID. Sunday, Sept 24, in >Worcester > > Co. Maryland, I pulled in an odd passerine using a screech owl tape. I > > got > > 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 > > branch, > > 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, mu ch > > more > > "Vermivora" warbler shaped. The flanks and undertail coverts were >yellow. > > This is the confounding part, howerver: The throat and belly were whi te. > > Any ideas? > > > > I am not discounting the idea that my observations may have been > > inaccurate, > > 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) a re > > the > > 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. _________________________________________________________________________ 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 ======================================================================== ==========================================================================