Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:24:36 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Brian Monk Subject: Re: [BIRDWG01] Passerine ID -Vireo?? Comments: To: jchurchi@wvu.edu, BIRDWG01@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed J.B., Hey! Yes, it was me at the O.C. ponds. Truly, I did not see the signs!! I must have let my enthusiasm overtake my ability to read :). As far as YTVI, I don't know. From the sources that I have consulted so far, YTVI are fledged with yellow throats, hans down always. But you kno w what they say about always. Brian >From: "J. B. Churchill" >To: Brian Monk >Subject: Re: [BIRDWG01] Passerine ID -Vireo?? >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:19:34 -0400 > >Brian, > It sounds to me like a Yellow-throated Vireo. Why not. I was >curious if you were the birder that I ran into on Sunday in the Red SUV >when we were both queried as to our ability to read no trespassing signs at >Golf Course Road ? > The flanks and undertail coverts being yellow does seem a littl e >bit odd, but the yellow spectacles sound right. > J.B. >======================== ===================================== >At 01:41 PM 9/26/2000 -0400, you wrote: >>Perhaps someone could help me with this ID. Sunday, Sept 24, in Worces ter >>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 vir eo >>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 wou ld >>expect from a warbler. >> >>The bird had yellow lores extending back to an eye ring of the same col or. >>Both the lores and the eye ring were obvious, but not bold. The bill w as >>distinctly vireo like, though sometimes it appeared to be thinner, much >>more >>"Vermivora" warbler shaped. The flanks and undertail coverts were yell ow. >>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 >>inaccurate, >>however, as I said before, I got very good looks at this bird from 30-4 0 >>feet for a good 2-3 minutes. >> >>So far, Yellow-Throated vireo and Pine warbler (imm. 1st fall male) are >>the >>only contenders. Commentary? > > >======================== ============================== > >John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 >GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 >West Virginia University ext. 4456 >Natural Resource Analysis Center > > http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc > _________________________________________________________________________ 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 ======================================================================== ==========================================================================