Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:35:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Oregon Junco, Rusty Blackbird, 2/22/01 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Tyler - Nice sightings! Non-DE Juncos are "reviewable" in MD. If you have notes, we love to get a report from you. Thanks! Phil At 12:25 PM 02/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: >After leaving early from work yesterday, Jane and I watched the tremendous >activity at our feeders. One bird in particular looked odd. The female >junco was a soft brown with a slightly darker, grayish hood and had buff >color under the wings up to the crown. At first we thought it was just a >very brown individual but after consulting Sibley, we determined that due >to the buff coming up to the hood that this was an Oregon Junco. We tried >to get some pix but the birds were being flighty due to all of the >activity and a large grackle flock moving around the area. > >Also, mixed in with the grackles was at least one Rusty Blackbird. I tried >to relocate either bird this morning but there weren't that many birds >coming to the feeders today since the snow event was over. > >Tyler Bell >mailto:bell@acnatsci.org >California, MD >http://list.audubon.org/archives/de-birds.html >http://list.audubon.org/archives/nd-birds.html > >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =================================================== Phil Davis, Secretary MD/DC Records Committee 2549 Vale Court Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA 301-261-0184 mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html =================================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================