Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:44:56 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Sperka Subject: No Ordinary Pigeon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For the past two days I have had an interesting pigeon/dove visiting my yard. I believe the bird is some type of exotic pigeon/dove. It is quite big when compared to the mourning doves, about the size of a crow. It is all white with red eye rings around the eyes. It has faint brown streaks on its neck, but this could have very well be from the mud. The beak is not straight, but rather lumpy and the legs are pinkish. I believe it is an escapee because there is a black band around its right leg. This bird is on private property in the Catonsville area of Baltimore County. Any one with information about the ID of this bird, or know the owner, please e-mail me at the address below. Becuase this is private property, I am requesting no visitors at this time. Thank-you for understanding. Kevin Sperka Catonsville, MD KSVH3030@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================