Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:46:30 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marian Dodson Subject: Re: W-King odd pairing? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 05/28/2002 11:00:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pwebb@BCPL.NET writes: > also saw an Eastern Kingbird next to the Western on the fence which > it was NOT chasing away and suspect it was a female, and that in the > absence of any Western females the Western male, more aggressive than > the Eastern male(s), may have attracted this bird for a mate. It will > be interesting to see if in fact this is a cross-pairing and if they > successfully nest. > Since this question has come up, I'd like some help with a bird that a friend of mine and I saw a couple weekends ago at Middle Patuxent. The bird was a classic Eastern Kingbird, in size, shape, color, call, location, white tail banding, EXCEPT it had a warm yellow belly. After much head scratching and field-guide searching, we thought perhaps it had brushed up against some pollen or had been"color-coded" at a banding station somewhere. Can anyone offer any other possibilities? Marian Dodson Glen Burnie, MD MJD405@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================