Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:31:19 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Patty Craig Subject: Age of Cave Swallows MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hans, I have tentatively aged the swallow that I saw as an adult for two reasons. First, I saw no buffy edges on the tertials and, secondly, a juvenile bird should be in flight feather molt at this time of year and the adult should be finished. I saw no molt. Good Birding, Patty Craig Dameron, MD pattycraig@mail.ameritel.net --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses at mail.ameritel.net] ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================