Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:37:13 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Patty Craig Subject: Re: Age of Cave Swallows MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Gwen, Thanks for the information. My information came from Peter Pyle's "Identification Guide to North American Birds". Speaking of the hatchyear bird, he says, "flight feathers not in molt in Jul-Aug but molting in Sept-Mar". I took this to mean it was spread out during most of this period. I suppose both statements could be true, yours more precise than mine. Of after hatchyear birds, "flight feathers in molt Jul-Sep but not in Oct-Mar". 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================