Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:23:48 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Dunne Subject: Sycamore Landing, Hughes Hollow, Black Hills MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With everyone sleeping late after the Christmas celebrations, I managed = to get up early and sneak away. Sycamore Landing was very lively, yet = very cold at a brisk 27 degrees! There were lots of Bluebirds, T. = Titmouse, and the usual winter gang. I enjoyed a close view of 2 Brown = Creepers, alongside a WB Nuthatch.=20 >From there, went by H. Hollow, where I had a long view at a Red Headed >= woodpecker. Also saw a bird that I need help with, especially from Paul = Woodward, who seems to live at Hughes Hollow. It was a brown, = sparrow-like bird with black eye-stripes, and pronounced yellow on the = chest just under the top of the wings. The entire chest was not yellow, = only the areas near where the wing folds against the chest. The bird did = not stay still long and I soon lost it. Any ideas? Over at Black Hills, the usual water fowl was present (Buffleheads, = Canvasbacks, Ruddys, Coots). In amongst a group of Canada Geese was a = hybrid of some kind. It had a mostly white neck and head (some black = mottling), black upper-mandible, pinkish lower-mandible, orange/pink = legs, with the body marked just like the Canada. However, the area of = the chest in the front of the wing was solidly white. My guess is a = Snow+Canada cross. Is this usual? take care, tom. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================