Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:26:34 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Wintering Eastern Kingbird? In-Reply-To: <001601c2b216$ea8e1580$77423ad0@cable.rcn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Jason: The Yellow Book shows a few records in late December for Eastern Kingbird, but none in January or February. This is not a Records Committee "reviewable" species, but the North American Birds regional editor (Marshall Iliff) and Maryland Birdlife "Changing Seasons" editor will be interested. Hope this helps. Phil PS. If you don't have a copy of the "yellow book" (Field List of the Birds of Maryland), it's a "must have" for field birders. I think you can find them on the MOS web site. At 23:25 01/01/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Driving north on I-95 yesterday, I saw what looked like an Eastern >Kingbird. It fluttered out over the highway from some trees on the edge >of a rest area, I believe somewhere in the 90-95 mile area (definitely >south of the exit at mile 100, where I got off). It was a very brief view >at 65 mph or so, but I had a good look at a dark tail with a clear white >terminal band. Overall coloring was dark above/light below with a flight >pattern that fit with kingbird. How unusual is it to see kingbirds in winter? =================================================== Phil Davis, Secretary MD/DC Records Committee 2549 Vale Court Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA 301-261-0184 mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html =================================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================