Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:18:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: leucistic Cardinal Comments: To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Last week I spied an odd N. Cardinal at the feeder at work (Jeff. = Patterson Park, Calvert County). I didn't get a good look at it before it = flushed. I haven't seen it since until today. It's a female with weird = white feathering on the face and nape. The neatest part is the pink = feathers on the wing coverts. Gives it the appearance of pink epaulets. = There is one pink primary feather on the left wing (P5 or 6 maybe). With = the snow cover here, there have been quite a few Cardinals at the feeder = so perhaps there needs to be a high concentration of them to bring this = one to the feeder. On a different topic, the Patuxent River had been frozen over down to the = Pax River NAS until yesterday afternoon. This morning, while I was driving = across the Solomons bridge, there was open water from Pax NAS up to Pt. = Patience, just north of the bridge. There was some open water north of the = point but not much. The river is frozen solid up here at JPPM. Hopefully, = the warmer temps over the weekend will break open the water and keep it = that way until the Pax River waterfowl survey on 2/8. There won't be many = waterfowl on the ice! Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, Maryland Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues =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 =========================================================================