Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:40:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Pierce Subject: Re: more feeder birds In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've had a completely tailess Junco around for the last few days. Looks sort of cartoonish, but the bird didn't seem to mind. Now that the sun is out the Titmice are singing their tufts off. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Pierce (DNRC)- fpierce@avialantic.com Mid-Atlantic Aviation on the Web - http://www.avialantic.com ** Mid Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend Airshow June 6-8 2003 - www.maam.org/maamwwii.html ** *** World Airshow News - www.worldairshownews.com ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On > Behalf Of Tyler Bell > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:29 PM > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] more feeder birds > > > We didn't have anything outstanding at our feeders during the > snowstorm. But, we did have a couple of oddities. We must have > had between 200 and 300 Common Grackles between our yard and our > neighbor's. There was one grackle that had two totally white tail > feathers. The outer rectrix is white, the next one is black and > the next one is white. It's very striking when it flies. > > Then, there was a Junco that had a tail that made it look like a > Winter Wren. It was a very peculiar thing. I don't know if the > tail was stunted or if the feather got caught by a predator and > started to grow back (which would seem contrary to molt > progression). Anyway, very interesting birds! > > And, this morning, after shoveling out the driveway from where > the snow plow had buried, we went around filling feeders before > heading off to work. There was a Pine Warbler dining at the suet. > It stayed there the whole time despite our being only about 6 to > 10 feet away from it. Desperate times call for bolder birds. > > Tyler Bell > bell@acnatsci.org > California, Maryland > > Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! > Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================