Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:51:14 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: Blue-Winged Warblers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/14/2003 1:29:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, DACHSFOX@AOL.COM writes: > I saw several blue-winged warblers on Sunday evening, April 13th, at > about > 5:00pm in the afternoon. They were feeding at the bird feeder in back of > the > Croydon Creek Nature Center in Rockville, Maryland. > Steve, This sounds more like Pine Warbler behavior. Are you sure they were Blue-winged Warblers? I've never heard of Blue-wingeds coming to feeders, but it is fairly common for Pine Warblers. Also, the earliest date recorded in the Yellow Book for Blue-winged is April 13, while Pine's have been present for some time now. Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================