Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:02:39 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Blue-Winged Warblers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Folks For the record, the Yellowbook list the first date for Blue-winged Warbler at April 13. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Boehm" To: Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Blue-Winged Warblers > Rick, > > Thanks for your response. You could be right , although as far > as I could > determine, those were blue-wingeds. I say that because their breasts were > solid, > bright yellow (without streaking) and they had the black eyelines that > exactly matched the pictures > of blue-wingeds I saw in my field-guide and on the internet. Every other > characteristic > I could see matched what the field identification tips specified. > Incidentally, their wings, when folded together behind their > backs, formed an > intricated cross-hatched pattern of solid blacks and whites. I didn't read > anything about > that in the information I came across, but I did read that blue-wingeds have > two white > wing bars. > I am pretty sure of my identification, but I'll admit to not being > a warbler expert. > Perhaps others will visit the Croydon Nature Center and will or will not be > able to > confirm the sighting. I look forward to such feedback. > > Steve > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================