Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:34:42 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: harvey Subject: Yellow variant of the House Finch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I sat and watched a flight of five (5) birds at Kinder Farm Park in Anne = Arundel Co. for 15 minutes today. The flight consisted of 4 female = house finches and 1 other. It looked like an immature male House Finch, = but, the colors were wrong. When, later, I had a chance to look it up = in Sibley's, it turned out to be this color variant, although the = picture in Sibley's did not do it justice. Harvey Welsh Severn, Md. yzkrem@comcast.net =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 =========================================================================