Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:32:17 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Louis Nielsen Subject: Re: Some Talbot County Birds in the Snow MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sweetest June, Here is the blackbird: It also occurs to me that juvenile Brewers have dark (brown I think) eyes. In a message dated 1/27/04 3:54:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, lroslund@BLUECRAB.ORG writes: > One Red-winged Blackbird showed up adorned in highly unusual plumage. > At first I thought it might be a sick bird that did not manage to > keep the snow and ice off. Then, when the bird came closer, it turned > out to be wearing a totally mixed coat feathers, about as many were > pure white as were pure black. The tail was totally white, and held > stiffly, as those of the surrounding set of female redwings. The > surrounding males were holding their tails in a rather limp and > lowered fashion. But this bird was > male, as shown by a trace of a red bar on each wing. I had hoped the > bird might have been a Yellow-head, for it had tiny yellow patches > above each eye, as shown in part for female Yellow-heads, but I am > now confident that it is merely a strangely plumaged male Red-wing, > probably a first year bird. > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================