Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:20:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: white-winged scoter id In-Reply-To: <20040324125028.91029.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sue, I didn't see the belly as when it was preening it had its back to me. I have very little experience with W-w Scoter ID, so I was just basing my observations on the illustrations in Sibley and N. Geo. Looks like we need another opinion. Arlene Ripley Calvert County, MD piwa@earthlink.net http://nestbox.com At 04:50 AM 3/24/2004, Sue Hamilton wrote: >=The reason I decided on immature wwscoter was that it >has a pale belly. I agree that the face patch was >practically a figment of my imagination. Can anyone >comment on this bird? > >(One reason for our interest in the bird is that it is >the first wwscoter for our Calvert year lists) > >sue ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================