on 10/4/04 9:17 AM, John Churchill at  wrote:

> Often Blackpolls have limited yellow on the legs.  It can be confined
> to the bottoms of the feet.  A bander at the Allegany Front Observatory
> at Dolly Sods, WV once told me that she remembers them by the phrase
> ..."Yellow sole - Black Poll".  Sorry I don't know the Birding reference
> off-hand.

August 1996.

Elliot Kirschbaum
Baltimore, MD USA