Norm, could you or Bob or Matt comment on how this differs from the more 
likely subspecies here?  The only YTWAs I've seen in MD were in N. 
Pocomoke Swamp, although I heard one at Little Bennett a couple of years 
ago.

	Bob Hartman
	Colesville, MD


Norm Saunders wrote:
> Both Bob Ringler and Matt Hafner agree that the YTWA visiting our suet feeder since January 7 is likely the "albilora" race, possibly a first state record for that subscpecies.
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> Fran has pictures she took in January at:
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> http://home.att.net/~fcsaunders/ytwarb/
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> and I have some of the photos I took a few days ago, selected to address the issue of whether the bird had white feathering on the "chin", or base of the lower mandible.  These are at:
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> http://home.att.net/~fcsaunders/ytwarbII/
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> To pin down the location, the bird has been visiting our suet feed in Bay Vista Estates, situated on a saltwater marsh and tidal gut emptying into Sinepuxent Bay, just south of the northernmost end of Assateague Island, on the mainland, in Worcester County.
> 
> Enjoy!
> Norm Saunders
> Colesville & West Ocean City, MD
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