I misspoke about the state record business.  Here are Matt Hafner's words:

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"I believe you meant Worcester County record.  The 'albilora' subspecies breeds 
in the piedmont and west.  However, records outside of the breeding range are 
few and far between because either no one looks at migrants, or they get lost 
among the "dominica" that breed on the coastal plain."
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I imagine the breeding range for the "dominica" nominate subspecies is on the Eastern Shore and possibly the Western Shore coastal plain but I'm not sure to what extent, if at all, this breeding range overlaps with the "albilora" range.

Norm

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> 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. 
> > 
> > Fran has pictures she took in January at: 
> > 
> > http://home.att.net/~fcsaunders/ytwarb/ 
> > 
> > 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: 
> > 
> > http://home.att.net/~fcsaunders/ytwarbII/ 
> > 
> > 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 
> >  
> > 
> >