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Re: Jug Bay Mystery Bird

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Frode Jacobsen

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Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:40:45 -0400

Sounds like a male Yellow-rumped Warbler to me.

Frode Jacobsen
Baltimore, MD


> I give up, I am stumped. Last weekend I went to Jug Bay for the first time
> and have a lovely albeit freezing time.  I cam across a couple of birds
> that I could not identify - everyone was fluffed up agaisnt the cold and
> not singing so I was a bit flummoxed about the new birds I saw, anyway the
> one that is making me crazy was a small warblery type bird that at first
> glance I thought it was a black and white warbler but when he turned
> around full face in my binoculars he had a fluffy yellow spot on either
> side of his breast and one on his head (crown), all fluffed against the
> bitter cold wind he looked as though he had 3 little yellow pompoms stuck
> on him; he was rather small - larger than a chickadee but not as big or
> perhaps the same lenght but not as robust as a titmouse and his feet were
> more towards the middle of his tum, he was clearly streaked black and
> white, chin quite light and a trim little pointy insect-eating black beak,
> not short, not overly long. He was
>  snoofling around fairly low on branches. black feet and eyes as well; l
> did not hear him make any sounds unfortunately, if he did, it was carried
> away by the wind, which was pretty brutal. I was thinking he must be
> someone molting into his spring get-up and so was not quite finished
> getting dressed, so to speak and that wasmaking him harder to ID given
> that he was fluffed up as well.  Can anyone give me a clue what the
> little guy might have been?  Must go back there, the place is gorgeous
> and only about 15 minutes away. Thanks.
>   Cat Reid
>   Rose Haven
>
>
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Frode Jacobsen
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Department of Biological Sciences
University of Maryland Baltimore County
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