Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:32:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Richard McGuinness Subject: Re: Blue-Winged Warblers at Croyden Creek Just curious where Croyden Creek is located. Thanks, > ** Original Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Blue-Winged Warblers at Croyden Creek > ** Original Sender: Bruce and /or Karen Stewart > ** Original Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:25:32 -0400 > ** Original Message follows... > > I was intrigued by the exchange about Blue-wings at Croyden Creek because I > have never seen a Blue-Winged warbler and Croyden Creek is a short detour > off my route home. So yesterday at 5 PM I was sitting on that lovely back > porch at the nature center waiting for the warblers. I watched a flock of > chipping sparrows on the grass, titmouse, goldfinch, downy, nuthatch taking > their turns at the feeder. I took a careful look at the birds at hand. It > occurred to me that I was looking at a small yellow bird with completely > yellow underparts, dark wings, no streaking at all on its yellow breast, > white wing bars, a black eye spot, and the wings formed a lovely black and > white pattern when folded on its back. It was a goldfinch, maybe immature > or molting or I don't know what but the black forehead was incompletely > black. It was more like an elongated eye patch. It didn't extend behind > the eye the way a blue wing eye stripe would but it didn't look like the > completely black forehead in the field guide either. I'm not saying the > goldfinch is the same bird you saw but check the field guide and imagine the > bird with black only on the eye. Could it be? > > Karen Stewart > Chevy Chase MD > stewkb@erols.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > Richard McGuinness Greenbelt, MD torich1@mindspring.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================