Subject: Re: winter mountain birding
Date: Dec 30 14:46:25 1994
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM


Dennis the knowledgable sez:
> Teresa, is there any chance your birds were Clark's Nutcrackers? I can't
> imagine any other "white" (= pale) birds in such a setting. Were they a
> tight flock, or just a bunch of birds? If you know they weren't
> nutcrackers, then I give up :-)

That was my first guess, but I didn't post it because she talked about
"all white", "white with just a touch of brown on the breast", "whitish",
etc.

Clarkie's are very pale grey so "white" could fit, but she didn't say
anything about black wings!

So, Teresa: did you just forget to mention black wings? If so, Clark's
Nutcrackers are the obvious choice and they do hang out in winter.

Maybe they're all albino?

-Don Baccus-