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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Hopkins" data-source="post: 3344906" data-attributes="member: 44242">Ok some of my theories, looking at the Washington eBird lists:Trawlers are mergansers:  secret = hooded, spiked = red-breasted, and usual = common.Aurora ruffian = northern harrier or maybe gyrfalconHeckler = magpie?  As in Heckle and Jeckle?Crooners are doves:  Tailored = collared dove, (Like Paul), I think singers are sparrows.  Top-hat is probably golden-crowned, not sure of the others yet.The green-striped XXX are wigeon and teal:  Not sure which is joy and which is bobber.Upper seed-chomper:  Northern cardinalNay-bird:  Raven (Quoth the raven, nevermore.  Sounds pretty negative to me).I'll go with loons for maniac.  Copycat maniac is probably yellow-billed (since it looks exactly like a common).I think yolk-sacs are redpolls (they're white, like eggs).  Average is common, cold is hoary.He mentioned a bird that he got on early on, that he'd get plenty of later.  He called it "Basic Top-side."  I think that's Wilson's warbler.Toasty Newspaper-bird is not an eider.  He mentioned it was roosting behind a tree.Not sure what he's calling the gulls.  Maybe they're the sentinels (Harbor sentinel sounds like a gull).  Then again, harbor sentinel could be a rock sandpiper.And for those wondering, there's about 6" of snow down here in Allentown so far.  But we're on the northern edge of the storm, so we're not likely to get much more than 10".  No big deal, although the wind is pretty fierce right now.</blockquote>

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