From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Dec 24 12:51:39 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBOKnCoK026575 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:49:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBOKmTwO026530 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:48:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [12.255.140.38] (12-255-140-38.client.attbi.com[12.255.140.38]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <20021224204827002000e6kge>; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:48:27 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:49:33 -0800 From: Dennis Braddy <[[email protected]]> To: SouthBayBirds <[[email protected]]> Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Red Phalaropes at Lake Cunningham X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4+ Precedence: list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] SouthBayBirders, After missing the Greater Roadrunner on Crothers Road this morning, we stopped by Lake Cunningham to try for the Red Phalaropes reported there. North of the Marina we found 3 feeding RED PHALAROPES. Nervously flitting about, they often came quite close. It's pretty hard to keep a frenetic phalarope in a 60x spotting-scope view at 30 feet! ;-) One had an obvious yellow patch on the base of each mandible. Another had upper-wing coverts noticeably darker than its back and darker than the coverts on the other two phalaropes. The remaining bird had neither feature. Do any of these three sound familiar to those of you who recently saw phalaropes at Lake Cunningham? A pair of calling Greater Yellowlegs flew across the lake and landed in the pond at the north end. Nineteen American White Pelicans slowly cruised the surface of the lake or slept with Double-crested Cormorants on the island. Violet-green Swallows and one or two Tree Swallows filled the air space over the water. Above them all White-throated Swifts maintained top speed with the barest twitches of their wings. Dennis and Patricia Braddy San Ramon _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]