Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6DGYit25450 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:34:45 -0700 Received: from host213-1-193-107.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.1.193.107] helo=athomeuser) by rhenium.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17TPr0-00052G-00 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:34:43 +0100 Message-ID: <000701c22a8b$0a529440$6bc101d5@athomeuser> From: "Andy Gibb" <[[email protected]]> To: "South Bay Birds Mailing" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:31:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Subject: [SBB] Shoreline this morning Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: The path by Charleston Slough provided an unexpected Tree Swallow in with the clouds of Cliff and Barn Swallows. There were also a few Greater Scaup and Pintails. Shorebirds included plenty of Willets and a few Marbled Godwits, Least Sandpipers, (Long-billed?) Dowitchers and Greater Yellowlegs. Andy Received: from lawmail4.stanford.edu (lawmail4.Stanford.EDU [171.64.210.173]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6DM4Vt29785 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:04:31 -0700 To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.4 June 8, 2000 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:51:48 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on lawmail4/stanford(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 07/13/2002 02:51:54 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Arastradero Preserve Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: A nice walk up and back the creekside trail this morning yielded 50 species. Started with a GOLDEN EAGLE overflight at the parking lot, where a young TREE SWALLOW had its head out and looked just about ready to depart from the nest box. At the lake, two GREEN HERONS were briefly together on the same phone wires where the swallows perch. I was able to find 4 species of swallows over the lake (lacking barn). One BELTED KINGFISHER was perched by the lake -- they aren't usual here, so this is presumably a post-breeding roamer -- there was one last year too. Most of the action was between the lake and the pond. Three BAND-TAILED PIGEONS flew down from the foothills and along the creek. Along with the expected ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHERS (2) I found one PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER and one (heard only) WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE. A HOUSE WREN was feeding young in a nest in an oak at the junction with the trail that leads up the hill. A silent WARBLING VIREO was foraging, as were two adult and one juvenile BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS. LAZULI BUNTINGS were the big sale item with five males, all singing, and three females. A pair of WESTERN BLUEBIRDS were feeding young in nestbox #3. JUNCOS were much more common than usual -- I saw 100+ on or near the trail, in flocks averaging about 10. Many LESSER GOLDFINCH were courting and feeding on the thistles upslope from the trail -- I kept an eye and ear out for Lawrence's, but no luck. Tom Grey [[email protected]] Received: from ispwestemail.aceweb.net (mail.ispwest.com [216.52.245.18]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6E2tst01516 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:55:54 -0700 Received: from drake (unverified [65.45.152.9]) by ispwestemail.aceweb.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.4.231) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:49:38 -0700 From: "Jonathan V Hays" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:55:33 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c22ae1$ef5db820$3300000a@drake> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id g6E2tst01516 Subject: [SBB] mockingbird behavior Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I've noticed a fledgling Mockingbird feeding on the lawn and the lawn across the street. While it's on the ground it stops and opens and closes its wings several times like a mechanical doll - open halfway - stop - open full - stop - close halfway - stop - close. Is this normal behavior for young Mockingbirds? (or maybe a lot of fledglings do this?) Jonathan Received: from pimout4-int.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.103]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6E4K1t02503 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:20:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (adsl-64-171-188-111.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.171.188.111]) by pimout4-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id g6E4K1t403422 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:20:01 -0400 From: Joseph Morlan <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] mockingbird behavior Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:19:53 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> References: <[[email protected]]> <000701c22ae1$ef5db820$3300000a@drake> In-Reply-To: <000701c22ae1$ef5db820$3300000a@drake> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:55:33 -0700, "Jonathan V Hays" <[[email protected]]> wrote: >While it's on the ground it stops and opens and >closes its wings several times like a mechanical doll - open halfway - >stop - open full - stop - close halfway - stop - close. It's a foraging technique. The Mockingbird casts a shadow on the lawn and leaps forward startling small insects. The bird then grabs the insect. I've seen it in both adults and young. -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA 94044: mailto:[[email protected]] Fall Birding Classes start Sept 4: http://fog.ccsf.org/~jmorlan/ California Bird Records Committee: http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/ Received: from [64.81.78.186] (dsl081-078-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.78.186]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6E6Jlt03882; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:19:47 -0700 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:19:42 -0700 From: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> To: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Advance warning -- upgrades coming to plaidworks and the mail lists. Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I just want to give everyone advance warning of this. I'm working on a new system to replace the existing server that runs plaidworks.com, chuqui.com and our mail lists here. If you want the full story, you can get it here: The short summary of what's coming is: O New hardware, and a switch from Linux to MacOS X O I'll be upgrading the list server to Mailman 2.1beta. This gives us a lot of improvements and new features, but being beta, may also bring some glitches. But one purpose of this site is to be a guinea pig for these things, and it's time to do some testing as Mailman 2.1 gets ready for release. O Lots of other changes, most of which won't affect the mail lists. I'm not sure of the timeframe yet. If I'm lucky, I'll be ready to upgrade in about two weeks. I'm betting it'll be closer to a month. As I get close enough to set a date, I'll let everyone know, and at that time, send out more details about what to expect as far as changes to the list server system. For the most part, the changes won't be too messy (posting addresses won't change, you won't need to resubscribe, existing things won't break). I hope the upgrade will be mostly invisble and painless. I doubt I'll completely succeed, but we'll try. Thanks for your understanding as we make these changes... Chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [[email protected]] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ No! No! Dead girl, OFF the table! -- Shrek