From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Nov 5 10:07:02 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA5I3h7s007918 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r09.mx.aol.com (imo-r09.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.105]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA5I38ke007882 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.140.1ffcbad (657) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:02:56 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:02:56 EST Subject: Re: [SBB] San Tomas Aquino Creek Goodies MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1b4+ X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4+ Precedence: list Cc: South Bay Birding <[[email protected]]> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: [[email protected]] Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] All, Some clarification on the bridges referenced in my previous report. The first bridge would be the one at Mission College Blvd., the next bridge upstream was the one at Hwy 101 (I did not count the foot bridge) and the last bridge upstream was at Scott Blvd. This was a new area for me and I could not convince myself that I had crossed under Hwy 101. When seen from a distance the first winter Clay-colored Sparrow is a fairly small, light colored sparrow when compared to crowned sparrows. Our bird had a finely striped crown (dark brown on light brown) with a fairly bold whitish stripe down the middle. The nape and side of the neck was gray (giving the bird that gray collard look typical of Spizella sparrows). The supercillium was buffy colored, the auricular patch was a dark brown edged (top and front) buffy-brown, the bird had a dark eye with a small whitish eyering (one side seemed more obvious than the other), the lores was not dark (was a light buffy-brown), the bill was a orangish and dark tipped (the upper mandible looked a bit darker at times), the throat was whitish with a fairly fine brownish moustacial stripe, underparts were unstreaked whitish with a buffy breastband that extended along the flanks. The mantle was brownish with a few heavy dark brown streaks, the wing was brownish with the buffy tips of the coverts (median and greater?) forming two fairly bright wingbars. I was unable to note the color of the rump and uppertail coverts. The tail was fairly long and well notched, legs were a bright pinkish-orange. Hope this helps, Bob Reiling, 9:57 AM, 11/5/02 _______________________________________________ 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]]