From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Nov 6 17:35:15 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA71Xb7s002317 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from highstream.net (mail3.highstream.net [65.214.41.67]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA71Wxke002281 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:33:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from default [68.130.95.60] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id A2D491500096; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:33:08 -0500 Message-ID: <060701c285fd$921a1c40$875f8244@default> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:31:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-RBL-Warning: This E-mail came from 68.130.95.60, a potential spam source listed in OSDUL. X-Note: This E-mail was scanned for spam. Subject: [SBB] Skyline 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]] This morning, Pat Kenny and I went looking for interesting birds along Skyline in the vicinity of Castle Rock State Park. From the Castle Rock parking area, we went across Skyline and walked the Summit Rock Loop, finding nothing better than a TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, a small flock of VARIED THRUSHes and a brief, tantalizing look at a red breasted bird at the top of a tall fir tree. Back at the Castle Rock parking lot, Pat saw a bird on a tall thin snag on the hill directly across Hwy 35. The bird flew from the snag to the v-shaped top of a fir where we had a brief, frontal, long distance, scope view before the bird left for good. It was an erect, long tailed, slender bird, gray in color with a slight, uniform tannish tinge in the breast, very plain. There was nothing to compare for size, but the impression was of a big bird in the Northern Mockingbird class. The face was grayer than the rest of the bird with prominent white behind the eye, dark between the eye and the bill, and a very short, stubby dark bill. Off this limited evidence, I think this was a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE. We saw the bird while we were standing 15' from the restroom in the Castle Rock parking lot, looking up the hill that is on the Sanborn side of Hwy 35. We waited 30 minutes for a return visit to one of the tall trees, and checked again on our way home but didn't see the bird. Roland Kenner _______________________________________________ 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]]