From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Nov 12 14:48:32 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gACMkA7s019255 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com (imo-d03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.35]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gACMjUke019217 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.74.2631e98a (30950) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:45:19 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:45:18 EST 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+ Subject: [SBB] Adult Tropical Kingbird @ CCFS 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, This morning at about 11:00 Frank Vanslager and I had an adult TROPICAL KINGBIRD, first on the fence just north of the CCFS Waterbird Pond and later in the top of a Willow on the East side of the pond (where it repeatedly did the Tropical Kingbird Kee-Kee-Kee-Kee call, always four notes, perhaps somewhat rising in tone). Description below. We also had an adult and a first winter (juvenile) REEVE in the pond at State & Spreckles. The adult winter marked Reeve had bright yellow-orange legs and had fairly uniform light gray upper parts with medium to dark gray centered scapulars, had a uniformly dark bill and is probably the bird that has been seen in this area for the last few months. The first winter bird had yellow-green legs, had much darker looking upper parts with grayish edged but much darker centered scapulars, had a pale base to it's bill and a buffy banded chest and lower neck. This bird also differed in that it had a white striped crown, when seen head-on, whereas the adult had a uniformly marked gray crown. The tertials of the first winter Reeve were unbarred. Earlier, at the gull roosting site east of the Alviso Marina parking area, we had an essentially all white gull, with black primaries (this obviously rules out anything good). We never got a good look at the bill of this gull ('twas sleeping) however, it was the size of CALIFORNIA GULLS near it. We also had a flock of 50+ DUNLIN in the same area. The Environmental Education Center salt pond (A-16) had a couple adult GLOUCOUS-WINGED GULLS (also a few WESTERN, California, HERRING and RING-BILLED GULLS). An adult PEREGRINE FALCON was on a power tower along the entrance road to the EEC. The settling pond southwest of the CCFS banding trailer had perhaps a hundred MEW GULLS mixed in with lots of California Gulls (also a few Herring and Ring-billed Gulls.) The only notable thing about the CCFS Waterbird Pond is that the water level is much too high! A brief look for a Palm Warbler in the area of the training nets was to no avail. The Tropical Kingbird was first found at about 11:00 AM fly catching from the wire fence located across the road from the northern edge of the CCFS Waterbird Pond. The bird then flew across the pond and landed in the top of a willow on the southern edge of the pullout located on the eastern edge of the pond. The bird then spent several minutes doing it's distinctive call from the top of this tree and was still there when we finished our observations. The head was a light gray with a fairly wide, darker gray eyestripe (from the base of the bill to the auriculars), the mantle was olive green, the wings and tail were a dark grayish brown, the coverts were light gray edged, a greenish highlight was noted on the edges of the secondaries and the tips of the primaries were unevenly spaced. The tail was well notched. The throat was white with a very light gray edge. The underparts were bright yellow from the end of the undertail coverts to well onto the chest where the yellow took on a slightly greenish cast. The heavy black bill was long (being longer than one half the length of the head). Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:27 PM, 11/12/02 _______________________________________________ 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]]