From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Nov 14 15:25:16 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAENMq7s002000 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAENMQke001966 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from c363625c ([12.234.122.134]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20021114230907.BHJN13797.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@c363625c> for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:09:07 +0000 Message-ID: <002901c28c32$ff0eab00$[[email protected]]> From: "Peggy L. Don" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:10:16 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1b4+ Subject: [SBB] Tropical Kingbird at CCFS Continues 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id gAENMq7s002000 SBBers, This morning, November 14, 2002, Linda Sullivan and I went to CCFS to refind the Tropical Kingbird. We parked on the road by the north fence. Linda stayed by the car and I walked east toward the creek. Around 9:30 AM I saw the Tropical Kingbird perched by the creek on a rail just south of the McCarthy Road bridge. By the time I drew Linda's attention the bird had flown. I turned to check the north fence and there it was just a little to the west of us. We were able to study it closely for about 10 minutes as it posed for us, occasionally flycatching. Then for the next 10 minutes it would sally forth for a bug and then return to the fence moving westward about 5 feet each time. It was so cooperative that when Linda said that the kingbird should come back to us it flew and perched right in front of us and stayed for another 5 minutes. Eventually it flew toward the creek and landed several times on the bridge railing. Then it flew closer toward the creek where it perched alternately on a couple of small leafless trees/bushes before we lost sight of it. We paid particular attention to its tail feathers. Initially they were askew to the left side but later the tail appeared more symmetrical and we were able to see that the tail was well-notched. We stopped to look for the White-throated Sparrow along San Tomas Aquino Creek on the way back but were unable to find it. So much of the vegetation is laying down because of the creek overflowing from the recent rain. Peggy Don _______________________________________________ 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]]