From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Nov 24 09:18:23 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAOHGK7s013684 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:16:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAOHFrZS013649 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.1 #46498) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:15:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:15:48 -0800 (PST) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii cc: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] - 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]] Folks: This morning, 11/24/2002, I stopped by at Shoreline Lake hoping to study the male Barrow's x Common Goldeneye. Instead, I had to settle for the male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE that was foraging and then preening at the boathouse end of the lake. This male had a typical facial crescent that was sharply pointed at its upper end and extended above the eye. The light was diffuse, but the had gloss appeared deep blue or purple at times. The forehead was quite steep, depending upon how the feathers were held. The scapular pattern was of fairly small white "windows" in an otherwise black upper wing and depending upon preening these were well separated or sometimes the forward ones were overlapped. The shoulder spur was sometimes seen to extend to the at water level, while foraging, but while preening this spur sometimes nearly disappeared. Generally, it was about the length that is shown in field guides. As best I can tell, this description is close to what Mike Rogers provided earlier in the week. I made counts of DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS (315) and SURF SCOTERS (20) while there. At the rate the cormorants were catching fish, it's hard to believe they won't clean out the lake shortly. Bill _______________________________________________ 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]]