From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Nov 26 13:44:49 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAQLhR7s021445 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:43:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r05.mx.aol.com (imo-r05.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAQLftZS021393 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.199.113968c8 (15899) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:41:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from cs.com (mow-m27.webmail.aol.com [64.12.137.4]) by air-id09.mx.aol.com (v89.21) with ESMTP id MAILINID92-1126164144; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:41:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:41:44 -0500 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Subject: RE: [SBB] late nesting Black Phoebes?; Loggerhead Shrike information MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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]] "Jeff Davis" <[[email protected]]> wrote: >To me the most striking feature of a Black Phoebe in juvenal plumage is its cinnamon wing bars.  You didn't mention this specifically, but did you >notice it? No, I did not. Cinnamon wing-bars on juvenile birds is a field mark known to me and for which I should have checked. So, I went back and looked around 10:30 AM this morning. I easily found the family of three behind the Seimens building adjacent the parking structure referenced in my previous post. They were in the row of ash trees behind the building. Unfortuately, I left the house without my binoculars this morning. Playful behavior ensued for a while with occassional chases, the trio calling back and forth the whole time and periodically resting within inches of each other. Slowly, they made their may along another line of ash trees to a building behind the Seimens' building and into a row of ornimental fruit-bearing trees with blue-black berries (Anyone know what these trees might be? Japanese Privet?). Here I sat quitely and got within six to eight feet of the trio. The young bird sat on the edge of the roof and started making begging cries (as heard yesterday and heard for the first time this morning). The adults would pick the blue-black berries and, as yesterday with insects, stuff the berries into the open begging mouth. At one point, the young bird flew into one of the trees and into good light about six feet away and along a more horizontal line of sight. Faint cinnamon wing bars were then appearent. The base of the bill appeared broad and fleshy, too, the possible remnace of a gape (how long do gapes last?). I left the phoebes around 11:30 AM. Eric Feuss <[[email protected]]> wrote: >Three [Loggerhead] shrikes within about a five mile stretch of the [Guadalupe] river. Not sure where the "five" came from; its about a two mile stretch of the river. _______________________________________________ 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]]