From [[email protected]] Sun Oct 6 15:55:50 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g96Mtokw023955; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from highstream.net (mail.highstream.net [65.214.41.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g96Msgkw023800 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default [68.130.93.9] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id AE989F7700CA; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:52:08 -0400 Message-ID: <05db01c26d8b$4f206500$ee098244@default> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> To: "south bay birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:54:19 -0700 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-Note: This E-mail was scanned for spam. Subject: [SBB] Sunnyvale WPCP and fennel patch X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b3+ Precedence: list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] Sunday morning, Pat Kenny and I parked in the usual place next to the WPCP and walked around the dump hill to the fennel patch by Yahoo at Caribbean & Mathilda, then out towards the bay and clockwise around the "West" pond, returning on the inner levee. The fennel patch had a lot of YELLOW WARBLERs and nearly as many ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERs, with a few LINCOLN SPARROWs. There were four male BLUE-WINGED TEALs in the Lockheed-property pond at the NW corner of the dump hill. The pond further west had both kinds of YELLOWLEGs, and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was on the fence. A SORA was in the NW corner of the "West" pond (corner next to the jet fuel dock). A juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPER flew into the channel between the "West" and "East" ponds. There were at least two BONAPARTE'S GULLs in the "West" pond off the channel, one apparently missing some of its primaries; its wings were crossed over and showed what appeared to be a single white primary with black tip on each wing. Finally, about 1pm, a PHALAROPE flew into the "West" pond and spent an hour or more on the offshore side of what's left of the algae mat near the small island of reeds, where we left it. My initial reaction was that it had too heavy a bill to be a RED-NECKED, but in the end I come down firmly on the side of indecision. Here is what I saw: dark central tail stripe as it flew away from me, black eye patch turning lower behind the eye, that heavy bill the same length as the width of the head, dark brown or black tertials(?) with light edging, darker at the base of the neck than in the middle of the back, patterning on the relatively light gray middle of the back uncertain, very light gray wash down the front of the neck 3/4s of the way to the water. No useful size comparisons, lousy light, all the usual excuses. I assume this was a molting juvenile. Roland Kenner _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list [[email protected]] http://plaidworks.com/mailman/listinfo/south-bay-birds