From [[email protected]] Tue Oct 8 08:21:34 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g98FJf19002084; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f54.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.54]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g982n6kw023580 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:49:05 -0700 Received: from 172.172.213.120 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:49:05 GMT X-Originating-IP: [172.172.213.120] From: "Brian Acord" <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:49:05 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2002 02:49:05.0551 (UTC) FILETIME=[4446B9F0:01C26E75] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:19:28 -0700 Subject: [SBB] Merlin, Nutmeg, Black & White 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]] Hi everyone, I was in the Bay Area over the weekend and birded a few places around San Jose. Saturday (10/5) evening on my way home from Kirigin Cellars in Gilroy, I stopped by Uvas Res. to check out what shorebirds were lingering in the shallows on the north end of the reservoir. The first bird I saw was a sparrow looking thing with all kinds of white in the head! I was thinking Rosy Finch (ya, right). Turns out it was a "White-headed" DARK-EYED JUNCO; It was a partial albino with the head mostly white with some black flakes. A MERLIN showed up trying to catch some typical shorebirds: KILL, GEYE, LESA, SPSA, BNST. On Sunday (10/6) morning (8ish) I stopped by the Santa Clara Valley Water Dist. offices on Almaden Expy. and found a NUTMEG MANIKIN carrying grass nest material to a pepper tree. I watched the bird make several trips (kinda late to be breeding?). This morning (10/7) I went back to the water dist. offices to get a picture of the Manikin carrying material, but only found 2 NUTMEG MANIKINS perched next to the nest in the tree. Shortly after they flew off to the north together. On my way back to the parking lot I was surprised by a very close BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER gleaning food from a sycamore/maple sapling. ~Brian _______________________________________________ Brian Acord Wildlife Research Assistant Humboldt State University Department of Wildlife 707-826-3581 [[email protected]] [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list [[email protected]] http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/listinfo/south-bay-birds