From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Oct 23 19:45:03 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9O2gU1H005054 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9O2fnhh005009 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0039.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.39] helo=216.244.42.39) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 184XwR-0002sH-00 for [[email protected]]; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:41:48 -0700 Date: 23 Oct 2002 19:41:46 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 2.1 (Mac) X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-Ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id g9O2fnhh005009 Subject: [SBB] Fox Sparrows X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b3+ Precedence: list Cc: South Bay Birding <[[email protected]]> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: [[email protected]] Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] I looked out my kitchen window today and saw that a few FOX SPARROWs had arrived in my yard. As I parsed through the group, a few more emerged. Eventually, I counted up to six of them. Four were sooty types, one of which seemed smaller than the others. One of the remaining two was gray in the face and brown in the crown. I wasn't able to study this one as much as the last one. The last one was clearly "colder" gray in the crown, face, mantle and lesser coverts. The greater secondary coverts, primaries and tail were rufous-brown. No wing-bars or back streaking were evident. The elongated triangular area just above the malar stripe (supramalar?) was a contrasting white compared to the tan-tone of this same feature on the sooty-types. The breast markings were blackish brown, not appearing very warm in color. Bill was bicolored and did not appear large. My guess is that this was a schistacea Slate-colored Fox Sparrow. I'd like to think that the other gray-faced individual fit the description of an altivagans Slate-colored. As far as the sooties go, who knows.... So, now I'm waiting for a zaboria and a megarhyncha to join the group, and maybe I can get them all in one field guide-like photo! VARIED THRUSHes are singing truncated songs out back. Oh, my yard is on the east side of Skyline Blvd. by Long Ridge Open Space Preserve, roughly halfway between Page Mill Rd. and Saratoga Gap. Les -- Les Chibana BirdNUTZ(TM) - Ornigasmic Birding em <[[email protected]]> - web ph 650-949-4335 - fx 650-949-4137 snailmail: SR 2, Box 335, La Honda CA 94020 _______________________________________________ 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]]