From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Oct 31 14:47:37 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9VMiW7s011944 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9VMhXke011870 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0288.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.33] helo=209.179.199.33) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 187O2G-0005j1-00 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:43:32 -0800 Date: 31 Oct 2002 14:43:31 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] RUBY!!! Crown 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 g9VMhXke011870 X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4+ 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]] Ruby-crowned Kinglets and many other species that display colorful feathers (also, gorget flashing and display flight in hummers) also apparently do these things as a feeding territorial display, too. And a lack of a ruby-crown as seen in the field doesn't necessarily mean a female. It could have been another male that didn't display. 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 On Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:10 AM, Richard Carlson <[[email protected]]> wrote: >On Wed., 10/30, on my morning bike'n bird at the Stierlin Ct. marsh I found >a Rubycrown male with his crest fully erect chattering and chasing a female. >I thought that happened only in breeding season? The crest was huge and >brilliant. > >Also, found no Burrowing owls with construction getting ever closer to their >main sites. What the blazes is Mtn. View doing now? > >Richard C. Carlson >Full Time Birder, Biker & Rotary Bureaucrat >Part-time Economist >Palo Alto & Lake Tahoe, CA >[[email protected]] >650-949-9590 _______________________________________________ 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]]