From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Aug 6 19:38:52 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h772aJdd005350 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plaidworks.com (dsl081-078-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.78.186]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h772Ymvj005302; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:34:45 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: [[email protected]] From: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Cc: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] of plovers and titmice.... X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , 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]] With some helpful advice from both Al Eisner and Les Chibana and an assist from my Sibley guide (not the one I carry in the car -- I just wasn't sure based on that one), I think I have the plovers identified. The one species I saw today was the Semi-palmated, and the other mingled in with it was the black-bellied in the adult non-breeding plumage that Sibley documents. That was what I wasn't sure about at the time, whether I was seeing plain colored females or a non-breeding plugage. With their suggestions and the drawings in Sibley, I'm now more confident at my ID's. Les also reminds me that you can't sex titmice visually, and he's right. I made an assumption from behavior that it was a pair, given both had adult plumage and were working the feeder together cooperatively, but it's possible it was two individuals or an adult showing a younger bird the ropes. It just seemed from the way they were interacting it was a pair, but I should have made that assumption clear.... (they're cute beasts, too. I've never seen them here before this summer). I've also started seeing goldfinches at the niger again in the last couple of weeks. They abandoned me in June, but I'm starting to see a few re-appearing, all of them juveniles; no adults that I've seen so far. My chestnut-backed chickadees are still around, too.) _______________________________________________ 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]]