From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Aug 7 14:43:15 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h77LfDdd021610 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h77Lcvvj021513 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:38:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id t.1e2.ea20360 (30970) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:38:50 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:38:50 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] County birding 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I first made a quick stop at the Alviso Marina ("usual suspects" only), then the pond at State St & Spreckles Ave (ditto) and then went to the Coyote Creek Field Station "Waterbird Pond." The pond, which is really low on water (in my opinion). had good numbers of Dowitchers and "peeps." We then spent some time trying to find a definitive Semipalmated Sandpiper among the shifting groups of WESTERN and LEAST SANDPIPERS. There were no really short billed "Westerns" so spent time checking the plumage on the shorter billed juvenile Westerns. Unfortunately the rapidly moving "peeps" ultimately prevailed and we left empty handed. We then decided on a quick stop at the first pond northeast of the railroad tracks [right side as you head northwest from the EEC entrance road] in the New Chicago Marsh. [We have seen really good bird activity in this pond in the last week or so.] One of the first birds seen [bad angle] appeared to be a Lesser Yellowlegs but a recheck shortly thereafter revealed the bird to be mostly breeding plumage RUFF. We subsequently watched this bird over the next half hour primarily because it's size indicated that it was not an expected returning Reeve (an over wintering female seen often last fall and this spring) but was most likely a male. On Tuesday Frank and I checked out the mouth of Stevens Creek [2 hours after high tide was good timing] but found nothing unusual. We did have a couple dozen LEAST TERNS in Salt Ponds A2E and B1. A FORSTER'S TERN sitting between a CASPIAN TERN and another FOTE [a LETE was on the other side of the CATE] caused some excitement when it looked to be obviously bigger than the other FOTE [we had Elegant thoughts until it moved]. Good numbers of Dowitchers were noted in Adobe Creek on our final stop at Charleston Slough. Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:33 PM, 8/6/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]