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All,

After an unsuccessful quick stop for the Alviso RUFF yesterday, I
succeeded in locating the bird today 8/10/03.  This bird, a molting
adult female and likely our returning bird, suddenly appeared at
11:04am from behind the strip of green vegetation along the back edge
of the first pond east of the railroad tracks as one heads north from
the EEC entrance road in Alviso.  It still has a fair amount of
mottled black in patches on the breast but the throat and face show no
remnants of alternate plumage.  The uppermost tertials on either side
of the bird have been dropped, revealing the normally hidden bases of
the tertials below them.  Two LESSER YELLOWLEGS were also here today.

Quick stop at the CCFS waterbird pond both days were uneventful.
Yesterday 8/9/03 there were 28+ SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 2 CASPIAN TERNS
overhead, an immature COOPER'S HAWK, 1 WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and less
than one hundred peeps (WESTERN and LEAST).  Today the water level was
raised and there were no peeps at all (although one SPOTTED SANDPIPER
flew in with two LEASTS from the sludge ponds only to depart without
landing).  Another interesting bird yesterday 8/9/03 was a NORTHERN
(RED-SHAFTED) FLICKER flying between the eucalyptus trees along the
edge of the sludge ponds adjacent to the CCFS trailer - this is very
early for a fall bird on the valley floor.

Mike Rogers
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