From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Aug 16 21:56:46 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7H4t0kU003545 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net (mtaw4.prodigy.net [64.164.98.52]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7H4sOVK003507 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from KrisDesktop (adsl-64-169-18-243.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.18.243]) by mtaw4.prodigy.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h7H4sMIu026152 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:54:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]> To: "'South Bay Birders'" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:54:21 -0700 Message-ID: <013201c3647b$9fdcd270$6601a8c0@KrisDesktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h7H4sOVK003507 Subject: [SBB] SVale Sewage: Semipalmated Sandpiper continues 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]] I took a short early evening walk tonight at the Sunnyvale sewage ponds with my husband (who is a definite non-birder and is amused by going to sewer ponds). We ran into no other birders. :( But I did refind the juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER on the algae mat in the northeast corner. [There is a very useful map on Kendric Smith's site: http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/PondMaps/SV.html]. The Semi was with many Least Sandpipers, who were bossing it around (I had read that Semis tend to be aggressive, but this one looked pretty timid) and several Westerns. Also present were 2-3 SEMIPLAMATED PLOVERS and 9 basic-plumaged BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the way out among the terns. One Brown Pelican was in the East pond. I did not refind the Pectoral Sandpiper nor the Black Terns; I would say that birding here in the evening, looking directly into the sun, is not too brilliant an idea, but the warm winds were wonderful and soothing. The Semipalmated Sandpiper was a plain brown, lighter than the rich Least Sandpipers. It had light outlines around its feathers. White supercillium that touched the top of its short, thick bill -- looking like a V going back from the bill. Its breast had some faint streaking, but generally was plain white. Legs were grayish, not black. Since I am not very experienced with this species, I have been looking at various photos on the web and found this one that looks quite similar: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/rrf3/ Good birding! Kris Olson Menlo Park, CA _______________________________________________ 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]]