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I went to Shoreline around high tide (midday) yesterday, and was clicking
away at shorebirds driven in to forage on the flats in Adobe Creek, when a
small group of phalaropes showed up. They were all in molt, and seem all --
at least all that I got reproducible pictures of -- to have been
Red-necked. Here are five phalaropes in four pictures (though I think they
are just four separate birds); I've been trying to figure out sex and age.

 1. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/PhalMolting.jpg
Adult female RNPH?

2. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/PhalMolting2.jpg
Juvenile RNPH?

3. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/PhalWESA.jpg
With juvenile Western Sandpiper (lots of them in attendance), adult RNPH,
molt gone too far to determine sex from plumage pattern?

4. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/Phals.jpg
Left, adult RNPH, furthest molted of any of these -- male by size? Right,
looks to be the same bird as (2), juvenile RNPH.

In other news, the Cliff Swallows were posing nicely. Here is a juvenile
making use of solar energy.
http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/CliffSwallowJuv.jpg

Tom Grey
Stanford Law School
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