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Folks:

This morning, 8/29/2003, I checked the Palo Alto Baylands and the end of 
Embarcadero Way for early landbird migrants, but found none.  Two unfledged 
SNOWY EGRETS are in a nest at the Palo Alto Duck Pond and I counted 5 
immature birds in the palms, presumably still dependent on their 
parents.  A juvenile BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON was here as well and I 
suspect that this species nested here this year as adults have been present 
throughout the season.

I then made a visit to New Chicago Marsh where I found two juvenile 
PECTORAL SANDPIPERS east of the RR tracks.  I then joined Dean Manley, Bob 
Reiling and Dave McIntyre at State and Spreckles.  Dean had been studying a 
godwit-like bird here that he had also seen Wednesday and Thursday.  Based 
on the power of group thinking we concluded it was juvenile HUDSONIAN 
GODWIT and Dave McIntyre was then kind enough to call Mammoser and Rogers 
on his cell phone.  Just after Mike Mammoser arrived, the godwit flew and 
we were delighted in the contrast on the lower wing between the black 
underwing coverts and white bases on the secondaries and inner primaries, 
creating a white stripe.  The black tail and white rump was also quite 
distinctive.  This bird appears to have less pink-flesh coloring on the 
inner portion of the bill than is typical.  We have two previous records 
for the county: another juvenile at Sunnyvale in 1990 and a 1st-spring bird 
at the Sunnyvale-Santa Clara WPCP drying ponds in 2000.  I left before Mike 
Mammoser found the Stilt Sandpiper, sigh.

Bill

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