From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Dec 12 00:51:56 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBC8nYPK022558 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:49:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from la.znet.com (zippnet.com [207.167.96.2]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBC8msUP022516 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:48:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [66.52.162.171] (66-52-162-171.oak.inetworld.net [66.52.162.171] (may be forged)) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id hBC8mm6n004541 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:48:49 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:49:31 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Alviso fun 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]] Hi All, Today, Thursday (12/11), I made a quick trip to Alviso, stimulated in part by Bob Reiling's wednesday report. At noon, I quickly found a SPOTTED SANDPIPER at the pond just S.E. of Hwy 237 and Gold St. After watching it forage for awhile I heard a Red-tailed Hawk call and looked up. A very large eagle looking dark raptor was glinding in low over the south landfill ridge and approaching the pond. I heard a red tail call again but it looks like an eagle to me. For a second or two random thoughts raced through the mind. Well, they put red tail calls to eagles in most movies but this wasn't the movies! Random thoughts were quickly extinguished as the raptor turned with the sun nicely windowing the white based tail of a juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE. This juvenile had both upper and lower white wing patches. By now the vocal RED-TAILED HAWK had been in my field of view and it took a couple of passes at the eagle. After a while the GOEA disappeared back over the ridge to the south and the RTHA was silent. Dean Manley _______________________________________________ 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]]