From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Feb 2 13:53:15 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h12Lp74x018693 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [63.70.210.59]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h12LnsSE018635 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS1 SMTP Relay (MMS v5.5.0)); Sun, 02 Feb 2003 13:46:36 -0700 Received: from mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com [10.20.128.21]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA16918 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:49:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/SSM) with SMTP id h12LnMVE028885 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:49:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:48:24 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal X-WSS-ID: 12234E36605312-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] : X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 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]] On Sunday, 2 Feb 03, I visited the impoundment north of the Alviso Marina just before the peak of high tide, about 11:30 til 12:00. There were probably close to 1000 shorebirds in the impoundment, which is the most I've seen here in a long time. Included with the WESTERN SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, and DUNLIN were an amazing 29 SANDERLINGS, the adult female RUFF, and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS. Outside of work here in Santa Clara I saw a large falcon soaring over Great America Park. I thought it was a Peregrine because the underwings looked rather uniform. But as I watched it circle, it showed the sandy brown upperparts color and the single mustache mark of a PRAIRIE FALCON. I then concentrated on the underwings, but was only able to see that the axillaries possibly looked a little more dusky than the rest of the wing - still fairly uniform looking. Has anyone else ever seen a Prairie Falcon exhibit such uniform looking underwings? Mike Mammoser _______________________________________________ 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]]