From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Feb 2 15:17:30 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h12NFQ4x019777 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h12NEcSE019733 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0170.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.250.170]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18fTJU-00050S-00 for [[email protected]]; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:14:13 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:12:18 -0700 From: "Jim Danzenbaker" <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] SEOW & Ruff 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]] South Bay Birders: (Highlights only) This morning, I started birding at Bixbee Park in Palo Alto at 6:30 am and almost immediately had a SHORT-EARED OWL flying around briefly before heading out of sight beyond a hill. Also in the area was a single BURROWING OWL. At the impoundment north of the Alviso Marina, the RUFF found by Al Eisner yesterday was easily visible from 9 am onwards. We also saw it at 1:30 at the end of our hike. Also in the area were 12-15 SANDERLINGs and 3-4 LESSER YELLOWLEGS! Sharing the view were Dennis Braddy, Pat Kenney and Roland Kenner. Dennis and I walked quite a ways around the ponds and eventually arrived at one pond several miles away (sorry, don't know the pond number - I lost my Alviso Pond Map) that was loaded with ducks which included three drake EURASIAN WIGEONs and very distant REDHEADs. A dark PEREGRINE was the highlight of the walk back to the cars. Dennis and I saw an interesting large third winter gull (about the size of a Herring Gull) with an almost all black thick bill (some pale flesh at the base of the lower mandible), dark eye, dark primary tips, and mostly gray mantle and wings (in between Herring and Western shade of gray). Mostly white breast and belly with only slight brownish smudging on the lower belly. The head was mostly all white. Legs were a dusky pink. It was seen on the first pathway that heads west (not including the path that is not accessible to foot traffic) after the northern end of the impoundment along the railroad tracks. Jim Danzenbaker San Jose, CA 408-264-7582 (408-ANI-SKUA) [[email protected]] Falcon's Eye Guiding _______________________________________________ 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]]