From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Feb 14 11:41:46 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1EJdi4t021204 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:39:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11407.mail.yahoo.com (web11407.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.237]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1EJd9SE021163 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:39:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from [69.3.151.191] by web11407.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:38:52 PST Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:38:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jack Cole <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] Bird Alert 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]] SBBirders, Last Sunday, Feb 9, I saw a couple of birds that you might want to keep an eye out for. At the Palo Alto Duck Pond at about 3:30, I was watching the gulls being fed, noticing the usual suspects like glaucous-winged and Thayers, when I just got my bins on a large, much whiter gull in the middle of the pond when it suddenly took flight and flew directly away. The only thing that caught my eye were the pure white primaries. I don't know how I missed the bill (probably the head was turned), but after reading about the glaucous gulls in the area, perhaps the Duck Pond also bears watching. Interestingly, this was the only gull that flew off. The gull watch included seven ther species. About an hour later I was listening to Virginia rails calling from the west side of the Coastal Casey Forebay, when I saw a black, very small, rail fly across a depression in the reeds. I happened to be looking in that area, so I had a good look, if only for a second, to know that I could rule out everything but a black, very small rail. I spoke with Mike Rogers to verify that there should not be any rail chicks of other species present at this time of year, so black rail would be the only possibility. Bill, are there any records of black rail from the forebay? The habitat isn't right, but stranger things have happened. Someone might want to play a black rail tape there and see if it is answered. Ted Chandik and I spent the better part of an hour searching in vain for dippers in Stevens Creek this morning. Jack Cole --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day _______________________________________________ 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]]