From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Feb 14 16:21:09 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1F0JC4t025686 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m05.mx.aol.com (imo-m05.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.8]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1F0IPSE025643 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:18:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.21.) id t.33.340d672b (4446) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:17:52 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:17:52 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] County birding 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I decided to check local bay-side hotspots in hopes of finding something "mentionable." Our best birds were a sleeping, male BLUE-WINGED TEAL (North Pond in the Palo Alto Flood Control Basin) and a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER (in Shoreline Lake). The Red-breasted Merganser was somewhat unusual in that it had a dark face, in front of the eye above and below the bill (perhaps dirty or stained?). A PEREGRINE FALCON was on a power tower west of the Yacht Harbor Entrance. We spent a lot of time looking at Gulls and did find an unusual Gull in this same area. The Gull was a second or third year bird (grayish mantle, brownish-gray wings, blackish primaries, whitish head, chest and lower parts) whose legs were a charcoal gray (same color all the way up so not dirty or stained) with pink highlights. The bill was mostly black with some lighter areas (pinkish?) at the base and was fairly heavy looking. Another, second, unusual marking was dark gray to black greater coverts. The Gull was larger than the RING-BILLED GULLS near it and seemed to prefer perching on the top fence posts, etc., rather than on the ground. A very unusual looking bird and seemed to be fairly tame allowing a couple to walk fairly close to it. Take care, Bob Reiling, 4:15 PM, 2/14/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]