From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Jan 13 19:54:47 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0E3qr4p005212 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net (barry.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.25]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0E3qKSE005173 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-2ivfljm.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.214.118] helo=pavilion) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18YI7e-0002sb-00 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:52:19 -0500 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Sender: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:48:30 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: amphibian <[[email protected]]> In-Reply-To: <01c101c2bb7c$4eeba4c0$6401a8c0@computer> References: <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [SBB] Rusty Blackbird and another mystery bird 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]] At 07:23 PM 1/13/03 -0800, Richard C. Carlson wrote: >Rusty Blackbird gone by about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Her Brewer's companions all >departed ata bout 4. I was there after 4:30 and there were plenty of blackbirds, including the Rusty. Brewers are staple fare in that lot, so if the Rusty sticks around, it's a likely spot to keep seeing her. While we're on the topic of unlikely sightings, my husband thinks he saw a pair/2 California Gnatcatchers this afternoon in Los Altos. He's even more of an amateur at this sighting business than I am, and welcomes suggestions for alternate IDs, but says he's very sure that the one he saw well had a black CAP, not a hood, not on the nape (which would SEEM to rule out White-breasted Nuthatch, my best guess otherwise). The birds were apparently hunting bugs in the bark of a Chinese elm in typically Nuthatch-ian ways, and were largely grey with some white and black markings. He looked at Sibley's at the time and came up with the gnatcatcher idea, and is not good at telling me distinct details apart from saying it looked just like those :). So, keep an eye out for unlikely gnatcatchers in the vicinity of Milverton Rd in Los Altos near downtown, and meanwhile, has anyone seen a White-breasted Nuthatch with no apparent reddish under parts and a dark cap rather than cap-plus-nape? Thanks, Natasha _______________________________________________ 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]]