From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jan 23 14:12:51 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0NM9X4r010302 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0NM8lSE010262 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.140.8843ba8 (16484) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:08:21 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:08:21 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US 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 try for the Ferruginous Hawk found earlier by Bill Bousman. Unfortunately the further south of the Hwy 85/101 interconnect we got the foggier it got. We slowly drove several of the roads northeast of Gilroy (near New Ave and Rucker Ave) but found only a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (also one unidentified hawk, visibility was perhaps a hundred yards). We then stopped at the Coyote Creek Golf Course where we got a couple year birds for Frank (PACIFIC LOON & two female GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES). Next stop was Lake Cunningham Park where we looked for but did not find the Lesser Black-backed Gull, essentially all of the Gulls on the lake were CALIFORNIA GULLS with a few RING-BILLED GULLS on the edges of the lake. We also had twelve AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, a SAY'S PHOEBE, a GREEN HERON and two "CACKLING GEESE" (smallest form of the CANADA GOOSE) on the hill just north of the smaller island. (Both of these geese had broken chin straps, that is a black line under the chin dividing the white chin strap in half. I find no written references to this marking in any of my books but if one looks carefully this line can be seen in a photograph in Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America and (not so well) in the Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding. Most drawings in other books tend to use a dark line to separate this area of the chin on ALL Canada Geese from the white background and as such are confusing when showing this marking. Both of the small form geese had dark brownish chests with one of the birds having a thin white neck-ring at the front that narrowed to nothing half way back along the side of the neck. The standing bird in the Sibley Guide to Birds has a fairly good representation of the bird with the neck-ring. Note that the swimming bird on the same page has no dark line under the chin.) Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:02 PM, 1/23/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]