From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jan 28 09:18:39 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0SHG24p010882 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:16:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sametime.stanford.edu (sametime.stanford.edu [171.64.210.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0SHFKSE010842 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:15:20 -0800 (PST) To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.4 June 8, 2000 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:16:01 -0800 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on sametime/stanford(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 01/28/2003 09:16:02 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Stanford, Western Screech and Merlin 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]] I was up early this morning, and from outside my house on the back of the Stanford campus around 5 a.m. I heard a WESTERN SCREECH-OWL -- only the second time I've heard this bird from my yard. Sunday a MERLIN paid a visit to our yard -- I got some pictures, one of which is on the page at http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/birdslocal4.html >From that picture, this bird looks so heavily spotted on the chest that it could be of the race suckleyi, and perhaps could be a female. However I had a brief look at the bird's back when it was flying away, and it appeared bluish-gray, so I think it's a male. I also vaguely recall a discussion in which some of our local mavens said that suckleyi is rare here, that most of our Merlins are columbarius, and that some columbarius are heavily spotted -- so this is probably that race. In fact I'm guessing it is probably Merlie, Kendric Smith's resident winter guest. Tom Grey [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ 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]]