From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Jan 31 13:18:13 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0VLGB50014471 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0VLFWSE014431 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0399.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.144] helo=209.179.193.144) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18eiTk-00070O-00 for [[email protected]]; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:13:40 -0800 Date: 31 Jan 2003 13:13:44 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 2.1 (Mac) X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-Ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h0VLFWSE014431 Subject: [SBB] Euro teal at Stevens Crk & TM 1/30/03 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]] The Eurasian Green-winged Teal was in the Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh yesterday afternoon. I located it near the viewing platform along the Stevens Creek side of the impoundment. It had me circling the area in an attempt to get a better and closer view of it as the water drained out of this impoundment, leaving deep channels in the mud. I came across Roland Kenner and Pat Kenney and told them that I had located the bird and we went to the platform area. Roland spotted the bird in Stevens Creek just opposite the viewing platform. From here, I got my best views of it for the day. It preened and flapped and even dove (I guess it didn't want to be bound to its description as a dabbler). It was interesting that while engaged in these activities, the white horizontal marks on its folded wings would often disappear, apparently under the flank feathers. I don't know if the timing is regular, but it was in the tidal marsh mudflat area as the tide receded and ended up in the creek at around 3.15p, as it was getting close to low tide. The weak high tide at the Baylands revealed very few marsh birds. My morning trip group was not able to locate a Clapper Rail along the boardwalk. Les _______________________________________________ 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]]