From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jul 29 16:34:04 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6TNVoFg012237 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx3.znet.com (mx3.znet.com [207.167.64.7]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6TNV8kK012198 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.167.82.129] (okts03-129.znet.net [207.167.82.129]) by mx3.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-mx1) with ESMTP id h6TNV5ka028643 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:33 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] White-faced Ibis X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ 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]] Hi Folks, At 10:55 a.m. today, 2 WHITE_FACED IBIS landed in the CCFS waterbird pond. They preened for 2 or 3 minutes and then took off, flying over the fence in the general direction of A18. I returned to scrutinizing a lone LESSER YELLOWLEGS and at 11:05 the 2 Ibis returned, landing close by. I was able to watch them preen and forage until noon when they departed, again in the general direction of A18. One Ibis is very noticeably larger than the other. They have reddish eyes, and generally appeared like the nonbreeding adult in Sibley. I also saw these 2 Ibis Monday morning (10a.m.), at the pond, for a few brief seconds. Two data points does not make a trend but..... Also of interest at the waterbird pond earlier this morning was a juvi PEREGRINE FALCON. It was out on an island of exposed bottom plucking and eating fresh kill, an Avocet. A Red-tailed Hawk flew over flushing numerous birds, and the Peregrine. The Peregrine carried it's kill off but soon dropped it in the water. As the Red Tail cleared the area birds started returning to the pond. The Peregrine returned, surveying it's kill, and finally swooped down snatching it out of the water. He returned to the exposed ground and continued feeding until flushing again without finishing the meal. With in a couple of minutes a juvi Turkey Vulture landed next to the kill and then some adults to polish up the poor little Avocet carcass. July 29, 2003 Dean Manley _______________________________________________ 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]]