From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jul 31 09:02:46 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6VG0OFg016487 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp6.Stanford.EDU (smtp6.stanford.edu [171.67.16.33]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6VFx5kK016443 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by smtp6.Stanford.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6VFx5mi029835 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sametime.stanford.edu (sametime.Stanford.EDU [171.64.210.62]) by smtp6.Stanford.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6VFx3pC029830 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:59:04 -0700 (PDT) To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.4 June 8, 2000 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:00:09 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on sametime/stanford(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 07/31/2003 09:00:24 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Palo Alto Baylands puzzlers, 7-30 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]] At Palo Alto Baylands last evening 6-7 the light was good and some migrating birds ventured close enough to the footpath by the boathouse for me to get a few decent digiscopes -- issues with three of them. 1. OK, I'm an immature-gull dummy, but what the heck is this? http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/GullQuery.jpg My best guess is, juvenile Ring-billed Gull already molting to first-winter -- those adult-like gray scapulars. Is this extremely early for that molt? My other thought was that it could be a California, maybe molting toward second winter? But the head-shape looks more Ring-billied-ish to me, and isn't that too much dark smudging on the face and front for a year-old California? In fact there's more dark on the head than I can find on any pictures of molting juvenile Ring-billed. Anyway, enlightenment welcome. 2. Here's a Long-billed Curlew. Can I say for sure adult (in which case probably male, the shortish bill)? I think the coverts are barred, which I read in Paulson is diagnostic of adult plumage. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/LongbilledCurlew3.jpg 3. Here's a Semipalmated Plover. Can I say for sure it's a male, on the basis of the strongly black markings? http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/SemipalmatedPlover2.jpg Tom Grey [[email protected]] www.geocities.com/tgrey41/index.html _______________________________________________ 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]]