From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 24 10:03:39 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5OGxSGU014979 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from candela-inst.com (66-7-226-19.cust.telepacific.net [66.7.226.19]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5OGvm8b014927 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LauriePC (laurie-pc [192.168.129.116]) by candela-inst.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA05540 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:58:04 -0700 From: "Laurie Bechtler" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:56:16 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01c33a71$87627d00$[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] RE: south-bay-birds Digest, Vol 5, Issue 172 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]] I saw this gull, also on Sunday evening, between 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. It was loafing on the old dock in salt pond A1 close to the levee with the locked gate, along with Forster's terns. It stood out as being the only bird that was NOT a Forster's tern. However, I didn't have a bird book with me, as I was there only to count gull chicks for SFBBO and didn't have time for much else. When I got back to the car later, I looked at my Nat. Geographic guide and concluded it was a 1st year Bonaparte's -- but partly because I'm not that experienced with gulls and it didn't occur to me to consider anything unusual. Laurie Bechtler Mountain View > Hi SB Birders > After a day of birding around the bay area (under full sun) my powers of > perception were somewhat dimished by 5pm. But I finished at Shoreline, where there > may be a Franklin's Gull in the vicintiy of the tidal basin across from the > pumphouse, north of the San Antonio parking lot. The bird is an immature, > somewhere between 1st winter and 1st summer. It has the dark, but smudgy, crown, > nape, and side of head, enclosing a rather noticeable white eyering. The bill is > all black, between Laughing and Bonapartes in size. Underparts nearly all > white. The tails is white with a thin black terminal band. Inflight wing pattern > not like Bonapartes adult or imm. Actually not much of any pattern. Black > primaries with small amount of white. Legs were covered with mud. Most of the time > it was in the tidal basin along the levee, within 500 feet of the wooden > observation deck. It landed in Charleston Slough once.There was a 1st summer or > adult Bonapartes, acquiring the black hood, in the area. The last Franklins I > saw in CA was an imm at SVWPCP back in '95 or so and the Shoreline bird is a > good match of it. So if anyone at Shoreline sees such a bird please report it, > whether you think it's Franklins or not. > Thanks and good birding, > Dave Weber > Milpitas. _______________________________________________ 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]]