From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Nov 11 15:21:17 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hABNI96W024576 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hABNHAMU024525 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:17:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id t.19d.1ce30852 (3940) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:16:27 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:16:27 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] White-winged Scoter, Shoreline Lake 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]] All, At about 9:30 this morning Frank Vanslager and I had a first winter female WHITE-WINGED SCOTER in Shoreline Lake. We watched the bird for 30-40 minutes as it swam and preened in the north western half of the lake. Unfortunately we were unable to refind the bird 45 to 50 minutes later despite considerable effort. The bird was initially spotted because of it's lighter overall coloring, it's extensive white lores and white auricular spot that tended to form a straight line from the bill that was broken only at the eye. The amount of white visible on the wing varied from slight [almost looking like white fuzz] when the wing was well folded to a fairly large patch when the wing was freshly folded. On several occasions [3-4 times] we were able to see the all white secondaries as the bird preened. The bill was black with silver highlights and appeared quite short as a result feathers extending well forward on the upper mandible. The WWSC was occasionally near SURF SCOTERS but seemed to prefer the company of Goldeneye and was often by itself. Frank and I also saw the female BARROWS GOLDENEYE recently found and well described by Mike Rogers as well as the White-headed "Ruddy Duck" found by Roland Kenner. I've seen no discussion of this duck but I assume, with all that it entails, that we do not believe it to be a White-headed Duck of the Mediterranean and Western Asia but rather a partially leucistic Ruddy Duck? A final comment, while birding today we talked to a lady from England who described a Palm Warbler that she had seen on Monday a short distance beyond the pump house on the dike between Charleston Slough and Adobe Creek [I believe that's at least three sightings of PAWA in this area in the last week or so]. Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ 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]]