From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Nov 13 00:06:02 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAD83Xow001262 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:03:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAD82eg8001220 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38ldtq1.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.247.65] helo=birdnutz.com) by goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AKCR2-0001t9-00; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:02:37 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:06:29 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Cc: Monterey Bay Birds list <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Hollister Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 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]] The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck returned to the Ridgemark Golf Course in Hollister yesterday. This is the bird that was reported back on Oct. 16th. This afternoon, I got a call from Caroline Nabeta informing me that the bird was still present. I drove down to get some photographs and to see if I could detect any features that would say, one way or the other, if this bird was an escapee/release from a captive stock. The bird was sleeping at the edge of a pond in the middle of one of the courses, not where it was originally seen. I don't think this area is accessible without having a resident escort or playing a round of golf. In any case, the bird didn't act like it was comfortable with my slowly moving closer to it. Mich Ninokata said that it approached his golfing group along with the other ducks, seemingly expecting a food handout. There are residents who regularly feed the waterfowl. I posted some of the photos at . Follow the links to the rarities page where there's a link to this duck and see what I found. It's a very handsome duck. Les Chibana, Palo Alto _______________________________________________ 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]]