From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Oct 5 19:04:21 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9621sID025881 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (smtp1.stanford.edu [171.64.14.23]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9620kZP025842 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from match.stanford.EDU (match.Stanford.EDU [171.64.38.65]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9620gec018939; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bump@localhost) by match.stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h960sJq02243; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:54:19 -0700 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:54:19 -0700 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> From: Daniel Bump <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Cc: [[email protected]], [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Sharp Tailed Sandpiper at Palo Alto Baylands 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]] Today shortly before 4 PM we saw a SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER with two PECTORALS at the Palo Alto Baylands. The location was in the channel opposite the ranger station a bit down the road towards the bay. They were wading in the channel at the edge of the mud. Unfortunately they were on the close side of the channel where the bank is rather steep and we only watched them about two or three minutes before they had walked to a point from which they could not be seen. By walking around we eventually were able to see the whole channel but couldn't refind them. Compared with its two companions, the bird was very bright reddish buff, the breast washed with this color and streaked but not heavily streaked. There was a strong white supercilium and contrasting dark rusty crown. Apart from the differences in coloration the three birds were about the same size and shape, the typical shape of a Pectoral Sandpiper. I have seen this species exactly once before, Pectoral many times. With few peeps around these were about the smallest shorebirds present. Other shorebirds present included good numbers of Black Bellied Plovers and a few Whimbrels among the many Long-Billed Curlews, Marbled Godwits, etc. Daniel Bump _______________________________________________ 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]]