From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Oct 13 21:06:56 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9E43XI5000545 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (sea2-f33.sea2.hotmail.com [207.68.165.33]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9E41iZP000454 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:01:44 -0700 Received: from 66.92.4.101 by sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:01:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.92.4.101] X-Originating-Email: [[[email protected]]] From: "russell sheehan" <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:01:43 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2003 04:01:44.0540 (UTC) FILETIME=[E1B0E9C0:01C39207] Cc: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Rufous Backed Robin - closure 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 wanted to provide some closure on my sighting of the Rufous Backed Robin at Elkhorn Slough. I really was only trying to make others aware of the birds presence and was not intending to enter into a justifying exercise or initiate a debate on how one should and should not report such findings. I was with my cousin when we viewed the bird(he being a fanatical international birder with Spain, Costa Rica, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Thailand and Eastern USA under his belt)and we were positively ecstatic as it was at the end of a long(we had been on a whale cruise) and tiring day. The distinguishing feature of the bird that proved beyond our own doubt that it was a Rufous-Backed Robin was its rufous(brown/orange mix) colour that extended down its chest and over its mantle. The bird also had a dark grey coloured head. Beak was yellow, eye was black. Other than that he was very similar to the American Robin from a size, stance and tail shape perspective. One quirk to leave the more serious birders puzzling was with the Robins chin/upper throat which consistant with its recorded appearance was white with black streaks but oddily had a curious ruffling of the feathers which gave the bird a 'goatie' like appearance. We remain delighted with the sighting but am not concerned about getting it recorded. The best we would have liked to have achieved was to have somebody else in the area travel to the slough and make a positive sighting themselves. Russ Sheehan _________________________________________________________________ Never get a busy signal because you are always connected with high-speed Internet access. Click here to comparison-shop providers. https://broadband.msn.com _______________________________________________ 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]]