From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Oct 31 15:22:27 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9VNIw6W025916 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m07.mx.aol.com (imo-m07.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.162]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9VNHuMU025875 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:17:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id t.19c.1c127cbe (18251) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:17:47 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:17:47 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6024 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] County birding and Eurasian wigeons 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, This morning Frank Vanslager and I first tried out the bay north of the Palo Alto Yacht Harbor entrance hoping that the weather had pushed a "goodie" into Santa Clara County. Unfortunately the wind at that point was coming from out of the southeast and bay itself looked deserted. Shorebirds included WHIMBREL, LONG-BILLED CURLEW, MARBLED GODWIT, a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and DUNLIN. Notable passerines included a RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and several YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS [mostly Audubon's but with at least one Myrtle]. A juvenile COOPER'S HAWK was in a Eucalyptus tree behind the ranger residence. We then decided to redo the "West" Sunnyvale Water Treatment Facility pond. Today we had 30-40 CANVASBACKS, 7-8 REDHEAD [four males], 4-7 Scaup [mostly if not all LESSER] and two possibly three male EURASIAN WIGEON [all with some degree of eclipse plumage]. The first EUWI found is the "Iffy" bird, it had a nice body [grayish sides and upper body and a pinkish chest/lower neck ], the head was a very lightly marked red overall with the lightly marked green sweeping eyepatch but had almost no color on the forehead. In this case it would seem that head molt is way behind the body molt if this is not a hybrid. On the second bird the sides and upper body were a pinkish-gray, it had a pinkish chest and lower neck, the head was an overall reddish color with a lightly marked green eyepatch and a nice golden forehead and upper crown. The third bird was most likely the bird seen on Tuesday [10/28] except that the forehead and upper crown seemed more golden colored than I remembered [the body was a pinkish-gray with a fairly bright reddish-brown marking on the upper flanks, nice pink chest and lower neck, and a nice bright reddish head with a very light greenish eyepatch that was visible only under certain side lighting conditions. No Tufted Duck: :-( and no spinning, feeding rafts of Northern Shovelers [lots of NOSH though]. 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]]