From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Sep 6 20:32:41 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h873V0ID005054 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h873T2ZP005005 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-38lc0ss.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.3.156] helo=birdnutz.com) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19vqEX-0000VB-00 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:29:02 -0700 Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:31:46 -0700 Subject: Re: [SBB] Hudsonian Godwits, Black and Common Terns Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) 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]] Jean, Looks like you got some digiscoped images of the two Hudsonian Godwits! It's nice to know that they're still around. Up until now, I had only seen evidence on one at Alviso. Good job! If you're not on Calbirds, I'd like to forward your note to that list since there are birders from out of the area who'd like to know that they are still there. They haven't been reported since 9/1. Les Chibana, Palo Alto On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 04:59 PM, [[email protected]] wrote: > Hi: > Today, after having been on vacation for over a week, I took my > chances and > went looking for the HUDSONIAN GODWITS and other birds that had been > spotted > in the not too recent past. My hopes were not high. I arrived at the > Marsh > next to State and Spreckles in Alviso at 7:10am and walked down the > railroad > tracks with photos from the web in my knapsack. After about 20-30 > minutes, I > found a group of Dowitchers on the pond on the left (approx. across > the street > from the left/exit gate of the landscaping company on State. At first > nothing > seemed out of the ordinary, until they turned around and two of them > had black > tails! I moved around a bit and could see the pinkish base of their > beaks and > then, when they stepped up next to the Dowitchers, their large size > became > apparent. Their chests were tanish with no apparent streaking or > spotting. > Their legs were black. I hiked out on the mud to get better pictures > and the > best angle. Pictures are on my photo site which can be accessed at > the end of > this message. snip > Great birding! > Jean Myers > My bird photos web site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/birdermom > P.S. If you are the person who asked to see the photos of the RUFF, > they are > on my photo site as well - my computer guy erased your message and I > couldn't > send them to you... > P.P.S. If these are not Hudsonian Godwits, please have mercy on me, > I'm not > an advanced birder! Also, I'm not a photographer, as the quality of > my photos > clearly indicates. _______________________________________________ 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]]