From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Sep 7 22:43:36 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h885fiIE025775 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt29.cluster1.charter.net (remt29.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.39]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h885dMZP025705 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.189.141.10] (HELO D7S1NG11) by remt29.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with SMTP id 137872231 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 01:39:04 -0400 Message-ID: <001b01c375cb$84e9edc0$6501a8c0@D7S1NG11> From: "Anne Spence" <[[email protected]]> To: "SoutBayBirds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:39:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] HUDSONIAN GODWITS 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h885fiIE025775 9-7-3 10pm Nuts! Just got home from a long afternoon looking for the HUDSONIAN GODWITS that I did not locate. I arrived at 2pm & left at 4:30 pm and did not see anything bigger than a DOWITCHER. NO Marbleds. No STILT SANDPIPER. No Ruff etc. I was out last Tue with the same bad luck. However, I did find several hundred DUCKS on the far shores of the pond that is between the ECC & the railroad tracks. They were all in various stages of plumage. My first opinions at the distance & the wind shaking my tripod/scope, was that they were all CANVASBACKS but then I thought they may have been CINNAMON TEAL because of how many there were. I'm still learning my ducks, especially at this distance, so if anyone can let me know the confirmation I'd appreciate it. There are not too many ducks that we get locally that have that bright red eye, and a very large Shoveler type beaks. The Undertail coverts, uppertail coverts & possibly the tips of the primaries is what threw me. They were all solid black which indicated a CINNAMON TEAL, BLUE-WINGED TEAL or CANVASBACK. Being that most ducks should be coming into wintering plumage I got kinda lost with all the non-descriptive coloring. Looking at Sibley's I got confused to tell if the just mentioned ducks should have bright black rear-ends as males in non-breeding plumage? None had other distinguishing marks: Blue-winged would have had a white crescent at the base of the bill, these did not. They were not Green-winged Teal, not Shovelers, not American Wigeon, not Pintail and not Gadwall. Help! And...along the RxR tracks between the ECC entrance road and the chain-link boarded fence line to the edge of the road where the RxR signal arms are I located my first season young male WESTERN MEADOWLARK. I was hunting for digiscope pictures of a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE I had just seen on the fence-line when I did so noisy pishing and the Meadowlark jumped onto the fence from the dump side. Got some neat pictures of a Turkey Vulture, finally! http://community.webshots.com/user/antilleanmango check the "new" or first album. Bye, PS: Did you all hear about the REDDISH EGRET down in San Luis Obispo County? I'm trying to set up a day trip for myself if anyone is interested in going along. Anne Spence Watsonville, CA _______________________________________________ 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]]