From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Sep 20 13:37:22 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8KKZWID017424 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8KKY0ZP017386 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from KrisDesktop (adsl-64-169-18-243.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.18.243]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h8KKXxOr006161 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:33:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]> To: "South Bay Birders" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:36:00 -0700 Message-ID: <0b5701c37fb6$cd8840a0$6401a8c0@KrisDesktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h8KKY0ZP017386 Subject: [SBB] Alviso: Bank Swallow & Am. Golden Plover 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]] Hello all, Today I arrived simultaneously with Bob Reiling at the EEC to search for the Golden Plover. As we arrived, another birder left and told us where to find the bird: walk north on the RR tracks until the big pond on the left, just after you pass a straight slough. The pond is the penultimate pond before the RR intersection. And sure enough, there on the first island, was the Golden Plover, which we take to be an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, as previously reported by Bill Bousman. The bird has a strong, light, bright supercillium, tanish face with a dark auricular mark. Its upper back is a mixture of black and "gold" -- but definitely darker than the Pacific Golden Plovers I saw last year. It has just a few spots of black under its belly and one or two under its tail (when it conveniently tipped forward while turned away from us.) Its wingtips project quite far over the tail and appear plain and dark. Bob's more powerful scope saw 3-4 feathers past the barred tail. Its breast seemed mainly softly colored to me, not spotted, and its belly was plain white (except for the occasional spot of black/gray). There were two nearby BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, and I had never noticed before how streaked their bellies are. The bird seemed like it wanted to regurgitate something as it kept lurching its head forward and opening its mouth, but other times it rested or chased away intruding Dowitchers. Near this plovers were 7 SEMIPLATED PLOVERS and, of course, Killdeer. On our walk back, we saw a SPOTTED TOWHEE in the Pickleweed -- what is it doing there? -- as well as a WILSON'S SNIPE and the STILT SANDPIPER, refound by Bob in the first pond on the right (as you walk in from the EEC entrance road.) Since I had seen hundreds of Barn Swallows on the dry impoundment area two days ago, Bob encouraged me to go to the Alviso Marina area in search of Bank Swallows -- which I did (while he went to EEC and found another great bird that he will report later!) At first I just saw Barn Swallows on all the telephone wires, but finally I found 1 CLIFF SWALLOW (very mottely) and 1 BANK SWALLOW! Just after they were flushed, Bob arrived and we found 2 TREE SWALLOWS. He was still scanning the lines as I left. Good birding, Kris Olson Menlo Park, 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]]