From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Sep 22 14:44:58 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8MLcgIC001800 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from highstream.net (mail.highstream.net [65.214.41.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8MLbDZP001709 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from denhpa200y [65.142.46.177] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-8.02) id AB6A902027A; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:36:42 -0400 Message-ID: <027801c38151$addf4310$56448841@denhpa200y> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> To: "south bay birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:12:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Note: This E-mail was scanned for spam. Subject: [SBB] Alviso: 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]] This morning, a little before 10:00 a.m., I saw a/the GOLDEN-PLOVER in the usual place: last large pond before the junction on the left walking out the railroad tracks from the EEC entrance road. It started out on the first long, thin island, moved to the mass of pickleweed and small islands in the middle of the pond, and finally, about 10:15, flew off to near the main line railroad tracks about half way to the SE corner of A12, that is, a long way. My impressions of the bird match earlier reports, and in keeping with Bill Bousman's analysis, I take it to be an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER. In case a report from another set of eyes might help, here is what I saw. To start with I had good broadside views facing left, both sitting and standing. Counting the outermost primary as 1, the bird showed four primary edges, 1-2 close together, 2-3 and 3-4 equally spaced and much further apart. The tail ended between 3 and 4, just inside 3; the tertials ended midway between 4 and 5. The bird was not symmetric in this respect. On the bird's right side, one tertial seemed distinctly longer than all the others and ended between primaries 3 and 4. The supercilium was buffy rather than white, the lower face slightly darker than the supercilium in color except for a prominent, dark auricular spot. Remaining black breast feathers on otherwise white undersides are obvious in front and side (standing) views. The first black is just below the lower edge of the wash on the upper breast. Towards the legs, there is nearly as much black as white. An irregular, fading line of black continues between the legs and perhaps half way to the tail. The coloration in good light showed some gold, but never as much as basic-plumaged Pacific Golden-Plovers seen on the bay last winter. In worse light there wasn't much gold; the impression was brown not, gray and white. On the walk out the tracks, I saw the STILT SANDPIPER in back of the first pond on the right. There were at least two SNOWY PLOVERs on the edges and islands of the Golden-Plover's pond. Roland _______________________________________________ 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]]