From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Aug 1 15:17:38 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i71MFHOQ020692 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [63.70.210.59]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i71ME1MR020652 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (MMS v5.6.0)); Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:13:42 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 011F2A72-58F1-4BCE-832F-B0D661E896E8 Received: from mail-sj1-1.sj.broadcom.com (mail-sj1-1.sj.broadcom.com [10.16.128.231]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA16812 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15: 13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PCSJCWMJM (dhcpe3-sj3-165 [10.21.81.165]) by mail-sj1-1.sj.broadcom.com (8.12.9/8.12.4/SSM) with ESMTP id i71MDd08003573 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:13:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:12:27 -0700 Message-ID: <047301c47814$a1928670$[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-WSS-ID: 6D13B49E15C2980290-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i71ME1MR020652 Subject: [SBB] : X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 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]] Sorry about the cutoff previous message. Here it is in its entirety. On Sunday, 1 Aug 04, I revisited the EEC in Alviso. Mike Danzenbaker was busy photographing phalaropes along the entrance road and told me that I had just missed the Baird's Sandpiper. Bill Bousman was walking out the entrance road and told me he had no luck with Semipalmated Sandpipers from the boardwalk. With that, I joined Dean Manley on the boardwalk and was disappointed that there were far fewer birds than yesterday and only a small number of WESTERN SANDPIPERS. As expected, I found nothing unusual in with them when I scanned through. So Dean and I walked out the levee, checking the marsh and salt pond as we went. The numbers of RED-NECKED PHALAROPES seemed to have blossomed, with about 600 on the salt pond and others scattered about the marsh. The pair of BLACK SKIMMERS on the third island are still watching over their chick, while a pair on the fourth island may be incubating eggs (the bird lying on the ground never rose to show me anything). The fourth island also had one of the RUDDY TURNSTONES, which was cooperative only some of the time, otherwise staying out of sight on the far side of the island. Also of interest was a precocial young FORSTER'S TERN on a nest in the northwest corner of New Chicago Marsh. I've seen adults sitting in incubating positions in the marsh before, but this is the first time I've confirmed them as nesting there. I also found an adult female RUFF in this area of the marsh, which Dean and I watched for some time before it disappeared (when we weren't looking). It was well-patterned above, with much buff barring in the tertials and scapulars (possibly wing coverts too?). There was a brownish-gray wash high on the breast, much like basic plumage, but still a few dark mottled spots on the sides of the breast that may have been alternate feathers. It had bright orange legs. The head and neck was basic. The bill looked completely dark, but it was hard to be sure from the distance we were watching. After an hour and 45 minutes we headed back to the boardwalk to scan peeps again. My expectations weren't very high when I saw that there were fewer birds than before. However, I was pleasantly surprised when my scan fell upon 2 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS on a small pickleweed island just off the boardwalk. Soon, Roland Kenner and Pat Kenny came by, followed closely by Dave Weber, and we all shared scope-filling views of these birds. Meanwhile, Pat pointed out that there was a bird there sitting well down in the pickleweed with only part of its head showing. When it stood up, it proved to be a third SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. We had long and satisfying looks at all these birds, with direct comparisons to juvenile WESTERNS standing right next to them and references to field guides and discussions of field marks. Quite a nice exercise. I then went to the Sunnyvale sewage ponds, where I had 3 juvenile GREEN HERONS, flighted but still with some natal down on their heads, right along the creek at the end of the parking lot. A little ways down the creek by the pump house I flushed an adult, while a second adult was in the channel at the base of the pump house. I had 22 BROWN PELICANS over the ponds and a couple CASPIAN TERNS in with the FORSTER'S. Not much else happening here. Mike Mammoser _______________________________________________ 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]]