From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Aug 2 18:04:57 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7311bOP013909 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7310jMR013866 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h-68-164-80-49.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.164.80.49] helo=ix.netcom.com) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BrnfY-0005BX-00 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:00:44 -0400 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:00:45 -0700 From: delphinus <[[email protected]]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [[email protected]] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Chilean Flamingo 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]] Hi! This morning around 8:15 I met up with Dean Manley at New Chicago Marsh. Dean had been watching the BAIRDS SANDPIPER in the channel just west of the railroad tracks, but it flew away when I arrived. Luckily I saw it last Friday ;-) . We continued looking along the channel for the Ruff with no luck. We did see both LESSER and GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the same time which was great for comparison. An AMERICAN KESTRAL was hunting nearby as well. We then walked out on the railroad tracks to try for the Ruff - no luck. Dean and I then decided to go out to A14 where we found the lone CHILEAN FLAMINGO. It is really a beautiful bird. This one has a band on the left leg above the red knee. We couldn't see any marks on the tag though. The tide was still high while we walked out there so there we not as many birds as we had hoped mostly BLACK-NECKED STILTS and AMERICAN AVOCETS. Luckily we puttered around looking for those Semipalmated Sandpipers long enough that the tide went out and by 1:00p A14 was teaming with birds. MARBLED GODWITS (500+++), DOWITCHERS, WILLETS, LONG-BILLED CURLEWS, LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPERS, may juveniles but we did not find and Semiplamateds in those thousands of sandpipers. SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS (100's), AMERICAN PELICANS, a few BROWN PELICANS, FORSTERS and CASPIAN TERNS, CORMORANTS including some young getting fed by their parents, BARN, CLIFF and VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, RED-NECKED and WILSONS PHALAROPES, SNOWY and GREAT EGRETS, GREAT BLUE HERON. WHITE-TAILED KITE and SONG SPARROWS in the marshand a river of Gulls along the Coyote Creek Slough (but I don't know my gulls yet). A TURKEY VULTURE was feeding on the levy on the way back and we got a good look at his face. It had a white band above the eyes and a white-tipped beak. Also, it had a red spot on its breast that looked like the red skin on his head. Dean's birdbook showed a similar red spot on the Condor, but neither my small Sibleys nor his book (forgot which one) showed the red spot on the TV. Does anyone know anything about this spot? We did see two BLACK_SKIMMERS on the 4 th island of A16 while we were walking out to A14. No Ruddy Turnstones though. Summer Brasuel _______________________________________________ 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]]