From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Aug 2 10:15:57 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i72HDbOP006950 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i72HC3MR006868 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-38ldvv7.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.255.231] helo=default) by smtp6.mindspring.com with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BrgLw-0007Kt-00; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:12:01 -0400 Message-ID: <000901c478b4$29e2eac0$e7ff56d1@default> From: "JOHN B. HUTZ" <[[email protected]]> To: "Bill Bousman" <[[email protected]]> References: <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] Chilean Flamingo Remains Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:14:20 -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 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Cc: birdlist <[[email protected]]> 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]] My apolgies! The birds were semipalmated plovers. Wishful thinking I guess. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Bousman" <[[email protected]]> To: "JOHN B. HUTZ" <[[email protected]]> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [SBB] Chilean Flamingo Remains > Dear John, > > How did you distinguish the 20 Semipalmated Sandpipers that you > tallied. There are some of us who consider this a very difficult > identification problem (as compared to Westerns, which are 10,000 times > more likely). A maximum or 3 or 4 is probably the record for Santa Clara > County, so your observation requires some support. > > Bill > > At 06:53 PM 8/1/04, you wrote: > >This afternoon about 1:00 I found the Flamingo about 200 yds. from the > >dredge "Mallard" at the northern extreme of pond A14 at Alviso. It was > >along the levee going southwest from the dredge. It stayed close to the > >levee most of the time I observed it but finally moved out to open water > >to the exposed bottom of the pond. I believed it was walking but it > >appeared to be swiming in the manner of a swan. It certainly is a striking > >appearing bird. > >I made my way over the dredged material to about 200 ft. from it which > >gave me scope filling views. > > > >In addition to the flamingo there was a very large number of shorebirds at > >the very northern end of A14 on the exposed bottom of the pond: 50 LONG > >BILLED-CURLEWS, 50 WILLETS 20 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS,150 MARBLED GODWITS, > >300 AVOCETS, 50 SANPIPERS (Least or Western), 4 DUNLIN, 300 DOWITCHERS > >(SP.) AND 20 STILTS. I actually counted the Curlews. > > John > >_______________________________________________ > >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/barlowi%40earth link.net > > > >This email sent to [[email protected]] > _______________________________________________ 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]]