From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Aug 8 20:21:28 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i793JAOY018648 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from la.znet.com (la.znet.com [207.167.96.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i793HXMR018604 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [69.19.246.189] (host-69-19-246-189.rev.o1.com [69.19.246.189]) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id i793HTdk026961 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:17:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:19:19 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Ruffs 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 SBBers, Today, early afternoon, there was a male and female RUFF on an island in the northerly end of the Spreckles St. pond (New Chicago Marsh, Alviso). The male was distinctly large and seemed even bulkier than the nearby Greater Yellowlegs. He seemed quite devoid of the alternate plumage characteristics of the previously reported partial alt. male Ruff found by Al Eisner. Al joined me at Spreckles and he may have a report. The smaller female's breast/belly was clear of blackish blotches/spots. I couldn't pick up details well although the female's tertials had blackish and buffy barring. Presumeably these Ruffs are the continuing birds that have been seen for awhile but I sure can't tell by looking at this point in time. The male was exhibiting a little behavior. The island was crowded with shorebirds and the male chased two or three birds out of his zone. Then he would assume a certain stiff posture and prance along for a few feet, stop, relax and then repeat the routine in the opposite direction. The last movement was toward the female and he stopped about three feet away from her. He then assumed a horizontal stance, neck stretched out, with the tip of his verticle bill touching the ground. He held this stance for about 15-20 seconds and then the display was over. Dean Manley _______________________________________________ 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]]