From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Aug 9 10:36:01 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i79HXQOQ029831 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.stanford.edu [171.67.16.125]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i79HWYMR029791 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lawmail1.stanford.edu (lawmail1.Stanford.EDU [171.64.212.80]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i79HWXIM019101 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:32:33 -0700 To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0 September 26, 2002 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:32:31 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on lawmail1/stanford(Release 5.0.12 |February 13, 2003) at 08/09/2004 10:32:33 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Least Stiltpiper? 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]] Yesterday I took a bunch of shorebird pix at CCFS shorebird pond and at EEC, and had some puzzlements. One was a bird I saw along the rocks lining A-16 where the path comes out from the EEC. These are usually all Least Sandpipers, and so is this one -- or so I think. At first, it seemed like an unfamiliar bird, so I snapped a bunch of pictures. As I looked more closely, everything except the jizz seemed to mark it as an adult Least. Plumage, bill shape, that distinctive greenish leg color. What had thrown me off at first was its posture -- standing tall. That made me think at first it was a larger bird, but on second thought, it was just more upright. It maintained this posture throughout -- and I have several more pictures showing it. Isn't a Least Sandpiper a little hunched-over no-neck mouse of a bird? (All my other pictures say so.) Is there a Least Sandpiper Pride movement abrewing? Or am I wrong about the i.d. and it's really something else? (yes I did think about the Stilt Sandpiper possibility, but that doesn't fit.) Or is this a posture I've just missed up to now? http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/LeastStiltpiper.jpg http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/LeastStiltpiper2.jpg More puzzlement-pix follow. Tom Grey http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41 _______________________________________________ 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]]