From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Aug 10 16:24:12 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7ANM8OQ027632 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:22:08 -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 i7ANKwMR027587 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:20:58 -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 i7ANKvaV021332 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:20:57 -0700 To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0 September 26, 2002 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:14:16 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on lawmail1/stanford(Release 5.0.12 |February 13, 2003) at 08/10/2004 04:20:57 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] puzzlement #3 -- breeding plumage dowitchers 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 last Sunday's outing was motivated first and foremost by wanting to get a good photo of a breeding plumage Long-billed Dowitcher, which I don't have on my site. When I read Mike Mammoser's report that there were lots of them at the CCFS pond I headed there. Indeed there were lots of them. There were also Short-bills present: tu-tu-tu was heard in the land. So it was a classic mixed bag, with chances for i.d. mistakes galore. Also hard to get close enough to any of them for good pix. As it turned out, I never got any really clear pix, but a few ok ones. None of them were of birds I could individually i.d. by call, so i.d. of these must be visual. I've never been very confident of my ability to i.d. breeding plumage dowitchers by sight, except in extreme cases == for instance in the spring when the barring, or the spotting, on the side of the breast is clear and extensive. Or where there's a big obvious white expanse on the underparts. So here are the six halfway decent (none really good) pix of dowitchers I was able to get. I did my dowitcher reading, and I've put my notes and tentative i.d.s alongside the pix -- would love any corrective comments anyone might have the time to offer. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/Pages/LongbilledDowitcherp.html 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]]