From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Aug 19 18:38:58 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7K1cVGR016940 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40105.mail.yahoo.com (web40105.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.39]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i7K1YsDB016859 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from [207.46.125.16] by web40105.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:34:49 PDT Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:34:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Olson <[[email protected]]> To: SouthBay Birds <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Pacific Golden Plover at State& Spreckles in Alviso 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 birders: I just left Chris Wolf (last name?), Dean Manley, Dave Weber, Mike Rogers and Dave (forgot the last name) watching several good birds at the State & Spreckles marsh. There is a Pacific Golden Plover almost in full alternate plumage on a island close to the road. On another front island to the right of the plover is the STilt Sandpiper with lots of barring underneath still. Two Ruffs are to their left. The female was quite aggressively knocking phalaropes out of her way today. The male was in the far back left, wading in the water to feed. Their legs are quite orange and their backs seems brown/buffy to me-- not gray/black like Yellowlegs or brown/rust like dowitchers. The Plover had intially been spotted by Chris when Dean Manley and I arrived at roughly the same time -- 4:40-ish. (AT least I think this is the correct order.) We phoned Mike Rogers to ask him to help ID the bird-- which golden plover? He arrived and pointed out many field marks that make it a Pacific: lots of white on the sides with almost solid black still on the belly (so it has not molted), primary projection short over the tail and not many primaries show past the tertials, IF I remember all this correctly, which is doubtful! good birding, Kris Olson, Menlo Park ===== Kristen Olson [[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]]