From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Aug 20 07:11:08 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7KEA1GS027365 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web11202.mail.yahoo.com (web11202.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.184]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i7KE2TDB027212 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from [192.18.43.10] by web11202.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:02:29 PDT Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:02:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Christine Wolfe <[[email protected]]> Subject: Fwd: [SBB] Pacific Golden Plover at State& Spreckles in Alviso To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 - Dean Manley spotted the plover. Thanks Dean! Chris Wolfe --- Kris Olson <[[email protected]]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:34:49 -0700 (PDT) > From: Kris Olson <[[email protected]]> > To: SouthBay Birds <[[email protected]]> > Subject: [SBB] Pacific Golden Plover at State& > Spreckles in Alviso > > 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/cwolfe_9898%40yahoo.com > > This email sent to [[email protected]] > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush _______________________________________________ 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]]