From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Aug 22 00:12:49 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7M7B5GU005708 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7M79eDB005666 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-2ivfi4b.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.200.139]) by albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BymTz-00048X-00 for [[email protected]]; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:09:39 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: SBB <[[email protected]]> From: Matthew Dodder <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:11:56 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) Subject: [SBB] Alviso 08-21-04 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]] All, Today, Cricket and I biked from the Alviso marina around the various ponds in a counter-clockwise fashion, finding a few birds of note. A single BLACK TURNSTONE foraged on the east edge of pond A13. The bird's legs were quite brightly orange, but the patterning on the head and neck was 100% BLTU. Numerous RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were also on the north edge of A14 as well as a large and CLARKS, about 30 PIED-BILLED and six EARED. The latter of which still had obvious dark necks and golden ear tufts. A single BROWN PELICAN and a CASPIAN TERN flew over the levy between A10 and A11. Overall, CALIFORNIA GULLS dominated, but a few RING-BILLED and good numbers of WESTERN GULLS were seen as well. FORSTER'S TERNS were found in all areas. An enormous group of MARBLED GODWITS, several hundred strong, flew from the Coyote Creek Slough to the ponds on the north side of our tour and mixed in were a few LONG-BILLED CURLEW. At one point we thought we heard the sound of Black Skimmers in the vicinity of A14, but we were not able to locate the birds by sight. Perhaps the sound was carried in on the wind from much farther away. Matthew Dodder http://www.birdguy.net _______________________________________________ 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]]