From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Aug 30 14:35:14 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7ULWNGT012762 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail07b.vwh1.net (mail07b.vwh1.net [131.103.218.112]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i7ULVXDB012714 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.180.140) by mail07b.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.94vs) with SMTP id 0-0958591490 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:31:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00f401c48ed4$1a4ecf80$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:58:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Grasshopper Sparrow 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i7ULWNGT012762 This morning at 10AM I had a lone, very cooperative adult Grasshopper Sparrow in otherwise quiet conditions at the small unnamed pond just below Monte Bello Preserve's Gate 5 (which is directly across the street from the Page Mill Rd. terminus of the closed section of Alpine Rd., about 1/2 mile east of Skyline Blvd.) At first I took it for a Savannah because at such short range the orange-buffy loral patch was visually prominent (it popped up from underfoot beside the pond and sat on top of a coyote bush at about 10 feet). But I then noted the complete lack of streaking below, its tiny tail, and the absence of a bold "whisker stripe" (The cheek pattern also lacked the dark lower border which parallels the whisker on Savannah). Perhaps this individual is a holdover from the breeding season; several were found earlier this season just a quarter-mile away on the upper White Oaks trail. On the San Mateo County side of Skyline, I stopped briefly about 9:30AM to inspect some of the approximately 1,200 Violet-green Swallows which are staging on the telephone wires at several points along Alpine Rd. I didn't see any other swallow species during my brief inspection (the flocks which form there are often quite pure.) A single Lark Sparrow was on the ground at the base of the cattle chute 2.5 miles west of Skyline. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]