From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Dec 1 15:07:22 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB1N57jn023966 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com (imo-m21.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.2]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB1N3AVC023904 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:03:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id t.1e9.30295daa (3980) for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:03:02 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:03:02 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5034 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] RTLO and COLO at Colero Reservoir 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 iB1N57jn023966 All: Prior to the start of Alan Thomas’s Calero Reservoir trip this morning, December 1, I stopped (illegally) at the dam near the north end of the reservoir to do a quick scan for birds. I had a brief look at what I thought might be a Common Loon, but the lighting was so bad and the bird so uncooperative that I started looking around and immediately found an obvious Red-throated Loon in the north end of the reservoir. I had trouble deciding whether it was a juvenile or a winter adult, because I didn’t have any book and my memory of the important characteristics wasn’t all that good. Instead, I decided I was going to be late for the trip, so I left. At that point Ann Verdi was apparently on her way along the shore from the boat-launch ramp to tell me that she’d just seen a Common Loon! At the starting point of the trip (I registered 55 species; nothing special, but included American Pipits, Tri-colored Blackbirds, and a Spotted Sandpiper) Ann soon showed up and we exchanged loonacies. Since she had a cold that she didn’t want to spread, Ann left the trip and checked for the loons on her way home. With difficulty she saw both loons, and she thought that the RTLO was likely a winter adult. At the end of the trip I tried again but could refind neither loon. There was a powerboat making fast, noisy runs to both ends of the reservoir. Frank Vanslager _______________________________________________ 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]]