From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Dec 5 17:42:47 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB61eBlG017531 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav23.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.53]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB61d2YK017483 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:39:01 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from 4.182.0.51 by BAY4-DAV23.phx.gbl with DAV; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:38:02 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [4.182.0.51] X-Originating-Email: [[[email protected]]] X-Sender: [[email protected]] From: "LINDA ADAMS" <[[email protected]]> To: "south-bay-birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:38:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: MSN 9 Seal-Send-Time: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:38:00 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V9.10.0009.2900 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Dec 2004 01:39:01.0798 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CFB6C60:01C4DB34] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] So. Co. Tree Swallow 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 iB61eBlG017531 Hello SBBers, Since Friday, 3 December at 11am when I identified at least one Violet-green out of four foraging swallows at Coyote Lake County Park, I have had another opportunity to view some there. During the original sighting on Friday, I also observed that one of the swallows sort of looked like a Tree Swallow and another looked sort of drab, but that is the extent of everything I could see at the time. Today, 5 December at 10:15am I was scanning shorebirds and sea gulls with X16 binoculars when I locked onto a definite Tree Swallow that was foraging directly over the reservoir. I did not notice a Violet-green today, but I again noticed a drab swallow, about the same size as the Tree Swallow foraging in the same approximate vicinity. Through the binoculars I could see that the Tree Swallow had mature coloration that extended down to its tail. Although some of my male fledglings at our colony can look reasonably blue-green, the intensity here made me fairly certain that this was likely a breeding adult. Just where the drab swallow fits into this group is still a mystery. Thinking about the coloration of both the Violet-green and Tree Swallow, so far clearly seen, I feel that they are likely both mature adults. The fourth swallow seen back on Friday, I can't even speculate because I saw only a glimpse. So, the drab swallow could be the offspring of either the VGSW or the TRES; or it could be a Northern Rough-winged Swallow. And naturally, there could be more than four swallows foraging there that could further complicate the picture. We did have a blue-green male TRES and a brown female TRES that reproduced successfully very near that area last season, but I would expect to see at least an indication of olive drab by now on the female. Unfortunately, I haven't had a close enough look at the drab swallow to seriously consider that this pair could be wintering over to stay close to their nestbox. I'll keep checking on these swallows every few days to see if more can be determined. Linda Adams San Martin _______________________________________________ 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]]