From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Feb 7 16:59:22 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i180vFGC009335 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nospam2.slac.stanford.edu (nospam2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.86]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i180sVCp009280 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.19.101]) by nospam2.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i180sT6j003654 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:54:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from flora05.slac.stanford.edu ([134.79.16.59]) by smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:54:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora05.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id i180sS5C017627 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:54:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: flora05.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Subject: [SBB] A few birds X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5a1 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]] This morning I paid a limited visit to Alum Rock Park, where the highlight was one AMERICAN DIPPER singing from a concealed location in the creekbed in the Mineral Springs area. After about a minute of this, it emerged to forage in the stream. Early afternoon, I found a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the extreme east end of Charleton Road (Mountainview), by itself on a lawn near where the last driveway makes a left turn. Since I was in my car, I was able to observe this bird closely, and it appeared to be an immature, having faint streaking on the breast, and a not fully bright facial pattern. This may be a different bird from the one which has been regularly seen by the western part of the marsh -- I've seen the latter a couple of times, and my recollection is that it was a brighter bird, but I didn't have as close looks at it, so I'm not as certain of its plumage. At the marsh, I saw a gray-headed FOX SPARROW (I'll have to look this up in one of the Rising books to say more). And the OAK TITMOUSE is still present. (By the way, I first saw that Titmouse on my first visit to look for the Waterthrush, a few days after the latter was first reported there in October.) Al Eisner _______________________________________________ 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]]