From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Feb 10 18:23:09 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1B2KjG4028878 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:20:45 -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 i1B2JYCp028835 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:19:34 -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 i1B2JX6j008915 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from flora03.slac.stanford.edu ([134.79.16.55]) by smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora03.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id i1B2JXYb001728 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:19:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:19:33 -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: flora03.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Subject: [SBB] Re: 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]] On Saturday I wrote: > 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. Dave Weber's description of the bird back in the "normal" location sounds rather similar to the above, so perhaps there's just one bird, and it was just doing a bit of a tour of the area on Saturday -- hard to tell. Also, after consulting Rising's photo guide, I'm not at all convinced I could say this is an immature as opposed to a tan-stripe adult; even the streaking can occur on the latter, according to Rising. > 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). What I saw is a pretty good match for the Slate-colored Fox Sparrow shown in Fig. 39.1 in the Rising photo guide. The wings and tail were rusty brown, and contrasted with the body. The face was gray. There may have been some brown or even rusty-brown on the crown, but the illustration even seems to show a bit of that. I'm not fully convinced I can rule out Sooty (I obviously need to look more carefully at more of them), but I lean toward Slate-colored. Al Eisne _______________________________________________ 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]]