From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Feb 17 13:54:06 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1HLpnG7029872 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail07c.vwh1.net (mail07c.vwh1.net [207.201.152.68]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i1HLoLCp029803 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.180.140) by mail07c.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.90vs) with SMTP id 3-0753634608; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:50:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000c01c3f59e$9753df40$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:39:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5a1 Cc: Alberts and Harwood <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Townsend's Solitaire at Hidden Villa today 2/17/04 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i1HLpnG7029872 All, At 1:10 PM this afternoon (2/17/2004) I was watching a very shy LINCOLN'S SPARROW in Hidden Villa's upper garden (by the chicken coop), when a medium-sized grey bird popped up and posed in the open at 30 feet for several minutes, on a blackberry vine just 5 feet off the ground. Its relatively small, blunt, dark, thrush-like bill; dark eye with prominent white eye-ring (broken at the upper front on this individual); and a peachy wing patch immediately gave it away as a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE. After a couple of minutes it obligingly turned around and gave me good look at the white outer tail feathers on an otherwise dark, fairly long tail, as well as white edgings on its secondaries. A couple of minutes later it flew closer to my hiding place on the other side of the blackberry hedge, and landed atop a fencepost just 4 feet away. It them moved into a myrtle tree next to the "white house" and I could see it flycatching within the canopy of this short, spreading tree. Both of these are my first of their respective species at Hidden Villa. On Friday 2/13/04 I followed up on reports of a calling NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL along HV's Creek Trail. At 6 PM the NSOW was fairly vocal for about 10 minutes at the intersection of the Creek and Grapevine trails. Two WESTERN SCREECH-OWLS called briefly at the same time and place. An hour earlier, I had re-found the white-striped WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, as well as a RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, at the children's garden. --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]]