From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jul 13 20:14:54 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6E3D8OY008310 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from la.znet.com (la.znet.com [207.167.96.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6E3C9MR008264 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [69.19.247.71] (host-69-19-247-71.rev.o1.com [69.19.247.71]) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id i6E3C4nE018331 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:12:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:13:37 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Today's Ruff 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]] Hi SBBers, Today, 7/13, I was able to get a short but close scope look at a RUFF in the New Chicago Marsh. This was in the first pond on the right (EEC side) as you walk out the tracks. I'm trying to resolve whether or not there is more than one Ruff in the NCM. The topside of this Ruff is beautiful. The scapular centers are black with a wide-lined buff chevron (pointing toward the tip) that divides the black center approximately in half on the visable portion (at least where I was looking). The scapulars also have a narrow buff edging. Upper wing coverts seem to have similar colors but I didn't get the exact detail in the time window. The tertials are blackish with near equal width buffy barring. Tertials slightly past the tail but the primaries are hidden. But during a wing stretch I could see the primaries appeared to be brownish on top. I wasn't close enough to get this amount of scapular detail on yesterdays Ruff. Also yesterday's Ruff seemed to have narrow buff barring on the tertials but the distance comes into play. The dark breast, flanks and upper belly markings are distinctly brown. The marks are of various shapes and thinned out as they approached the mid belly area. There were no large blotches at the end of the marking as I believe I saw on Yesterday's bird. The legs were slightly orangish. Other details are the same such as brownish head, no white on head or neck, darkish bill and unmarked white rear portion of belly. Yesterday's and today's Ruff had a very sleeked down look. No feathers were out of place and no back or scapular feathers were raised when I had them in view. Dean Manley _______________________________________________ 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]]