From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Jul 23 16:22:09 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6NNJmOY022354 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (imo-d21.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.207]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6NNIwMR022308 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id t.195.2c4ebd07 (24895) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:18:54 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:18:54 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5113 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Common Tern, Salt Pond A9 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I saw a COMMON TERN in Salt Pond A9. This bird could quite possibly be the second COTE seen on 7/22 by Mike Rogers and Richard Jeffers. The bird was perched on a tall thin stick when first found and later flew to the top of a lower box-like structure. Unfortunately, I was moving to a new position for better viewing when the bird flew to the lower structure and Frank was similarly distracted. No in-flight views. We were first attracted to the bird as it had a well defined black cap on the rear portion of the head with a white forehead and base of the bill (this was the only Tern seen all morning with a partial black cap of the type which is typical for COTE). We then noted that it had a fairly pale (medium gray) carpal bar (well seen on both sides of the bird but sometimes had to note). The legs were a dark red (much redder than the orange-red of FOTE legs). At times the bill looked blackish but under good light an orange color could be detected (bill would look a dark orange with a black top to the upper mandible and a black tip). Frank felt that the bill was more reddish (most observation from two different positions). The rest of the body was visually similar to that of the FOTE, light gray upper and white lower, except that under the best lighting conditions when the bird was in profile the dark edge of the tail could be seen. At least four CASPIAN TERNS were seen (at one place at one time) with at least one of the CATE making peeping sounds as it flew overhead (I assume it was a juvenile). As was noted in Mike's e-mail the "Mallard" is in Salt Pond A9 with hole in the A9/A14 dike but there is also a hole in the A14/A13 dike (typically a dredge would replace the dike after having cut a hole in it to allow the dredge to move into the next pond). Maybe they're emptying all three of these ponds into A15? Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ 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]]