From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jul 29 15:49:21 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6TMlUOR026073 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6TMkGMR026022 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id t.da.fee1c1e (16930) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:46:10 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:46:10 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] County birding 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, Bill Bousman, a friend of Bills (I was introduced, sorry I didn't remember as he had a good eye for the birds) and I saw the juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER right where Dean Manley reported it being late last night (7:30 PM) (in the channel on the north side of the Environmental Education Center entrance road about 30-50 feet past the railroad tracks). The adult male RUFF was in the channel another hundred to hundred and fifty feet further on. He still has the large distinctive black spots on the sides of his chest and I noted that he retained a nice breeding plumage (red and black) greater covert on his right side. Shortly after the Ruff was found the Phalaropes nearby spooked and disappeared taking the Ruff with them (he flew way out into the center of New Chicago marsh). We then walked the southern edge of Salt pond A16 (following Steve Rottenborns tire tracks) spotting both RUDDY TURNSTONES, four adult BLACK SKIMMERS and one healthy looking, half grown juvenile (looking very much like a juvenile Gull as it slept standing up), a basic plumaged BONAPARTE'S GULL and the mostly alternate plumaged REEVE. The Reeve was in New Chicago Marsh about a hundred yards south of the dike (walk out to the western edge of the third island in A16 and then check out in the marsh). (This is the same area in which Frank and I have previously seen the Reeve.) Two LESSER YELLOWLEGS were with a couple GREATER YELLOWLEGS in Coyote Creek Field Station's Waterbird Pond. 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]]