From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jul 31 09:05:06 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6VG2rOP027625 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6VG1GMR027576 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (a17-128-100-204.apple.com [17.128.100.204]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6VG2K7Q015024 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay4.apple.com (relay4.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.6) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:01:17 -0700 Received: from [17.112.107.117] ([17.112.107.117]) by relay4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6VG1Fxl008460 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: [[email protected]] From: Barry Langdon-Lassagne <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:01:14 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Subject: [SBB] Baird's Sandpiper continues 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]] This morning I went to Alviso, where I met another birder, Dan. Together we found the Baird's Sandpiper foraging along the edge of the water north of the road to the EEC: between the gate and the Duck Crossing sign. The sandpiper continued the entire time we were there, from about 7 to 7:30am. Several smaller peeps (all Least Sandpipers, I believe) walked past the Baird's, giving us nice comparisons of scale and markings. At one point the Baird's came so close that it filled my spotting scope, giving me an excellent view of the black legs, light patch above (and below) the straight black bill, tan breast band above white belly, faint tan supercilium, wingtips extending beyond the tail, and the scaly pattern on its back. We also saw the sandpiper fly once and could observe the black down the center of the tail. Overall the bird looked "cleaner", sleeker and slightly larger than the peeps, but it's behavior was much like the peeps. Then we walked down the railroad tracks to try to find the Reeve. Dan had seen it on previous visits, but there was no sign of her or the Ruff during our short attempt today. We did get a fine view of a Peregrine Falcon dive bombing a flock of around 50 Phalaropes, and saw one Yellowlegs forage east of the railroad tracks and later fly over the tracks. Barry ----- _______________________________________________ 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]]