From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon May 31 15:20:01 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4VMIKiv020130 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 31 May 2004 15:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4VMH9cu020091 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 31 May 2004 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id t.80.d3c8242 (4592) for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 31 May 2004 18:17:01 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 18:17:01 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5111 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Sunday's SCVAS field trip highlights 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, As the group gathered for the start of Sundays' SCVAS Skyline Ridge field trip Roland Kenner spotted three BLACK SWIFTS circling the north side of Skyline Blvd. some distance northeast of it's intersection with Page Mill Rd./Alpine Road. Although many in the group missed seeing the swifts at that time a few minutes later a fairly low flying Black Swift flew north along Alpine Rd. for all to see. Not long after that several RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES were seen repeatedly flying between two evergreens located on the eastern edge of Alpine Rd. Although birding was fairly slow we had good views of BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS (including a family of four with two begging young), LAZUILI BUNTING, HUTTON'S VIREO, PURPLE FINCH, and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Heard birds included WARBLING VIREO and PYGMY NUTHATCH. A most unsatisfactory moment for many was when a bird that, at first, appeared to be a female Lesser Goldfinch was spotted in a tall evergreen. The problem was that the bird had no visible signs of a wingbar (of any kind). The wings did have dark primaries. The bird was only seen from the back which looked to be a fairly bright, unstriped, olive-green. We quickly moved to get a better angle on the bird and shortly thereafter it flew northwest out of sight. Still no sign of the wingbars? As it flew away a male LEGO first flew toward our mystery bird and then turned away from it? Identification by association? The only additional information we had gained in improving our angle of observation was that the upper and lower edges of the yellowish bill were straight with essentially no curve to them. I can't recall ever seeing a female LEGO totally devoid of wing bars, or the contrasting markings of the light edged dark tertials. The only other bird that seemed to fit, a female Painted Bunting, would have had obviously curved edges to the bill. 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]]