From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Oct 6 12:01:46 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i96IwIjp026742 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.92]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i96IvNVC026700 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flora01.slac.stanford.edu (flora01.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.16.29]) by mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i96IvKP5022052 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora01.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id i96IvKAu028593 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:57:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: flora01.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:57:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [SBB] Non-Red-breasted Sapsucker 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 walked along the east side of Stevens Creek from Crittenden Lane nearly to La Avenida. Migrants were scarce: just a Western Wood-Pewee seen, and one or two Yellow Warblers heard. The latter is in contrast to at least 8 on my last visit, Sept. 27, but could perhaps be due in part to my later start today. As on my last visit, there was a Green Heron north of the lone eucalyptus tree. One bird of note: a Sapsucker was seen at a short stretch of relative bare creekside trees, about 50 yards south of the north end of the Moffeit housing. I only had a few brief looks before it left. (It came in from the south along the creekside trees, but I didn't determine where it went.) I could see a striped facial pattern, but I didn't get an adequate look at the face, nor any look at all at the back. However, the bird had an extensively red throat. This red did not penetrate at all into the blackish bib on the upper breast. The belly was pale (probably pale yellow). As well as ruling out pure Red-breasted, I think these observations also make a hybrid unlikely. I saw the bird about 9:50, and stuck around until 10:30 without seeing it again. But maybe it will still be in the area in case someone wants to check. Al Eisner _______________________________________________ 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]]