From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Oct 24 16:53:00 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9ONohjo016994 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9ONniVC016940 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (adsl-66-126-229-161.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.126.229.161]) by ylpvm43.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9ONnq9q023056 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:49:52 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:48:40 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Sabine's Gull & others 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, Sunday, October 24, 2004, was very cloudy and, because of the light wind blowing off the water, quite cold. The birds loved it! Both American White Pelicans and Brown Pelicans were feeding in Salt pond A1, alone with many, many gulls on the water, in the sky, incoming, outgoing, and generally excited and noisy. The herons were out in force, with five Great Blue Herons at one time within paces of each other on the levy and White Egrets like snow lining the edge of A1. I could not locate the Sabine's Gull again until Mike Mammoser showed up and found the bird perched on the end of my scope(almost). Throughout the morning the Sabine's Gull would rest on the water behind a Pelican and get lost or fly dramatically along the levy between Salt Pond A1 and Charleston Slough, alone or feeding with Bonaparte's Gulls. White primary wing flashes, Bonaparte's; black primary and tail flashes with a clear brown back and coverts, Sabine's. The birders came and oohed and awed as the Sabine's turned just the right way to flash that multicolored M at them. Turning blue, my sister and I tried to leave for two hours, but the gull would chaise us down the levy and get the attention of birders closer in and we'd put up the scopes again. Finally the sun came out and we birded our way back by Adobe Creek and The Coast Casey Forebay to look for new ducks with no luck. Again, I do not list the birds I missed but were spotted by other birders who I hope will add to this report. Gordon Our list: Pied-billed Grebe American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-Crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black Crowned Night Heron Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall Northern Shovelor Cinnamon Teal Green-Winged Teal Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Red-Shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Coot American Avocet Black-Necked Stilt Greater Yellowlegs Willet Bonaparte's Gull Ring-Billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Western Gull Sabine's Gull Forster's Tern Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Black Phoebe California Towhee Savannah Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow -- Gordon Barrett [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ 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]]