From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Oct 26 08:29:41 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9QFQJjo022418 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:26:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail07b.vwh1.net (mail07b.vwh1.net [131.103.218.112]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i9QFOVVC022372 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.180.140) by mail07b.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 1-0801464259 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:24:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <028001c4bb6f$41fa4060$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:19:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Chipping Sparrow 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i9QFQJjo022418 As I was climbing into my car at the end of the workday yesterday (10/25/2004), my colleague Josh Bennett asked if I had time to check out a "different" sparrow he'd just seen at the base of a small hill called The Knoll near Hidden Villa's main parking lot at mid-farm. The solitary bird was still where he'd seen it, ground-feeding silently on a bare deer track on a grassy slope in the open. It was a Chipping Sparrow, in adult winter plumage. It was so cooperative that we could walk through the key field marks one at a time (bold black eye-line extending forward all the way to the bill, unstreaked pale gray breast and flanks, gray extending up and across the nape without streaking, etc. This was a few minutes before 6PM. The bird was still there when we left. FWIW, I stopped off at Monte Bello's Gate 5 again this AM, a bit earlier at 7:35-7:45. No flock activity at all this time, but I could hear Varied Thrush calls all around among the trees. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]