From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Oct 26 17:51:18 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9R0nHjp002185 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ylpvm01.prodigy.net (ylpvm01-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.32]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9R0m6VC002135 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (adsl-66-126-229-161.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.126.229.161]) by ylpvm01.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9R0m4nH009456 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:48:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:47:04 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Pectoral Sandpiper? 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]] At lunch today three SCVAS volunteers and I tried to find the Ruffs at State & Spreckles. We did not find them, but accumulated this brief list which includes an hopefully correctly identified Pectoral Sandpiper. This is my second sighting of this bird, this first having been earlier this month. The others had never seen the bird. It was next to a Black-Bellied Plover, so its size was about right( shorter and thinner), it had a longish slightly decurved bill, and its finely streaked breast ended evenly at a very clean, white lower breast and belly and undersides. No leg color could be seen in poor light across the pond. The Kestrel and Meadowlarks were seen on Disk Drive by Arzino Ranch. After lunch I went on alone to Los Gatos Creek Ponds and birded the side of the pond that did NOT have the Heerman's Gull. I did see a great female Belted Kingfisher and the other birds on the second list. Alviso: Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier American Kestrel Black-Bellied Plover Black-Necked Stilt Whimbrel Long-Billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Pectoral Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Ring-Billed Gull California Gull Western Meadowlark Red-Winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Los Gatos Creek: Pied-billed Grebe Double-Crested Cormorant Great Egret Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture American Coot Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Belted Kingfisher Nuttall's Woodpecker Black Phoebe Bushtit Unidentified raft of Gulls(no optics here) Gordon -- 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]]