From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Oct 31 13:04:18 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9VL1kjn006312 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9VL03VC006265 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:00:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from 204.127.205.147 ([204.127.205.147]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <20041031220002016001201re>; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:00:02 +0000 Received: from [67.169.121.5] by 204.127.205.147; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:00:01 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (Birders) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:00:01 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Sep 14 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: bS5tLnJvZ2Vyc0Bjb21jYXN0Lm5ldA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Cc: Mike Rogers <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] 2 LBBGUs and WFGO flock at Alviso Marina 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, This morning 10/31/04, I got a call from Scott Terrill, who had gotten a call from David Vander Pluym and Matt Brady, who had just found a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in the gull flock east of the railroad tracks east of the Alviso Marina. I hustled out there and they still had the bird in their scopes. Occasionally a train would go by and flush all the gulls, then the flock would settle again, and we would refind the bird. We had variable descriptions of the leg color, and when I saw that the bird I was looking at had virtually no apical spots left, after distinctly noting them earlier, I decided to pan through the flock looking for a second bird. Sure enough, there were two adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS out there! Bird 1 has duller yellow legs, some dingy black in the bill near the nares (like the Lake Cunningham bird of years past), large white apical spots on the newly replaced inner primaries, and much dusky streaking on the head. Bird 2 had very bright deep yellow legs, a clean-looking bill, apical spots that are nearly completely worn away, with active molt in the inner primaries/outer secondaries, and much more limited head streaking. I got photos (and David got video) of both birds. At 12:06pm a train flushed both birds and at least one appeared to head off to southern pond A12 (the other perhaps to the impoundment north of the Marina). At 10:23am, I heard GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE and looked up to see 18 birds (a mix of adults and young birds) heading south. The birds circled back to the north far to the east of us a few minutes later. Later, at 12:23pm, David picked out presumably the same 18 birds, once again heading south to the west of us. They ultimately headed towards the coast , but kept looking as if they were searching for a good spot to land. Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ 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]]