From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Sep 2 20:38:27 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i833ZKGU026538 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i833YeDB026490 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-38ldvf7.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.253.231]) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C34qT-0007JD-00; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:34:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> References: <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:35:34 -0700 To: San Mateo birds list <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Cc: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Re: [pen-bird] Arctic Loon and Ruff 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]] Sorry for the crossposting and your duplicate message if you're on both lists. Thanks to Ron for following up on this bird with Al DeMartini, and thanks to Al for getting the confirmation. My friend, Lisa Myers, saw this bird while leading a group of beginning birders along the San Mateo coast. After studying this dark loon with white flanks, then moving on with her trip, she got in touch with me about the possibility of an Arctic Loon being seen in the area. I told her that the timing was good and I would try to get out there to look for it, but I would also let a few San Mateo locals know about the sighting. Lisa saw this bird close to where Al found it. As Ron noted, on 8/31, I did find a bird that looked good for an Arctic Loon, but because I had a 60% confidence level (not that I thought there was a 60% chance) about calling it as such, I deferred to others who might have a higher level of confidence. I found the bird straight out from the right side low bluffs above San Gregorio Beach (straight out from the ranger kiosk). It was about 150 yds. offshore. It was swimming steadily northward as it preened. As you might know, when loons preen, they list from right to left. So, I was seeing lots of white flank, then none, then lots of white. Eventually, it stopped and it appeared to have about 2 in. of white showing along the flanks from breast to hindquarter. I couldn't see a chinstrap, but felt that this didn't eliminate Pacific Loon. Les Chibana On Sep 2, 2004, at 4:09 PM, [[email protected]] wrote: > > On August 28, a friend of Les Chibana had a possible ARCTIC LOON in > basic plumage between San Gregorio State Beach and Pomponio State > Beach. Les contacted me and at the time I was not able to look for the > loon. On August 31, I was contacted by Les, who had seen the loon and > thought there was a sixty percent chance, it was an Arctic Loon. I > left a > message with Al DeMartini last night not knowing it he was in town. He > did go out there this morning and wanted me to mention his report on > the > Internet, but would call in his report to the Northern California > Bird Box. > > Driving south along Hwy.1, drive past San Gregorio State Beach, drive > up the hill, where it will level off, continued until road just > starts to go > down hill to Pomponio State Beach and pull off to the side of the > road. > Scan the water below the bluff. The Arctic Loon was seen with a Common > Loon, ( 3 ) Red-throated Loons and a Pacific Loon. His details that > were > given to me, were that white extended along the sides to the rear of > the > flanks, where the white fare-up extending up to the sides of the rump. > The rear of the upperparts dip down into the white flanks, this > giving the > appearance of a white patch in the rear flanks. He said the head > appeared > flat-topped. No chinstrap was visible. > > Al stopped at Pescadero Marsh, where a juvenile RUFF was with Black > Turnstones along the creek east of the Hwy. 1 bridge. The tide was > coming > in and the Ruff and Black Turnstones flew out to the rocks on the > west side > of the bridge. The Black Turnstones took off again with the Ruff and > landed > on the beach. > > Ron Thorn > _______________________________________________ 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]]