From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Sep 8 22:58:41 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i895v7wT028379 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i895tx1c028335 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 204.127.205.142 ([204.127.205.142]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2004090905555801600hgv4re>; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 05:55:58 +0000 Received: from [67.169.121.5] by 204.127.205.142; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 05:55:57 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (Birders) Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 05:55:57 +0000 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Jul 16 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 Subject: [SBB] Now two male Ruffs in Alviso 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, I stopped by State and Spreckles in Alviso this evening 9/8/04 on the way home from work. I failed to find any Pectoral Sandpipers, but did locate two basic-plumaged males RUFFS in the north part of the marsh. These birds are very similar in appearance, but careful study revealed a few differences that could be used to separate them. The more aggresive bird is a little brighter above, with slightly more contrasting whitish feather edges. Looking carefully at the tertials and lower rear scapulars some black barring is apparent (easily overlooked at a distance). The other bird has plain feather interiors. Both birds have somewhat faded orange/pinkish legs. I suspect that these are the same two Ruffs that wintered here last year - and wouldn't be surprised if the brighter, barred tertial bird was the brighter barred tertial bird from last winter (also more aggresive then). It is thus quite possible that all three Ruffs are returning birds. It also seems likely to me that the drabber bird was the other basic-like bird seen by Dean Manley on 13 July 2004. Also at the marsh were 6+ LESSER YELLOWLEGS and an immature PEREGRINE FALCON. 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]]