From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Sep 8 10:42:03 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i88HXnGR016533 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i87GuEDB025824 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:56:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DON011304 (c-67-161-43-14.client.comcast.net[67.161.43.14]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <2004090716561201300avflje>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:56:13 +0000 Message-ID: <000d01c494fb$94125cb0$0e2ba143@DON011304> From: "Peggy Don" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:56:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Pectoral & Stilt Sandipiper at State & Spreckles 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 i88HXnGR016533 SB Birders, Yesterday morning (09/06/04) I had a candidate for a Pectoral Sandpiper on the southernmost island in the State and Spreckles pond. It was partially hidden by the dry weeds and was sleeping but occasionally raised its head. I scanned the other islands and then returned my attention back but the bird moved. I found it a little farther south and although it was still partially obscured by the weeds I could identify it as a PECTORAL SANDPIPER by its size, streaked breast, moderately long, slightly decurved bill, dark lores and slightly rufous auriculars. A birder who identified himself as Tom Olson came over. He was on the same bird. He brought my attention to 3 other possibilities who were laying down together camouflaged in the weeds nearby. He said that he thought that he had also seen the STILT SANDPIPER so I scanned the sleeping birds again and came upon a possible candidate. As Tom was confirming that we had the same suspect, a dowitcher walked in front of it. If it was the Stilt Sandpiper, it has changed a great deal from when I saw it on 8/20/04. It was not as heavily barred. After Tom left I moved to a different spot to view the Pectoral Sandpiper and the 3 other birds in question. The other birds were indeed Pectoral Sandpipers. Good birding, Peggy Don _______________________________________________ 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]]