From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Sep 11 16:00:46 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8BMwkwT022872 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:58:47 -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 i8BMvl1c022832 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-38lc15k.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.4.180]) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C6GoU-000440-00 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:57:46 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> References: <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] Alviso Roadrunner Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:58:50 -0700 To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) 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]] An additional note on the Ruff that we saw. It flew off while we were looking at it in the first pond east of the RR tracks, north of the EEC entrance road. We watched it fly high and away WNW. It seemed to dive downward to the area of the Alviso Marina, which might be an alternate foraging area. This morning, several people noted how scraggly the roadrunner looked. I think that its sunning posture with raised back feathers made it appear a bit mangy. Tom and Rob's great photos show that it doesn't appear very scruffy when it wasn't sunning. Tom didn't mention it, while he sat among the fennel waiting to photograph this bird, the roadrunner approached him and got within 5 feet! It did a bit of bill clapping during this time, perhaps as a warning. The red bare area below the eyes was not always visible; the bird moved auricular feathers to reveal and hide this colored skin. By the way, this species is apparently sexually monomorphic, so the presence of the "eye shadow" doesn't imply a sex. There were also two budgies flying around the area, a yellow-green one and a pale blue one. The Loggerhead Shrike in the area appeared to be drooling upon seeing them. Les Chibana On Sep 11, 2004, at 1:22 PM, Rob Pavey wrote: > We were lucky with the Roadrunner this morning. When > Kay Partelow, Lisa Pavey and I arrived in the parking > lot at about 9 am it was sitting on a low horizonatal > branch of a tree by the entrance. I got several photos > from about 20 feet away as it stayed there for about > 10 minutes. It then jumped off and went down to the > waters edge and hid in some bushes for a while. It > later emerged to give the later arriving birders a > good show. > > I've posted some photos here: > http://www.pbase.com/robpavey/sbb_roadrunner_alviso > > Also seen from the trail to the north/west of the > parking lot were Loggerhead Shrike, Yellow Warbler and > Common Yellowthroat. > > We then explored the railway tracks east of State and > Spreckles with Les Chibana and party and had scope > views of the Ruff and two Pectoral Sandpipers. One > Burrowing Owl was also seen from the railway tracks. > > Rob > > --- Tom Grey <[[email protected]]> wrote: > >> The GREATER ROADRUNNER was in the area around the >> Marina parking lot this >> morning. A very raggedy looking bird, but >> nonetheless splendid! >> >> Les Chibana and Rob Pavey were there and got what >> looked to be some great >> pix -- here's a preliminary shot I took. >> >> > http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/GreaterRoadrunner2.jpg >> >> Tom Grey _______________________________________________ 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]]