From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Sep 11 20:46:52 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8C3iTwT027057 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (smtp1.stanford.edu [171.67.16.123]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8C3hr1c027014 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lawmail1.stanford.edu (lawmail1.Stanford.EDU [171.64.212.80]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8C3hqR6009970 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:43:52 -0700 To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0 September 26, 2002 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:43:51 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on lawmail1/stanford(Release 5.0.12 |February 13, 2003) at 09/11/2004 08:43:52 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Alviso Roadrunner -- more pix 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]] As Les Chibana reports, I had the good luck this morning to have the Alviso GREATER ROADRUNNER approach very close to me while I was sitting quietly in the fennel down by the pond on the east side of the entrance road to the Alviso Marina parking lot. I was only able to see the bird through the fennel, and here are the two best photos I got during this close encounter of the beep-beep kind.. http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/GreaterRoadrunner3.jpg http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/GreaterRoadrunner4.jpg Looking closely at mine and Rob Pavey's pictures, and reviewing other photos on the net, I have to agree with Les that this bird doesn't have any gaps in its feathering -- what we had been seeing as a gap along the neck is the result of this bird's elevation of a feather tract, its sunbathing behavior. For a photo of this characteristic behavior on another bird, see http://www.pbase.com/image/33696798 None of Rob's or my posted pictures show the red mark behind the eye mentioned by Dotty Calabrese, but the mark does show up on two other out of focus photos I took. Tom Grey http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41 _______________________________________________ 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]]