From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Sep 30 15:15:40 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8UMCrjh004240 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m24.mx.aol.com (imo-m24.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.5]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8UMBlVC004182 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m24.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.7.) id t.75.3560156e (4426) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:11:41 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:11:40 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5113 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Sabine's Gull at CCFS 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, First stop this morning for Frank Vanslager and I was at the Coyote Creek Field Station Waterbird Pond. We were initially surprised at the huge number of birds in the pond, literally thousands of Ducks, Gulls and Shorebirds. Included among the shorebirds were at least 15 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. As we were finishing up and checking thru the Gulls a very small, very dark juvenile SABINE'S GULL was spotted swimming in the far southwestern portion of the pond (we were on the center eastern portion of the pond). This gull had uniformly dark gray upperparts (very little indication of brown at this distance) which included the back half of the neck (continuing down onto the side of the chest) and back upper portion of the head. The front of the head, lower face, throat, front of the neck, chest, and underparts were white. A whitish area was also above and in front of the folded wing (between the dark folded wing and the dark side of the chest). The dark area on the head ended at and included the eye which was white highlighted, above and below, toward the rear. It had a small black bill. Unfortunately the bird flew, unseen, while we were trying to locate a landmark so that Frank could get his scope on the bird. We rechecked this pond several times during the morning, as well as other ponds to the west, but we were unable to relocate the SAGU. I should note that it was fairly windy in this area in the morning and that the Ducks and Gulls would all flush at the slightest provocation (TURKEY VULTURES, RED-TAIL HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER and who knows what else overhead). We also birded the riparian corridor north of the CCFS banding trailer, lots of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (all ID'd were Audubons), YELLOW WARBLERS (including a bright male with rufous streaks on the breast and flanks), several WESTERN FLYCATCHERS (several were singing PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERS), and our first HERMIT THRUSHES of the fall. On Tuesday (9/28) Frank and I checked out the riparian area east and south of the Waterbird Pond. Notables included a SAY'S PHOEBE and a couple WILLOW FLYCATCHERS. _______________________________________________ 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]]