From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Feb 17 19:46:32 2005 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1I3iMGn015807 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from la.znet.com (la.znet.com [207.167.96.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1I3hKAf015757 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [69.19.246.191] (host-69-19-246-191.rev.o1.com [69.19.246.191]) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id j1I3hHlu010201 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:43:18 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:43:38 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Some Shoreline Park area ducks 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]] Hi SBBers, There are still thousands of ducks on Salt Pond A2W (viewable from Shoreline Park) including a few scattered RED HEAD. Today I decided to do a serious search and after scanning through only a thousand or so scaup species I located the TUFTED DUCK only a short distance out. A very nice looking example with a long tuft. The view point was less than midway along the A2W shoreline paved trail close to a bench with an adjacent display plaque. As I was walking back to my car Dave Weber was walking in so we went out and quickly refound it. I drove over to the Stevens Creek area to check for any teal but was distracted by a large raptor shape on a steel tower way back out by the southerly end of A2W. I had my suspisions after having seen a Golden Eagle yesterday in Shoreline Park so had to go out there. Sure enough, a GOLDEN EAGLE. The underside of the tail showed an off white base although I did not detect any white patches on the wings during stretches and preening but it seems to be a juvenile. I hope all the jack rabbits will tempt this eagle to stay around for awhile. After 30 minutes of closeup viewing of this bird I moved out a little way and started scanning ducks on this end of A2W quickly finding two EURASIAN WIDGEON and one possible AMERICAN X EURASIAN WIDGEON hybrid out in the masses. This male looked predominantly like an American but instead of the green head marks it had similar marks in rust red like an Eurasian's head color. The reddish mark began behind a small darkish area surrounding the eye. Walking back to the car I checked Stevens Creek and saw a handfull of GREEN-WINGED TEAL but no Eurasian varieties. Dean Manley Mountain View _______________________________________________ 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]]