Re: [SBB] Further notes on yesterday's gulls etc.

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All:
Alvaro also found an Orange-crowned warbler at the EEC headquarters.
Charles Coston

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Subject: [SBB] Further notes on yesterday's gulls etc.
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:10:57 -0800

>Folks
>
> 
>
>   In my quick e-mail from yesterday's SFBBO gull workshop results, I
>omitted several things. One was that some of us saw a Yellow Warbler
>at the
>headquarters of the EEC in Alviso. Another was at least one
>Violet-green
>Swallow in the flock of Tree Swallows at the EEC in Milpitas. I
>should add
>that the female Eurasian Wigeon was identified by the lack of a black
>hairline mark at the base of the bill, it was also acting as if it
>was
>paired with the Eurasian Wigeon male. A Sanderling was sitting on one
>of the
>islands in the EEC, which I thought was noteworthy. A female
>Red-breasted
>Merganser flew by as we were heading to lunch at the EEC, a species I
>don't
>associate with salt pond in the south bay, but maybe it is more
>common than
>I think (I don't get out much to the EEC any more). 
>
> 
>
>The other bird of note was that at Hidden Lake Park in Milpitas there
>was an
>interesting and pale first cycle gull, which structurally looked like
>a
>Thayer's Gull. The primaries were not white, but palest buff, and the
>tertials where off white with just a subterminal dark bar. It was not
>too
>close and I did not get any photos of that bird. It certainly is one
>of
>these troublesome birds which in the east would likely go down as a
>Kumlien's Iceland Gull, but here it is much more difficult to decide
>exactly
>what it is. If someone gets a good photo of that bird, that would
>help in
>assessing what it is. Also many hybrid gulls were seen, with some
>great
>looking "Olympic Gulls" the hybrids of Western x Glaucous-winged gull
>at
>various occasions. 
>
> 
>
>Good birding 
>
> 
>
>Al
>
> 
>
>Alvaro Jaramillo
>
>Biologist
>
>San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO)
>
>524 Valley Way, 
>
>Milpitas, CA 95035
>
> 
>
> <http://www.sfbbo.org> www.sfbbo.org
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