[SBB] BAGOs at Shoreline (repost with subject)

["Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]>]

[This just repeats my prior post -- with a subject line this time.
Apologies!]

The goldeneye were foraging close to the north edge of Shoreline Lake early
yesterday morning (3/3/07), so I was able to photograph both the male and
female BARROW'S from the closest I've ever had them in good light. (By
8.30, the sun was already too harsh to get full detail in both the dark and
light plumage of the male.) I also got a closeup of a HORNED GREBE catching
a fish. But from my photographer's angle, my favorite shot of this
excellent morning was a humble White-crowned Sparrow. Also pix of one of
the male Surf Scoters on the lake, and a male Anna's showing his full neon
display in the early sunlight.

http://www.pbase.com/tgrey/latest

Today's WCSP looks to be our common wintering subspecies, a gambelii.
Majority view on my previous query showing the yellow-billed WCSP in my
backyard was that it had to be pugetensis, because we just don't get
nuttalli coming over here from the coast. But one experienced observer
wasn't so sure about that. Oh, and the hawk at the Baylands duck pond was a
juvenile Red-shouldered, not an adult Cooper's. I still can't tell a hawk
from a handsaw... ( http://www.bartleby.com/81/8045.html )

Tom Grey





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