Re: [SBB] out of area ID's... (help?)

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

For those of you playing along at home...

Alvaro was first, and identified them for me.

On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> First one is here, and I initially thought it was a young merganser  
> (based on size and beak shape),

And it is a hooded merganser, which makes my day...


>
> The second was seen in the same area on a sand bar with a bunch of  
> gulls. I realized there was a "small head" gull in among the usual  
> riff-raff, and I thought it might be a Bonaparte's. it's not, not  
> with a yellow beak and that plumage, but -- young kittiwake, maybe?  
> it flew off and was fairly skittish, but I got some good shots of it:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/1434136957/in/photostream/

new gull, moulting. I never considered mew gull, but now that I've  
had Alvaro's help, going back to the Sibley's, I can see the ID, and  
that'll help me later.

(Thanks, Alvaro! again!)

> Big surprise to me was that at Yaquina head near newport, where  
> there's a Brandt's rookery, we found a couple of nests with young  
> not fully fledged -- the heads were still downy and they were being  
> fed by the parents. That seems really late in the season to me,  
> given the first fall rain came through while we were there.

Alvaro also noted that's normal for that area, even though the  
Brandt's are done for the season down here.



Chuq Von Rospach
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