Received: from highstream.net (mail.highstream.net [65.214.41.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7DJXpV17997 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:33:51 -0700 Received: from default [68.130.9.15] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id AEE0E41A007E; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:32:48 -0400 Message-ID: <018f01c242ff$e2e446a0$2b5d8244@default> Reply-To: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> To: "south bay birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:29:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Note: This E-mail was scanned for spam. X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.98b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Subject: [SBB] Ruddy Turnstone at Sunnyvale WPCP Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: At 10:30 this morning, Pat Kenny and I found a juvenile RUDDY TURNSTONE in the west (larger) pond at the Sunnyvale Water Polution Control Plant. The bird was near the green reed patch out in the mud/algae mat in the NE corner of the pond. Best viewing was from the inner levee on the north side of the pond. It flew several times but always returned to this same area, and was still there when we left. It spent much of its time TURNing over chunks of crust with its bill. The bird had a white throat, light supercilium, dark ear-patch, and light patches lower on the face; most of the dark feathers on the upperparts had buff edges; it was a good match for Sibley's juvenile except that the legs had a deeper orange if not reddish cast. We found none of the other interesting birds seen in this vicinity recently. Roland Kenner Received: from imo-m10.mx.aol.com (imo-m10.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.165]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7DLTgV19884 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:29:42 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v33.5.) id t.61.242e62f3 (17079); Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:29:38 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:29:38 EDT To: [[email protected]], [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.98b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Subject: [SBB] Ano Nuevo field trip Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: All, On last Sunday's Ano Nuevo field trip things were fairly slow in the parking lot, California Quail, Bewick's Wren and Lesser Goldfinch were in the bushes nearby while European Starling and Western Scrub jay could be seen in the treetops. Preliminary signs had indicated that some of the target birds would not be seen so we decided to vary the trip somewhat and try for a Yellow-breasted Chat that had been recently re-found, having apparently been in the same general area for the last two months, about a quarter mile from the parking lot. As we started out a family of California Quail with many young ran ahead of us on the trail while American Goldfinches and Song Sparrows popped up from the tall grasses to check us out. Unfortunately the Chat failed to show, or even call, despite or perhaps because of much movement in the Willows near where the bird had been previously seen. The pond yielded elusive views of Marsh Wren and Common Yellowthroat with somewhat better views of American Coot, a Pied-billed Grebe, a pair of Ruddy Duck (a gorgeous powder blue-billed male), bathing Brown Pelican, Western Gull and a Heermann's Gull. At this point we also had fair scope views of a small group of Pigeon Guillemots and a line of Marbled Murrelets (mostly dark breeding plumaged birds but with one brilliant black and white basic plumaged bird bringing up the rear). Unfortunately the "air" was not good for scopes as the weather was as nice as it can get on the coast. Chestnut-backed Chickadees were busy working the conifers near the pond while an Osprey was spotted with a large fish flying over and eventually landing, out of sight, in the conifers north of the trail near Hwy. 1. A single Red-shouldered Hawk put in a brief appearance, Savannah Sparrows worked the trail ahead of us and at the staging area a brilliant male Wilson's Warbler tried to hide as we once again checked out nearby Marbled Murrelets (including another Basic plumaged bird). Barn and Cliff Swallows began to show. Later as we scanned the nearby rocks Roland Kenner and Pat Kenny located a juvenile Wandering Tattler. A Cooper's Hawk perched nearby and a single Violet-green was found among the other Swallows and a Northern Harrier was spotted over the beach. Things seemed to be looking up, however, the beach and the island itself yielded very little other than thousands of Gulls (mostly Western), Cormorants (Brandt's & Double-crested), Harbor and Elephant Seals. A small flock of Black Turnstones were on the beach at North Point with a large flock of Blackbirds (a small flock of "peeps" flew quickly by unidentified) and a gang of American Crows was on South Point. The trip back was uneventful until we suddenly spotted Vaux's Swifts flying near the staging area, Roland then spotted what looked to be larger dark Swift but unfortunately as we watched it flew further away and near a couple other Swifts of the same size and a positive ID was not possible as they disappeared as swiftly as they appeared. We then started to watch nearby low flying Swallows when Shirley Gordon and Emily Curtis found a Bank Swallow that was eventually well seen by the group. A short stop on the beach below the pond yielded Willet, Whimbrel, Marbled Godwit, an adult Wandering Tattler and a really good look at a nicely "marbled" Marbled Murrelet. Unfortunately, another check for the Chat was to no avail. All in all the trip was considered successful with several in attendance seeing life birds (Marbled Murrelet, Wandering Tattler and/or Bank Swallow). Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:32 PM, 8/13/02 Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.19.30]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7DM6JV20716 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:06:19 -0700 Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-4n) id PAA37954 for [[email protected]]; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:06:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] RUTU, COTE Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: All, After getting Roland's email about the SWPCP Ruddy Turnstone today 8/13/02, I headed out there for a lunchtime stroll. The swallow flock on the wires included CLIFF SWALLOWS feeding young, two juvenile VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, and a juvenile TREE SWALLOW doing its best Bank Swallow imitation. While watching these birds Mike Mammoser, who must have had the same idea, caught up to me. We later bumped into Steve Miller who was birding after his noontime jog out there. The juvenile RUDDY TURNSTONE was still present near the reedy vegetation on the edge of the algae mat, among hundreds of other shorebirds. On the way back we located a basic plumaged COMMON TERN, presumably the same one seen previously by Al Eisner. It allowed nice views on the westernmost of the two dikes between the main ponds. After studying the tern we realized that the (presumably the same) juvenile RUDDY TURNSTONE had joined us along the edge of channel, granting views from only 30 feet away! RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were all over; Steve counted 3000+ in the east pond and there were at least 1000 more in the west pond. At least 20 WILSON'S PHALAROPES were around as well. The juvenile RING-BILLED GULL is also still present along the channel, along with a molting adult BONAPARTE'S GULL. Mike Rogers