Received: from imo-d07.mx.aol.com (imo-d07.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.39]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7IGxIV16837 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:59:18 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v33.5.) id t.78.2b5d6fda (4568) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:59:10 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:59:09 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 124 Subject: [SBB] Alum Rock Park Dippers 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: Yesterday, August 17, I led a group from the Los Gatos, Wild Bird Center to Alum Rock Park. We were pleased to find Penetencia Creek still flowing with water. Although we observed several different species yesterday, I wanted to share the highlights of our day. Just beyond the Youth Science Institute (YSI) along the creek (north/east of the Big Bear picnic area) we came upon two Dippers. After one flew down steam we put our scopes on the remaining Dipper. This juvenile bird gave us great views as it preened in the sun and was in no hurry to go anywhere. We later continued up the creek and upon our return found both Dippers again. We also enjoyed watching two Golden Eagles thoughout the entire day. They were juveniles, and we watched them soaring the steep hill sides along the north/east edge of the park. At times they also landed together on the side of this hill. Actually, we saw several raptors from Copper's Hawks, to Red Tail Hawks, to Kestrels along this rim, but the eagles dwarfed them all. It was a great day! Lisa Myers Received: from dsl081-078-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (dsl081-078-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.78.186]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7IIKpV17705 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:20:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:20:47 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Subject: [SBB] feeder changes. 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: It looks like our orioles are gone. Use of the feeder has dropped radically, so we're now going back to the off-season half batches. And on thursday morning, Laurie saw a rufous hummer visiting the fountain in the front yard for a quick drink and a shower. We only see these occasionally as they travel through. Haven't seen any at the feeder out back. chuq (santa clara, central park area) -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [[email protected]] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7J08PV21715 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:08:25 -0700 Received: from [12.255.140.38] by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020819000820.UXGV1746.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@[12.255.140.38]> for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:08:20 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:08:20 -0700 From: Dennis Braddy <[[email protected]]> To: SouthBayBirds <[[email protected]]> Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Stilt, Reeve, and Pectoral Sandpiper 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: SouthBayBirders, Shortly after a fellow birder directed me to the proper location for viewing the REEVE and STILT SANDPIPER this morning, Ann Verdi arrived and promptly spotted the two birds. (They were in the next two places I was going to look.) Thank you, Ann. The birds were in New Chicago Marsh east of the railroad tracks 100 yards north of the entrance to the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center. The sleeping stilt was buried in a pack of 50 dowitchers initially revealing itself only by its lesser stature and cooler, gray coloration. Eventually it poked its head up and looked around permitting a positive ID. Early this afternoon at the Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Control Plant, after Peggy Don pointed me in the right direction, I found a PECTORAL SANDPIPER feeding on the slough side of the inner levee near the northeast corner of the large western pond. So that I could properly judge its size the sandpiper walked up and stood next to a Lesser Yellowlegs that was feeding beside the partially submerged orange highway cone. Other birds included 8 Vaux's Swifts seen together near the entrance and a Bonaparte's Gull in the southwest corner of the large eastern pond. Dennis Braddy San Ramon Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7J4MaV24704 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:22:36 -0700 Received: from rahul ([64.169.18.242]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:56:22 -0700 From: Kris Olson <[[email protected]]> To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/mixed by demime 0.98b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Subject: [SBB] Palo Alto Duck Pond: MEW GULL 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: Hello Birders, Decided to check out Mike Roger's hunch on the Heerman's Gull with my 8 year old for assistance. She did a great job feeding the gulls, but no Heerman's gull was found. I did see a very small gull that turned out to be a MEW GULL, later verified by Mike Rogers. He thinks the gull may be sick as it has no tail and many wing feathers are just the shafts. The gull is smaller than the Ring-bills. Very thin greenish-gray bill with a dark spot. Matching leg color. Big dark eye. Light gray back with a touch of light brown on the wing fold. Gray smudges up its neck and head. It was hanging out on the low fence posts by the duck pond. If you park in the first duck pond parking lot, it was on your right, between there and the second duck pond lot. There was a also a female LESSER SCAUP along with many RING-BILLED GULLS, CALIFORNIA GULLS (including some stunning immatures (first year, says Mike) with their chocolate brown scalloping), and a few WESTERN GULLS. On the mud flats, where we ran into Mike, there were more gulls, an American White Pelican, Whimbrels, Long-billed Curlews, Marbled Godwit, Long-billed Dowitchers and a few Short-billed Dowitchers, Black-bellied Plovers and sandpipers too far away for my scope! The birds were flying out as the tide was coming in, to roost where? -- Kris Olson [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] Received: from highstream.net (mail.highstream.net [65.214.41.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7J5GGV25408 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:16:16 -0700 Received: from default [68.130.93.151] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id AEF694A0004C; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:15:34 -0400 Message-ID: <01a801c2473f$25760b00$e25d8244@default> Reply-To: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> To: "south bay birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:13:23 -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] Stilt Sandpiper, Ruff, Black Tern, Common Tern 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: Pat Kenny and I stopped by New Chicago Marsh mid-morning and were directed by other birders (thanks) to the RUFF and the STILT SANDPIPER east of the railroad tracks. Eventually, the Stilt Sandpiper woke up enough to give us and Mike Mammoser pretty good views. In the early afternoon, we reconnected with Mike at the Sunnyvale WPCP and walked out the west levee of the pair separating the East and West ponds. We met a returning Al Eisner short of the place where the terns have been roosting near where the levee turns right and heads north. While we were swapping lies with Al we spotted a COMMON TERN flying over the pond west of the levee. Shortly we also saw a small, dark tern flying away to the NW. During the excitement, Frank Vanslager and Bob Reiling arrived, getting quick glances at the disappearing bird. We reacquired the dark tern several times, but at long distance. Wanting to pursue it, but not wanting to disturb the now roosting COMMON TERN for birders we could see approaching, we waited. Linda Sullivan and others whose names I don't know arrived, saw the COMMON TERN, and finally we barged through the tern roost. We walked around the NE corner of the west pond (the algae mat was nearly empty of birds except for some in the immediate vicinity of the reeds; the main mat seemed too wet for use; nothing of interest). Since we were on the north side of the pond, we naturally found the dark tern back in the SE. We headed back to the area of the tern roost and got excellent views of the BLACK TERN, sometimes roosting on the levee, more often out over the pond, flying slowly into the strong northwesterly breeze. Roland Kenner