Received: from mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.49]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7JFqhV01101; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:52:44 -0700 Received: from webmail.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.135.29]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <[[email protected]]net. att.net>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:52:38 +0000 Received: from [144.228.143.70] by webmail.worldnet.att.net; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:52:38 +0000 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] (SBB), Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] feeder changes. Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:52:38 +0000 X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (May 28 2002) Message-Id: <20020819155238.FQDV23721.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@webmail .worldnet.att.net> 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: We continue to see four Hooded Orioles feeding from our feeder in South San Jose as of 8/18/02. We regularly see two male, one brightly colored and one dull, and two female (together at the feeder). In addition, for the first time in many years, we have the pleasure of watching three Chestnut-backed Chickadees feeding from the various feeders and 'cleaning' our Atlas Cedar. One continues to roost in the eaves of our house. -- American Kestrel - Falcon Sparverius - The tiny but mighty falcon. > 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. > _______________________________________________ > south-bay-birds mailing list | [[email protected]] > Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: > http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/listinfo/south-bay-birds > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7JGFmV01459 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:15:48 -0700 Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.1 #46498) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:15:42 -0700 (PDT) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Cc: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] - 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: Folks: This morning, 8/19/2002, I saw two BROWN PELICANS low over Salt Pond A2W. Four BLACK SKIMMERS were on their island at Charleston Slough. Bill 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 g7JHHdV02533 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:17:40 -0700 Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-4n) id KAA16491 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:17:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] the beginnings of landbird migration 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, I decided to check riparian corridors for the beginnings of landbird migration on Sunday morning 8/18/02, spending three hours along the east side of the Guadalupe River between Montague Expressway and Highway 101 just north of the San Jose Airport and 1.5 hours both north and south of the trailer at CCFS. A trickle of the expected late summer dispersants/early fall migrants was in evidence, but, as expected, the real movement has not started yet. Besides the birds listed below, I had an OSPREY (likely male) perched on a snag in the Guadalupe River between Trimble Road and the airport and three BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRDS along Guadalupe River opposite the big beige tank north of Trimble (one female, two adult males perched during a break between a territorial skirmish). Also had feeding of young by CALIFORNIA TOWHEE, HOUSE FINCH, and LESSER GOLDFINCH along the Guadalupe River corridor. Guad River CCFS WESTERN FLYCATCHER 5 (2 PACIFIC-SLOPE by call) HOUSE WREN 1 WARBLING VIREO 1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER 1 YELLOW WARBLER 1 2 WILSON'S WARBLER 1+ 2 WESTERN TANAGER 2+ BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK 2 BUNTING SP (LAZULI?) 1 heard HOODED ORIOLE 2 BULLOCK'S ORIOLE 2 Over the last three banding days 8/14, 8/17, and 8/18, 5 WESTERN FLYCATCHERS, 1 WILLOW FLYCATCHER (8/18), and 3 WILSON'S WARBLERS were banded and a banded HOUSE WREN was recaptured. Of the birds I saw well on 8/18, none were banded. Later in the day I checked the Palo Alto yacht harbor when the tide was right. No surprise shorebirds, but Kris showed me her MEW GULL at the duck pond (rare at this time of year). The MEW GULL was very worn, with the outer primaries and virtually all the tail feathers and secondaries being basically just white feather shafts. The tertials were fresh, however, and contained dusky dark internal markings typical of second-winter plumage. All the coverts were fresh and light gray, consistent with this plumage (as was the black-tipped greenish bill). It thus appears that this bird is molting into second-winter plumage but is doing a poor job of replacing its remiges (perhaps because it is not completely healthy?). Mike Rogers Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [63.70.210.59]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7JJDNV04253 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:13:23 -0700 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-2 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7);); Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:11:16 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 2a12fa22-b688-11d4-a6a1-00508bfc9626 Received: from mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com [10.20.128.21]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA24545 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:13: 21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8/MS01) with SMTP id MAA09897 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:09:35 -0700 ( PDT) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:13:01 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-WSS-ID: 117F9D5E1019092-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] : 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: On Saturday, 17 Aug 02, I only had the morning for birding, so I went to the Palo Alto Baylands Estuary right after the peak of high tide, hoping for a Red Knot or something else unusual. Though many shorebirds showed, they were typical of the location. I counted a total of 10 WHIMBRELS. I heard only SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS calling, and a handful of them were juveniles, easily identifiable in this plumage. I then went to Crittenden Marsh, hoping that shorebird numbers there would hold until the mudflats opened. Unfortunately, the birds here numbered probably less than 50. Fortunately, there were 3 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS with them, in the northwest corner of the marsh. I then went across the creek to the Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh, where hundreds of peeps teemed on the mudflats and the light was excellent. Many juvenile birds of both LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPER were here. I noticed that many of the juvenile Westerns were already molting some gray basic feathers into the upperparts, giving them a plainer look. A scraggly-looking eclipse male LESSER SCAUP and 2 female GREEN-WINGED TEAL were present. A VIRGINIA RAIL flitted up out of the cordgrass, giving some strident "eek" calls, and then dropped quickly back, for reasons I couldn't fathom. Bright and early Sunday morning, 18 Aug 02, I was out at the Sunnyvale Sewage Ponds after seeing Mike's report. Walking around the lagoon, I had a couple hundred VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS (mainly on the wires) and a couple hundred BARN SWALLOWS (mainly in the bulrushes), which had been joined by a single CLIFF and a juvenile TREE SWALLOW. On the center channel levees terns were conspicuous in their absence. Walking out towards the algae mat, I had 5 BROWN PELICANS fly by towards the north. At the algae mat the only notable was a RUDDY TURNSTONE, which was flushed by a hiker and flew over Guadalupe Slough. I then hiked over to salt pond A4, which had numerous non-Heermann's gulls. A CLARK'S GREBE was the only aechmophorus I saw, and 6 VAUX'S SWIFTS were overhead. Moving on, I went to Calabazas Marsh, where the north pond still looks good for shorebirds. A few hundred DOWITCHERS and a couple LESSER YELLOWLEGS were present. I went down into the open area to get a better look at the dowitchers congregated in the cattail gap. With them was a handful of peeps that included a juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. I headed for New Chicago Marsh in Alviso, where I was attracted to a group of birders on the railroad tracks, which included Chris and Claire Wolf and Roland Kenner and Pat Kenny. They pointed out the RUFF and STILT SANDPIPER for me. Roland, Pat, and I then went to the Palo Alto Baylands Estuary to check for Heermann's Gull. Though there were plenty of gulls and shorebirds here, we could turn up nothing unusual. So, after a short break, I rejoined Roland and Pat for an afternoon walk out the Sunnyvale Sewage Ponds. The flock of terns on the center levee gradually grew, along with the number of birders, and eventually included both the COMMON and BLACK TERNS. Mike Mammoser 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 g7K4exV12189 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:40:59 -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]]; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:41:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:57:02 -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] Snowy Plover back at Sunnyvale WT Plant 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 again birders: This evening (6-8pm) went back to the Sunnyvale Water Treatment Plant in search of the Common Tern, which I did see. Very few terns were on the ground in the high wind when I arrived, so I walked out to the algae mat. There I found: SNOWY PLOVER, immature SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS (great contrast) RUDDY TURNSTONES, 2 LEAST SANDPIPERS, many and across the way on the other side of the levee: PECTORAL SANDPIPER While standing there, the BLACK TERN cruised by, checking me out. [Ron Thorn found Black Terns today at Coyote Point!] The SNOWY PLOVER looks like an immature in the Geo Guide. It is about the size of a Least Sandpiper and much smaller than the nearby Semipalmated Plovers. The Snowy fed very actively in little darts here and there, in contrast to the stolid Semipalmateds. It is sandy/gray colored. Dark eye and bill. Light colored legs (they almost looked pale orange in the late evening light, but I think they are more pinkish-yellowish) Pale line over eye Partial collar that does not circle the neck Back had a scaley pattern Light sandy head on top, little white triangle on the front of the face near the bill The plover fed actively on the algae mat for awhile around 7pm, then flew onto the levee just in front of me. I am not sure who was more surprised, plover or I! I froze and got great looks. It fed there quite awhile, then flew back to the algae mat. When I left the plover was still there on the algae mat, and less active. I have been watching a parent Snowy Plover with fluffy chicks near the Dumbarton for several weeks, so it was fun to see what the chicks will look like. They certainly lack that striking black the adults (or males>?) have.] I did not find the Killdeer chicks, by the way, and the parents were much less agitated than on Saturday AM. Hope the chicks are still there. GULLS -- as I was leaving, there must have been 1000 gulls on the same pond as the algae mat, in the corner where you enter. They were arriving from all directions and settling down for the night. There were also 200+ swallows high above them feeding. Snowy Egrets were settling into the reeds across the levee; night herons were departing for places unknown. 7 American White Pelicans flew into the channel. Nightime on the salt ponds. -- Kris Olson [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat]