Received: from mms1.broadcom.com (mms1.broadcom.com [63.70.210.58]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7KLVaV25168 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:31:37 -0700 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-1 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7);); Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:31:10 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 1e1caf3a-b686-11d4-a6a3-00508bfc9ae5 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 OAA04562 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:31: 36 -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 OAA28401 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:31:36 -0700 ( PDT) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:31:13 -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: 117C6A941187133-01-01 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: I stopped at the EEC in Alviso this afternoon, 20 Aug 02. The water level is down quite a bit, as low as I've ever seen it, exposing some islets of land behind the usual group of islands. This may be a good place to look for roosting shorebirds. A pair of BLACK SKIMMERS on the first island in front of the EEC had a chick that is 2/3 to 3/4 grown. The islets behind this island had 2 more adult BLACK SKIMMERS. Mike Mammoser Received: from imo-r01.mx.aol.com (imo-r01.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.97]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7KLm6V25442 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:48:06 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.9.) id t.160.128be1f8 (3996) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:47:51 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:47:51 EDT To: [[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] Ruddy Turnstone, Baird's and Pectoral Sandpipers 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 This morning Frank Vanslager and I went to the Sunnyvale Water treatment Facility (again). As we entered at least eight CASPIAN TERNS were feeding in the pond nearest the parking lot. Several AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS, GREAT EGRETS. SNOWY EGRETS and a GREEN HERON were in the same pond (more Egrets in the channel west of this pond and a good sized flock of AWPE were on the southern dike of the "West Pond"). Our first goodie of the day was a juvenile RUDDY TURNSTONE on the southern edge of the dike in the northeast corner of "West Pond", we then spotted a juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER on the semi-permanent portion of the Algae Mat (this bird flew north while we were there) and shortly thereafter the female PECTORAL SANDPIPER flew from the edge of the dike nearby ending up on top of the dike where she posed for us, in great light, until we left. A (the) baby KILLDEER was well seen. At one point 19 MARBLED GODWITS flew over heading south. A couple LESSER YELLOWLEGS were in the northeast corner of the West Pond and at on point one ended up near a GREATER YELLOWLEGS. A nice chance for visual comparison but what was more interesting was that as the birds would fly from the dike ahead of us both birds would call providing a nice chance to note the different tonal qualities. We then went to the CCFS Waterbird Pond which had lots of Dowitchers, lots of "peeps," several GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 6-7 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS but had nothing special. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was on the fence west of the pond. We then made a brief stop at the pond at State & Spreckles in Alviso. The number of shorebirds was really down from our last stop there, several Dowitchers and Greater Yellowlegs, a few peeps and 6-8 WILSON'S PHALAROPES. No Ruff or Stilt Sandpiper and it was getting hungry out so we didn't bother to try for these birds in New Chicago Marsh just across the railroad tracks. Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:51 PM, 8/20/02 Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7KNE0V26707 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:14:00 -0700 Received: from miata ([12.234.62.156]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020820231355.FTEW13899.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@miata> for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:13:55 +0000 Message-ID: <001401c2489f$55f4c620$[[email protected]]> From: "Matthew O'Brien" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:14:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 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] Pileated Woodpecker 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: This morning I hiked the Saratoga Gap Trail at Castle Rock State Park. Where the Saratoga Gap Trail converged with the Ridge Trail just short of the Castle Rock Trail Camp, Michael McGrath and I heard drumming in the trees just north of the trail towards the campsites. We then spotted a female Pileated Woodpecker working a hole in a large madrone tree across the slight gully with a (dry) creekbed. We observed the bird for perhaps five minutes, and could still hear its drumming for another ten minutes as we climbed the Ridge Trail back towards the parking lot. The sighting was around 11:30AM This site is about 2.3 miles from the parking lot. Matthew O'Brien [[email protected]] August 19, 2002 Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7L3nlV30441 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:49:48 -0700 Received: from pool0358.cvx34-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.7.103]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17hMV5-0004kB-00 for [[email protected]]; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:49:44 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:17:55 -0700 From: "Jim Danzenbaker" <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] County Birding 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: South Bay Birders: Birding on Tuesday, August 20 After being out of the county for the last several days, I wanted to scoop up some of the new arrivals that had been discovered over the last several days. I started at the corner of State and Spreckles in Alviso at about 2 pm. Nothing unusual when I first arrived although numbers of sleeping birds on the islands told me that not all birds were anxious to be seen. After about 15 minutes, a flock of 45 Long-billed Dowitchers arrived which included one STILT SANDPIPER. I watched it for several moments and then told two other birders who were also there. Unfortuantely, several minutes later, I looked back and it had vanished (probably snuck deep into the dowitcher flock). Afterwards, I headed to the local hot spot at the Sunnyvale WPCP. As I walked out on the levee between the two ponds, the first bird I saw was a BLACK TERN. While I watched it feed over the pond, I became a bit confused and then later realized that I had been seeing two Black Terns. They typically fed close together and were in view for most of my visit. I also saw the COMMON TERN feeding over the pond west of the levee. At the remains of the algae mat, I scoped in hopes of seeing something unusual but saw only the expected LEAST, and WESTERN SANDPIPERs, SEMIPALMATED PLOVERs, and two RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. However, I had been looking too far. When I stopped scoping, I scanned the edge of the nearby ditch and found one feeding RUDDY TURNSTONE. The appearance of a NORTHERN HARRIER spooked all the shorebirds and the Turnstone flew north to unseen feeding grounds. The Harrier panic having passed, I soon found the PECTORAL SANDPIPER also feeding along the ditch....a beautiful bird (one of my favorites). Back on the algae mat, I found a single juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER as well as miscellaneous other shorebirds. On my way back to the car, Bill Bousman and two other birders had relocated the COMMON TERN roosting on the levee. I enjoyed fine looks at this bird as it sat next to FORSTER'S TERNs. At one point, it spread its wings very nicely so all field marks could be seen. In the meantime, the two BLACK TERNs foraged nearby. Four BONAPARTE'S GULLs are now in the pond to the east of the levee. A nice afternoon of birding with four new county year birds (and a special thanks to all of you who located these birds and kept tabs on them)! Get out there and good luck! Jim Danzenbaker San Jose, CA 408-264-7582 (408-ANI-SKUA) [[email protected]] Falcon's Eye Guiding