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From: "John Mariani" <[[email protected]]>
To: "South-bay-birds" <[[email protected]]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:44:17 -0700
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Subject: [SBB] Calero Reservoir, Thursday
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Howdy South-bay-birders,

    Revisited Calero County Park on Thursday afternoon. The big water faucet
was on again, so I guess they are still filling the reservoir. Walked out to
the east end of the reservoir to see if any shorebirds were hiding behind
all that tall vegetation. Flushed a couple of LEAST SANDPIPERS, several
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, a bunch of BLACK-NECKED STILTS, 1 COMMON SNIPE, and a
young BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, among other things. Numbers of coots and
ducks are starting to build up, plus today there was a flock of about 170
CANADA GEESE.
    Spent the rest of my time trying to I.D. the swarms of dragonflies and
getting sunburned. Dragonfly-wise there were lots of BLACK SADDLEBAGS, GREEN
DARNERS, and some that I think must have been STRIPED and VARIEGATED
MEADOWHAWKS, although I had trouble finding matches for all of them in the
little book I was carrying (Common Dragonflies of California). Perhaps
someone out there knows--does that book cover all the species I am likely to
find around here?
    Didn't see much at Almaden Lake Park this afternoon--only thing
different was1 WESTERN GREBE on the lake.

John Mariani
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www.birdswest.com