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 g7TIeMV14351 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:40:23 -0700 Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-4n) id LAA98920 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:40:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] 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: All, Early this morning 8/29/02 I made a 2-hour figure-eight bike loop around both of the Sunnyvale WPCP ponds. No surprises today, but there were LOTS of birds. Duck numbers are swelling rapidly, with 4300+ NORTHERN SHOVELERS, hundreds of MALLARDS, GADWALLS, and RUDDY DUCKS, and about 20 each of NORTHERN PINTAIL and CINNAMON TEAL. Whether a pair of AMERICAN WIGEON (male in eclipse) and two GREEN-WINGED TEAL arrived recently with the rest of these birds or oversummered is not clear, although the wigeon were not flightless. At least 5 broods of LESSER SCAUP were near the southwest corner of the main (west) pond. Four faded adult females were in the channel south of the main pond with 37+ young (some full grown, some less than half grown). A single tiny duckling was diving near its mother on the main pond. At least eight other LESSER SCAUP were on the main pond (apparently also hatching year birds), as were 4+ EARED GREBES. The swallow flock on the wires by the radar station (and a more in the reeds near the barge dock) included 630+ VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, 160+ BARN SWALLOWS, and 7+ CLIFF SWALLOWS. Three NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS were foraging over the channel nearest the parking lot as I left. Both VAUX'S and WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS were heard (and glimpsed) high overhead over the Lockheed ponds. Good numbers of gulls were around, along with a surprising (for the time of day) 126+ FORSTER'S TERNS. Also at least 4 adult CASPIAN TERNS and one begging juvenile. The remnants of the "algae" mat in the northeast corner of the main pond had 4 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS among LEAST SANDPIPERS and a single RED-NECKED PHALAROPE; 48 more RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were swimming together on the main pond. A juvenile LESSER YELLOWLEGS was in the channel north of this pond. Despite the ominous presence of two COMMON RAVENS perched on the north dike, two small precocial KILLDEER young are still running about. Interesting shorebirds overflying the ponds (heading southeast) were 16 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and 7 WHIMBREL, both flocks being picked out by their calls before coming into view. The large number of birds here should attract good stuff. In past falls this area has produced White-faced Ibis, American Golden-Plover, Wandering Tattler, Hudsonian Godwit, Parasitic Jaeger, Franklin's Gull, Sabine's Gull, Elegant Tern, Purple Martin, Bank Swallow, and Yellow-headed Blackbird - so there is plenty of reason to keep checking! Mike Rogers Received: from thorium.btinternet.com (thorium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.67]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7TKJMV15863 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:19:22 -0700 Received: from mendelevium ([194.75.226.23]) by thorium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17kVl5-0004qh-00 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:19:15 +0100 Received: from 192.73.228.9 by mendelevium ([194.75.226.23]); Thu, 29 Aug 02 21:19:15 BST Message-ID: <2370357.1030652355525.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:19:15 +0100 (BST) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MAILER: talk21.com WAS v2 Subject: [SBB] Black Terns 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: On my umpteenth try for these this lunchtime I finally found one foraging over the west pond on my return along the levee. I watched it for a couple of minutes when another bobbed across my view...then another. I thought I had accounted for all three when another popped up in a place that could only be explained by there being a fourth tern. I stopped there. I thought they were taking the mickey. Andy 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 g7TKpuV16512 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:51:56 -0700 Received: from pacbell.net ([63.195.123.39]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:48:10 -0800 From: Jay Withgott <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Content-type: text/plain; x-mac-creator=4D4F5353; x-mac-type=54455854; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Subject: [SBB] tern clarification 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: Thanks to Al Eisner for catching my slip-up in yesterday's hasty message -- I did not mean to suggest the Common Tern at Sunnyvale was a juvenile and thus a 2nd individual. Rather, it did appear to be an adult or subadult in basic plumage to me (although while I saw it well perched, my in-flight views were all poor bcs directly into the sun.) It appeared not to have dark secondaries in flight, but the dark wedge in the primaries was not sharply distinct, either -- so perhaps a bird before full maturity in the 3rd year??, tho I can't find field guides that show all the year-by-year, season-by-season variation. - JW Al Eisner wrote: > > here -- very nice. The juv. COMMON TERN and the 2 juv. BLACK > > TERNS gave me very good views in the place previously reported > > -- the dike b/w the 2 main ponds. > > All reports I've paid attention to for the Common Tern have been of a > basic-plumaged (probably 1-year-old) bird. So if you really had a juvenile, > it would be a different bird. Is that what you meant to say? Received: from imo-r02.mx.aol.com (imo-r02.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.98]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7TLL2V17099 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:21:02 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.10.) id t.166.130058e5 (3924) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:20:51 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:20:51 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] 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: All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I checked out the impoundment north of the Alviso Marina and west of the railroad tracks (between the tracks and Salt Pond A12). Among a small group of WESTERN SANDPIPERS on the southern edge of the impoundment was a female PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Later we saw a PESA flying with a group of peeps (probably the same bird). A single SEMIPALMATED PLOVER flew west over Salt Pond A12 from the impoundment. Later as we approached the northern end of the impoundment Frank spotted a small "rock that moved a bit." Closer examination revealed a lightly marked SNOWY PLOVER (I assumed it was most likely a juvenile) sitting in the lighter colored area of the impoundment. The bird was trying to rest during much of our sighting but at one point it stood up on it's left leg, it then spent some time preening the right portion of it's breast and flanks, occasionally extending it's right wing and dropping it's right leg. We then became concerned as the foot not only appeared large but was also black (the legs looked gray). When preening his right side breast and flank the bird would extend it's leg toward the rear, that is, the leg appeared to function normally but we never saw the bird use it even when on a couple occasions it seemed to lose it's balance a bit. The bird was alert. (The SNPL was county life bird #307 and county year bird #227 for me.) On our way out we had three MARBLED GODWITS and a WHIMBREL in the southern portion of the impoundment. We then went to the pond at State & Spreckles where there were hundreds of Dowitchers, many WILSON'S PHALAROPES, "lotsa" GREATER YELLOWLEGS and "batches" of LESSER YELLOWLEGS but no "goodies." We also had at least ten VAUX'S SWIFTS circling near the intersection and a Split-leaf Palm nearby. A quick look at Salt Pond A16 (EEC) revealed that there were almost no birds there and that the water level is very low exposing previously unseen islands (a dozen plus Whimbrel were on one of these islands). New Chicago Marsh was also very slow as was Arzino Ranch. Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:25 PM, 8/29/02 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7U0dwV20202 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:39:58 -0700 Received: from tommoutoux ([64.171.190.204]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:40:03 -0700 From: Tom & Marianne Moutoux <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <000e01c24fbd$c7eff400$ccbeab40@tommoutoux> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Common Murre 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 afternoon around 4pm I spotted what I believe to be a Common Murre in the slough between the bay trail and Hooks Island just east of the Matadero Creek flood control gate. I have never seen this species in this location so far from the ocean. Tom Moutoux Received: from mms3.broadcom.com (mms3.broadcom.com [63.70.210.38]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7U3SkV22611 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:28:46 -0700 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms3.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-3 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7);); Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:28:45 -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 UAA11766 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:28: 46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/SSM) with SMTP id g7U3Sk1Z018431 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:28:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:28:05 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <000e01c24fbd$c7eff400$ccbeab40@tommoutoux> X-WSS-ID: 117039E710739-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] RE: Common Murre 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 about 6:00pm I went out to Byxbee Park and walked to the tide gate at the end of Matadero Creek. I scanned the channel between Hooks Island and Adobe Creek for the murre that was reported by Tom Moutoux, but was only able to see Mike Rogers on his bike. He had ridden out as far as outer Charleston Slough and was on his way back. When we met up, we stopped to chat and I suddenly saw a white speck in the channel up against the cordgrass. Mike got his scope on it and confirmed that it was the COMMON MURRE. We moved down and got close, though fleeting, looks at it floating along the edge of the vegetation on the levee-side of the channel. Mike tried a few photos, but he's not sure how they'll come out. I remained after Mike left to see what the receding tide would bring in. Eventually, the murre ended up sitting on the mud along the edge of the cordgrass, with its wings drooped to the mud. This is a sickly bird and it may not last the night. I checked the estuary afterwards for shorebirds and it had the usual stuff - peeps, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, LONG-BILLED CURLEWS, WHIMBRELS, WILLETS, MARBLED GODWITS, and good numbers of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. Most interesting, though was a juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPER, unusual for this location. Mike Mammoser