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 g73KvAV13155 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 13:57:10 -0700 Received: from rahul ([64.169.18.242]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 13:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 13:57:11 -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] Parkway Lakes, Almaden Lake, CCFS 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 I caught up with Dave Quady, who had gone earlier to Loma Prieta, to spend some time birding in Santa Clara County. Nothing earthshaking to report, but here are the highlights. Parkway Lakes ------------------ 2 Great-tailed Grackles -- flying into a large Cottonwood near Metcalfe and Monterey 1 Osprey consuming a large fish 1 Red-tailed Hawk chasing Osprey 7 Wild Turkeys Almaden Lake and Los Alamitos Creek -------------------------------------------- Target here was the Nutmeg Mannikin. Dave saw 3 adults, I saw one -- in the marsh area just south of the bridge over Mazonne Drive. 7 Common Mergansers swimming upstream, under and on top of the water, then sunning on a concrete slab over the creek 1 Spotted Sandpiper on sandbar in lake 1 Caspian Tern Several Bullocks Orioles feeding in blackberries Several Oak Titmice 2 White-breasted Nuthatches CCFS (1:30-2:30pm) ------------------------ 77 Dowitchers, Long-billed by coloring and call 100 or so American Avocets, including 2 young 20-30 Black-necked Stilts 10 Western Sandpipers 1 Wilson's Phalarope 1 Moorhen Red-tailed Hawk to scare birds 1 Greater Yellowlegs (I came to CCFS Wednesday AM with Chris Macintosh for an hour or so, 9-10AM. We saw many more Dowitchers, a hundred or so sandpipers sleeping in the middle of the sandbar, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 4 Greater Yellowlegs, immature and adult Green Heron; Al Eisner was also there and saw a Lesser Yellowlegs.) Kris Olson Menlo Park [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] Received: from mms1.broadcom.com (mms1.broadcom.com [63.70.210.58]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g73MelV14305 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:40:47 -0700 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-1 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7)); Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:40:19 -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 PAA10287 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:40:46 -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 PAA21445 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:40:46 -0700 ( PDT) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:35:35 -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: 1152845945799-01-01 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, 3 Aug 02, I started at the CCFS Waterbird Pond. Although there were a few hundred DOWITCHERS, I found nothing earthshaking. Three peeps (2 LEAST and 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER) was the extent of the calidrid presence. From there I stopped at State and Spreckles, noting 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS among a larger number of GREATERS. At Crittenden Marsh the water level was down quite a bit, with only a thin stretch along the salt pond edge of the marsh. The only group of birds was a small flock of 14 peeps (mixed LEAST and WESTERN SANDPIPERS) that included a juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. The boardwalk across salt pond A2E had 61 LEAST TERNS arrayed along it. Three female-type GREEN-WINGED TEAL were on Stevens Creek next to the marsh. Mike Mammoser