Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g74IBDV31906 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:11:13 -0700 Received: from pool0264.cvx25-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.217.9]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17bPqR-0007Cn-00 for [[email protected]]; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:11:12 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:04:36 -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] Sanderling and Snipe 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: Reporting on a few shorebird sightings this morning, Sunday, August 4. At the mostly dried up Crittenden Marsh in Mountain View at about 7:30 am, I looked for Mike's Baird's Sandpiper without success. However, with the 34 Semipalmated Plovers in the middle of the "pond", there was one molting adult SANDERLING (a new county bird for me). Also, two Western Sandpipers and one Long-billed Curlew. Several LEAAST TERNs and loads of California Gulls and some White Pelicans fed in the next pond to the west. At the CCRS shorebird pond, I was very surprised to see a COMMON SNIPE near one of the loafing groups of Long-billed Dowitchers. Mike Rogers later found the Common Snipe in with one of the groups of Dowitchers. Also present at the pond was one juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER with the 100 or Western Sandpipers and a few LEAST SANDPIPERs. There were numerous "billed blobitchers" which appeared to all be Long-billed Dowitchers. Good birding! Jim Danzenbaker San Jose, CA 408-264-7582 (408-ANI-SKUA) [[email protected]] Falcon's Eye Guiding Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g74KeCV01523 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:40:12 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v33.5.) id t.9e.2a5c7ed1 (4210) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 16:40:06 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 16:40:06 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10512 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] Lake Almaden 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: Good Afternoon All.... Took a quick run out to Lake Almaden to check on some nests. The Pied-billed Grebe that I saw on Wednesday with 5 nestlings, now only has 3......I would say that on Wednesday at least two were only a day old. Did see the Nutmeg Mannikins bringing nesting material to an Oak Tree by the picnic area that has the orange cement tables. They seem to favor Oak Tree to place their nests in. On the sandbar were 3 Dowitchers, 1 Caspian Tern, 2 Killdeer, Snowy and Great Egret and some Gulls. In the lake was a Western Grebe. Over head was a magnificent Osprey (it was there on Wednesday too). Lots of great activity at the Rookery....Snowy and Great Egrets all over, as well as Green and Black-crown Night Herons. Just so much fun to watch the Black-crown Night Herons learn how to hunt for food and test its wings. The Bullock's Orioles are gorging themselves on berries in the creek by the bridge. A Mockingbird fledgling was being fed berries by its parent. It was great to watch 2 CA Thrashers searching for food. Wishing you all good birding and my best regards, Linda Sullivan Received: from highstream.net (mail.highstream.net [65.214.41.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g74Kj2V01657 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:45:02 -0700 Received: from default [68.130.9.236] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id A248CB8E0128; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:44:56 -0400 Message-ID: <042601c23bf7$71ccc000$c7622a3f@default> Reply-To: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> To: "south bay birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:42:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Note: This E-mail was scanned for spam. 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] Crittenden Marsh 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: Pat Kenny and I went out to Crittenden Marsh and on to the mouth of Stevens Creek this morning. The idea was to get to the mouth an hour or two before high tide, which we did, but there wasn't much there. We did see a flock of 14 BROWN PELICANs fly into A2W on the other side of Steven's Creek. On the way back, about 10:00 am, we saw a juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER at the NE corner of Crittenden Marsh. It was in and near the little water that is there in a mixed flock of WESTERN and LEAST SANDPIPERs and SEMIPALMATED PLOVERs. It was the same size as nearby SEMIPALMATED PLOVERs and bigger than the WESTERNs, appearing short legged, wings extending well past the tail, scaly looking back with no rufous markings, supercilium off-white, buffy all across the breast with fine streaks but no spots, bill the width of the head, perhaps barely decurved but less so than the relatively much larger bills on WESTERNs, overall coloration warmer than shown in Sibleys. A flock of 30-odd LEAST TERNs were feeding right in the SW corner of A2E at the corner of the levees, providing wonderful views and calls. File under might have been: early on, about 8:00 am, we saw a single, unidentified peep, slightly but distinctly larger than the nearby SEMIPALMATED PLOVERs, out in the dry part of Crittenden Marsh. It flew off to parts unknown, and we went on our way. I mention this only because Jim Danzenbaker reported a SANDERLING at the same place shortly before at 7:30. Roland