From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Dec 17 16:13:06 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBI07uoM006958 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mms1.broadcom.com (mms1.broadcom.com [63.70.210.58]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBI07PwO006917 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS1 SMTP Relay (MMS v5.5.0)); Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:06:56 -0700 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 QAA14264 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:07: 17 -0800 (PST) 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 gBI07H1Z013735 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:07:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:05:55 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal X-WSS-ID: 11E163AA1145416-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] : X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4+ Precedence: list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] On Sunday, 15 Dec 02, I participated in the San Jose CBC, starting out at Lake Cunningham. There was no sign of the Lesser Black-backed Gull this year, but I did have 31 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS and 1 BARN SWALLOW foraging over the lake. >From there, I went to CCFS. Up at the "reach" area, near the waterbird pond, there was nothing much unusual. I did have 2 COMMON MOORHENS at the tidal pond north of A18, and the salt pond itself had the usual 426 EARED GREBES. In the riparian corridor, near the trailer, I had 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, one banded and one not. Later, Mike Rogers and I went into the San Jose Water Pollution Control Plant sludge ponds, where we had a large flock of roosting gulls that included just about every expected species (CALIFORNIA, RING-BILLED, MEW, HERRING, THAYER'S, WESTERN, GLAUCOUS-WINGED). On Monday, 16 Dec 02, it was time for the Palo Alto CBC. The rain had mercifully stopped and I was able to walk around the Sunnyvale sewage ponds without trouble. I quickly had 5 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS foraging over the channel adjacent to the Lockheed pond. The duck numbers seemed somewhat low from previous weeks, but the species diversity was still there. Low numbers included 638 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 489 RUDDY DUCKS, 37 AMERICAN WIGEON, 79 GADWALL, and 4 NORTHERN PINTAILS. Among over 100 CANVASBACK were 13 REDHEADS. Scaup were evenly split between LESSER (28) and GREATER (29). Gulls were also pretty scarce this day with only 11 HERRING, 6 GLAUCOUS-WINGED, 5 CALIFORNIA, and 25 unidentified. I did have 78 BONAPARTE'S over salt pond A3W, though. I had 3 VIRGINIA RAILS calling from the marshy channel near the Lockheed property, and a small pond there had 27 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS roosting. Between the sewage pond and A3W I had 7 BROWN PELICANS and 45 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS. Scoping A3W, I found 19 WESTERN GREBES and 7 CLARK'S GREBES. The 2 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS here may have been the only ones on the count. Surprising were large numbers of PIED-BILLED GREBES foraging together in flocks. Eleven FORSTER'S TERNS were over the salt pond as well. Walking around the old landfill back at the parking lot, I had 20 WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS foraging low over my head. An immature SHARP-SHINNED HAWK burst out of the coyote brush alongside the marsh. A single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER had joined the many YELLOW-RUMPEDS at the fennel patch. After finishing my section, I decided to poach around a little. At Charleston Slough I counted 21 BLACK SKIMMERS. I searched in vain for a Long-tailed Duck among the thousands of RUDDYs on salt pond A1. The male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was on Shoreline Lake. A MERLIN flew over hwy 101 near Rengstorff. On the golf course pond at the end of Geng Road I had 7 HOODED MERGANSERS. At the end of the day I walked up the hill at Byxbee Park to look for Short-eared Owl, but found instead a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in with the CANADAS. Mike Mammoser _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. 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