From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Dec 17 08:02:47 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBHG06oN000148 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBHFxawO000109 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:59:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.2 #46498) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:59:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:59:34 -0800 (PST) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii cc: [[email protected]] 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]] Folks: I covered the Arzino Ranch, the San Jose-Santa Clara WPCP sludge ponds, and a portion of Coyote Creek below Hwy 237 to include the waterbird ponds on Sunday, 12/15/2002, for the San Jose CBC. Coyote Creek had overflowed into the overflow channel on Saturday, apparently, but much of the creekside was navigable. The best bird here was a GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET by the most upstream net. Of five TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS, the three observed closely were banded. The sludge ponds had a nice immature PEREGRINE FALCON and a SPOTTED SANDPIPER. The fields at the Arzino Ranch eventually yielded a single BURROWING OWL. Yesterday, 12/16/2002, I covered Shoreline, Charleston Slough, Salt Ponds A1 and A2W, and the Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh for the Palo Alto CBC. Two adult BROWN PELICANS were on the Bay side of A1 (probably the same birds were seen a couple of hours later on A1 near Shoreline), an immature was on Shoreline Lake, and an adult and immature were in the outer part of A2W. An adult PEREGRINE FALCON was in the outer part of A1 as was a male REDHEAD with a bad wing. Mid-morning I counted 19 BLACK SKIMMERS on the small island in the northwest corner of A1 (Mike Mammoser said there were 21 later at Charleston Slough, so I don't know where the other two were in the morning). I found both the male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and the male hybrid BARROW'S x COMMON GOLDENEYE on Shoreline Lake. The latter was paired with an apparent female Common Goldeneye. Both were the same as described in the third week of November. A couple of small flocks of pale gray, mid-sized shorebirds flew by as I walked along A2W. The second flock of seven birds were SANDERING, unusual down here. I was late for the uncovering of the Stevens Creek mouth (and the west side is not as close as the east side) and I completely missed Red Knots--Mike Rogers was out there at the correct time, however. I spent some time in the late afternoon at the Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh, when it finally uncovered, but the golden-plover was elsewhere (Rich Jeffers saw it in Crittenden in the morning.) The last bird of the day was a BURROWING OWL at Shoreline on mound 1. Bill _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]