From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Dec 18 13:04:27 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBIL11oM020863 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.slac.stanford.edu (smtp.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.80]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBIL0OwO020825 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.smtp.slac.stanford.edu by smtp.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) [[email protected]]; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpserv1.slac.stanford.edusmtp.slac.stanford.edu <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU ([134.79.144.12]) by smtpserv1.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU by SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #37499) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> X-VMS-To: IN%"[[email protected]]" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [SBB] Calero/Almaden 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]] I just had to take advantage of the weather this morning.... I headed for Calero Reservoir, where my main target birds were Pacific Loon, Bald Eagle and Rock Wren. I saw none of them. Instead, I saw Red-necked Grebe, Prairie Falcon and Red Phalarope. When I got to the boat launch about 8:40 or so, Linda Sullivan and Peggy Don had just arrived. Before long, I located the Red-necked Grebe near the shore across from the boat ramp, a bit to the right -- Jim's "1:30" relative to the ramp was about right. It was staying up, and while initially in difficult light, it was eventually disturbed by a boat and moved to the right (west) along the shore, providing nicer looks. There were also dozens of Eared Grebes and several Pied-billed, along with Common Goldeneyes and Buffleheads, in the area west of the boat launch. We were unable to find any Loons. I stuck around for a while after Linda and Peggy left, but with no better luck. By the way, I'd be inclined to call the Red-necked Grebe an immature, but it was too far to really be sure. After that I headed for the Park and the east end of the Reservoir. While I again missed the Rock Wren, I was happy to find 4 Red Phalaropes hugging the outermost shoreline at the east end. In addition, there was an adult Prairie Falcon standing by the that same shoreline. The number of ducks seemed relatively low; they included 11 Ring-necked. I didn't see any unusual Geese, but there weren't all that many big Canadas. A recheck of the boat launch area didn't turn up anything of note (not even the Red-necked Grebe). On a briefer stop at Alamden Lake on my way back, I failed to find the Pacific Loon. I did see a Spotted Sandpiper and just one Common Merganser. (I also didn't spot and Mergansers at Calero. At the Palo Alto CBC countdown, someone speculated that Ann had stolen all of "our" Common Mergansers; but if that's the case, she has done a good job of hiding the loot!) Cheers, Al _______________________________________________ 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]]