From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Dec 18 21:00:33 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBJ4w5oL028299 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:58:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBJ4vDwO028235 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from c363625c (12-234-122-134.client.attbi.com[12.234.122.134]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2002121904571205200fj94ve>; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 04:57:12 +0000 Message-ID: <003601c2a71b$5aa1bd60$[[email protected]]> From: "Peggy L. Don" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:59:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1b4+ cc: HVEEP <[[email protected]]> cc: "Patricia L. Kenny" <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Palo Alto CBC at Hidden Villa 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id gBJ4w5oL028299 SBBers: Pat Kenny, Roland Kenner, and I covered Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills for the Palo Alto CBC Monday, December 16, 2002. Needless to say the birding was very challenging in less than ideal conditions. We started in the agricultural fields along Moody Road. There were very few birds in the fields. Among them were both crowned sparrows, juncos, SONG SPARROW, HOUSE FINCH, CALIFORNIA TOWHEE, NUTTALL'S WOODPECKER, RED-TAILED HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL. From there we walked along the Nature Trail to the vegetable garden where we refound the WHITE-THROATED SPARROW which we had seen the previous Wednesday. There were also GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWs, 2 FOX SPARROWs, and a large flock of juncos. Then we birded along the road back to the parking area. After lunch we birded along the Adobe Creek Trail to a quarter mile past the Grapevine Trail hoping for a Winter Wren. The placid creek which we had seen Wednesday was now raging and there was a dearth of bird activity. Suddenly very near the junction we had, for us, a treasure-trove of birds - 3 VARIED THRUSHes, 2 HERMIT THRUSHes, a RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, SPOTTED TOWHEE, and BEWICK'S WREN. Hooray! We then hiked up the Grapevine Trail where we heard a CALIFORNIA THRASHER and a HAIRY WOODPECKER and came down via the Hostel Trail. The most numerous species of the day was the AMERICAN ROBIN. Among the species with a single representative were CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. It was interesting that we saw more VARIED THRUSHes (7) and HERMIT THRUSHes (3) than some of the usual woodland birds. In total we hiked about 5 miles and birded 7 hours to pick up 31 species. That's an average of 6 species a mile and a little more than 4 species an hour. The weather wasn't conducive to great birding; but, hey, we got lots of exercise in a beautiful setting, had great views and had a marvelous time. Peggy Don Complete list: RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (1), RED-TAILED HAWK (2), AMERICAN KESTREL (1), NUTTALL'S WOODPECKER (2), HAIRY WOODPECKER (1), NORTHERN FLICKER (2), BLACK PHOEBE (2), STELLER'S JAY (6), WESTERN SCRUB-JAY (10), COMMON RAVEN (2), CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE (1), OAK TITMOUSE (2), BUSHTIT(15), BEWICK'S WREN (3), RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (1), HERMIT THRUSH (3), AMERICAN ROBIN (52), VARIED THRUSH (7), WRENTIT (4), CALIFORNIA THRASHER (1), YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (1), SPOTTED TOWHEE (3), CALIFORNIA TOWHEE (11), FOX SPARROW (2), SONG SPARROW (4), GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW (29), WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (8), WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (1), DARK-EYED JUNCO (30), HOUSE FINCH (10, LESSER GOLDFINCH (1) _______________________________________________ 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]]