Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6RFRrt27111 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:27:53 -0700 Received: from adsl-63-193-245-244.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.193.245.244]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:27:53 -0700 From: Karen DeMello <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Rancho San Antonio County Park Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This morning a CALIFORNIA THRASHER flew right in front of me on the trail, landing on a branch at eye level about 2 feet away. A little later a SPOTTED TOWHEE did the same. What good views! There were dozens of CALIFORNIA QUAIL out, including 2 coveys with young. The 8 tiny, fuzzy, adorable, spotted babies would dart across the trail and then stop and kick the dirt around, just like their elders. Two groups of WILD TURKEY were seen, one by the tennis courts, the other closer to the farm. Lots of mammals too: over a dozen deer, with 1 young buck and 2 spotted fawns (oooh, ahhh); lots of bunnies, one was intent on digging a hole; and a bobcat led me up a hill that I hadn't planned on ascending (I was hoping for a better view, but that didn't happen). Karen DeMello ([[email protected]]) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [63.70.210.59]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6RKmot30564 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:48:50 -0700 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-2 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7)); Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:46:49 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 2a12fa22-b688-11d4-a6a1-00508bfc9626 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 NAA05487 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:48: 48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8/MS01) with SMTP id NAA01973 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:48:48 -0700 ( PDT) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:47:54 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-WSS-ID: 115DD9331091986-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] : Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Friday afternoon, 26 Jul 02, I visited the North Pond of the Palo Alto flood control basin, where I found at least 3 BLUE-WINGED TEAL. One was a male in mostly eclipse plumage, while the other 2 were females. I tried hard to push one of these into a juvenile bird, but after checking references, I couldn't convince myself of it. A few RUDDY DUCKS here were engaging in courtship activity with a female and chasing each other. It might be a good idea to watch this pond for young. A MARSH WREN was carrying food to a location in the cattails and a pair of COMMON MOORHENS had 3 fluffy half-grown young. SAVANNAH SPARROWS flushing from the pickleweed edges are undoubtedly breeding here as well. Two VIRGINIA RAILS called from somewhere in the marsh behind the pond. On Saturday, 27 Jul 02, I returned to the North Pond of the FCB to study the teal. I couldn't find the Blue-wingeds, but I saw a nice full-grown brood of CINNAMON TEAL playing hide-and-seek in the cattails. I was surprised to see 8 REDHEADS in the middle of the pond. Since these birds were nowhere to be found the previous day, I assume that they had just showed up. The 3 males in this group were all in eclipse plumage. An eclipse-plumaged male AMERICAN WIGEON was along the channel at the end of the trail from the parking lot. I assume he wasn't flighted, as he waddled into the vegetation upon my approach, while 2 MALLARDS that were with him took to the air. I then proceeded to the waterbird pond at CCFS. There were a couple hundred dowitchers there, but nothing more unusual among them than some GREATER YELLOWLEGS and WILSON'S PHALAROPES. They say that bill length should not be used as a measure of dowitcher identification, but I saw a bird with the shortest bill I've ever seen on a dowitcher in my life and I'm just going to jump right up and claim it to be a SHORT-BILLED. There were only about 30 WESTERN SANDPIPERS here at the time, but lo-and-behold, amongst them was a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. Interestingly, it was a juvenile bird, which seems a little early (juvenile Westerns haven't even shown up yet). I got good close-up views of this bird along the edge of the pond before it flew off with a few Westerns over the sludge ponds. About 10 minutes later a couple hundred WESTERNS came in - a single LEAST SANDPIPER with them. I couldn't refind the Semi in this group, but they came with 23 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and 3 juvenile WILSON'S PHALAROPES. On the way out, an immature COOPER'S HAWK was stalking the riparian corridor. A stop at the EEC produced a BLACK SKIMMER on the first island (I didn't walk out to check on chicks or eggs). A juvenile LEAST SANDPIPER among the adults scattered about the mudflats of Mallard Slough was the first I've seen this season. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was along the entrance road. Mike Mammoser Received: from smtp.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (SMTP.SLAC.Stanford.EDU [134.79.18.80]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6S1PBt01623 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:25:11 -0700 Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.smtp.slac.stanford.edu by smtp.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpserv1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (SMTPSERV1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU [134.79.18.81]) by smtp.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU ([134.79.144.12]) by smtpserv1.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU by SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #37499) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:25:04 -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] Saturday birds Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Some intermittent Santa Clara Co. birding today.... Coyote Creek (east side) north of Montague Expy was pretty slow, with numbers of even the expected residents relatively low. I did find one female Western Tanager near Sycamore. Later in the morning I visited the south end of Almaden Lake. No Grackle (I didn't look very hard), but there was a family group of seven Common Mergansers, two adult Green Herons, and one Caspian Tern. Along Alamitos Creek just south, I found 5 or 6 Orioles, but no obvious Hooded - at least 4 were identified Bullock's (including a gray fledgeling being fed); the 1 or 2 others were also gray youngsters of undetermined species, but probably also Bullock's. There was also one male Western Tanager. A visit close to the PM high tide to the CCFS waterbird pond turned up at least 70 Wilson's Phalaropes (no Red-Necked), 5 Semipalmated Plovers, and at least 6 Greater Yellowlegs. A group of up to 5 calling Lesser Yellowlegs flew over toward the east. There were about 500 peeps, but I was unable to find anything except adult Westerns. A bit later at Spreckles and State Streets in Alviso there were about 65 Wilson's Phalaropes and 16 Greater Yellowlegs, Finally, a belated report from the previous Saturday: I hadn't made it over to San Antonio Valley in the apring, so I made a summer visit, not expected or finding much. Of note were two good-sized flocks of Lawrence's Goldfinches: 15 to 18 at a remnant pond near mile marker 10.59 (I'm not sure of the last digit) east of Mount Hamilton; and another 17 feeding in the bed of the receded pond 1/2 mile east of San Antonio junction. That pond also had a female Wood Duck with 4 small ducklings (surely a different brood than the one Les had reported a few weeks earlier). Al Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6S2qHt02562 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:52:17 -0700 Received: from rahul ([64.169.18.242]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:49:55 -0700 From: Kris Olson <[[email protected]]> To: Peninsula-Birding <[[email protected]]>, South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Dumbarton Bridge birding (West end, North side) Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello Birders, Late this afternoon (5-7:30pm) my dad and I went to the Ravenswood preserve that is on the west end of the Dumbarton bridge, north side (thanks to Ron Thorn for providing inspiration and directions). High tide was about 4:30pm there. We immediately found two SNOWY PLOVERS as we walked onto the levee, by the wooden gate that controls water levels. Other birds: BLACK SKIMMERS, 2 adults and one brownish juvenile FORSTERS TERNS - 60+ LEAST TERNS - 2 BLACK-NECKED STILTS SNOWY AND GREAT EGRETS DOWTICHERS - 11 or so WILLETS - 50 WILSON PHALAROPES - 4 or 5 WESTERN SANDPIPERS AND LEAST SANDPIPERS - hundreds SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS - 40 or so BARN SWALLOWS Kris Olson Menlo Park Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6S6jft05091 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:45:42 -0700 Received: from acer ([12.81.1.75]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020728064535.EMYZ2117.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@acer>; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 06:45:35 +0000 Message-ID: <001501c23602$a7c909c0$4b01510c@acer> From: "John Mariani" <[[email protected]]> To: "South-bay-birds" <[[email protected]]> Cc: "Jim Danzenbaker" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:47:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Subject: [SBB] Swainson's Hawk at Arzino Ranch in Alviso Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Howdy South-bay-birders, Jim Danzenbaker is presently offline so I'm conveying a message from him. Today, from 3:00-3:15pm, he saw an immature SWAINSON'S HAWK at the Arzino Ranch, visible from the northeast corner of the Jubilee Center parking area. From his message it sounds like it was still there when he left, and may still be hanging out in the open fields north of the Jubilee Center. John Mariani [[email protected]] www.birdswest.com