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Subject: [SBB] Uvas Creek Field Trip 6/23/02
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On the Uvas Creek field trip of Sunday, June 23, I had the chance to use 
Bob's classic line: "For those who don't know me, I'm Bob Reiling.  For those 
who DO know me, I'm Frank Vanslager!"  (Bob was down south attending at the 
birth of a grandchild.)

For a very small group, we were still able to come up with 53 species.  For 
the uncommon birds, the most common seemed to be the Green Heron, with 
probably more than 10 sightings ... including three flying at once, and one 
perched in a nearby tree.  Band-tailed Pigeons were abundant.  We had a 
number of families with young: Black-headed Grosbeaks, Spotted Towhees, Song 
Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos, a female Common Merganser with two ducklings, an 
American Kestrel pair with two fledged young, and in the Questar I saw a 
Lesser Goldfinch seeming to feed a young Brown-headed Cowbird.  We also had 
scope views of male Hooded Orioles, Red-shouldered hawks, and a colorful, 
singing male Purple finch.

Frank Vanslager