Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g59Gwvf22750 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:58:57 -0700 Received: from dialup-209.247.142.204.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.142.204] helo=dgrkv) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17H61p-0004j4-00 for [[email protected]]; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 09:58:57 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 09:58:58 -0700 From: "Don Ganton" <[[email protected]]> To: "South Bay Birds Mailing List" <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [SBB] Alviso EEC 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 Saturday, I took a quick bird walk with my kids at SFBNWR in Alviso. We missed the Barn Owl, but saw at least 21 of the Wilson's Phalaropes and the two Black Skimmers on the island. Across from the EEC building, there was a Northern Mockingbird "wing flashing". A gentleman leading a birding class (I didn't get his name) pointed out a pair of Northern Pintail to me in New Chicago Marsh. Don Ganton [[email protected]] Received: from lawmail4.stanford.edu (lawmail4.Stanford.EDU [171.64.210.173]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g59Kbtf25183 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:37:55 -0700 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.4 June 8, 2000 To: <[[email protected]]> Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: "Tom Grey" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:26:39 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on lawmail4/stanford(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 06/09/2002 01:26:49 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Arastradero etc. 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: A walk along the creek trail at Arastradero Preserve this morning turned up 50 species, including GREEN HERON, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE, HOUSE WREN, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, LAZULI BUNTING, PURPLE FINCH and 4 species of swallows. At the Frenchman's Triangle on the Stanford campus, one of 24 species the other morning was a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, so it looks like they may be nesting here. I was sorry to miss the summer count this year, but it was on account of a trip to the west of Ireland. This was a sightseeing rather than a birding trip, but I took my binocs and a field guide along, and started an Ireland list with 54 species. The highlight was at the Cliffs of Moher, where besides the spectacular scenery, there are thousands of nesting seabirds in late May, Fulmars, Common Murres, and Razorbills. But the highlight turned out to be a bird I saw practically in the parking lot there, a Northern Shrike (or Great Grey Shrike), which I later learned is a major rarity in Ireland. Tom Grey [[email protected]] 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 g59KwKf25469 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 13:58:20 -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]]; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:58:19 -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]]; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:58:19 -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]]; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU by SLACVX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #37499) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:58:13 -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] CCFS 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: At CCFS this morning, the two Blue Grosbeaks (male and female) were still at the south end of the revegetation area (near the levee road). They were staying quietly concealed, but I twice flushed one or both up by walking slowly along the east side of the vegetation. THe first time I flushed two birds of the right size, but had to go around to higher ground on the west side to then get a brief view of the male. The second time, the female popped up into full view for half a minute, and called a few times. (The male may have been a bird I saw flying toward the riparian strip a little earlier.) These observations were both around 9 AM. Unexpected was a male Lawrence's Goldfinch, which Vickie Silvas-Young showed me in-hand, just before she released it (near the southernmost net lane in the reveg. area). She said it was a first-ever capture for CCFS. They haven't yet captured the Grosbeaks! The waterbird pond had 19 Wilson's Phalaropes, 6 Marbled Godwits, one Greater Yellowlegs, and a Common Moorhen. I also saw the brood of 7 Pintail which Mike reported, although I thought these birds were 3/4 size. Does the presence of 6 male Cinnamon Teal here mean that females are nesting out of sight at the pond? Al Eisner 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 g5A0TJf28217 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:29:19 -0700 Received: from pacbell.net ([63.197.0.99]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 17:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 17:31:45 -0700 From: Debbie Wong <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Reply-to: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Subject: [SBB] Black-chinned Sparrow at Monte Bello OSP 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: Yesterday, I joined the bird walk led by Rita Colwell at Monte Bellow OSP. Arriving a bit late, I departed from the parking lot along a different path than the group. I was joined by another late participant, named Don. The two of us caught up with the group in 15 minutes, but along the way alone, we saw a sparrow atop a Coyote bush down a grass-covered slope just a few hundred yards away from the parking lot. Neither of us recognized the bird except to say it was unfamiliar. Don mentioned it looked like a Fox Sparrow except the breast was very plain, with no spots. I noted that the head and face were also very plain and evenly colored a gray, a bit like a Dark- Eyed Junco, but the neck color extended without a sharp line down across the breast and faded into a dull whitish underbelly. There was no streaking on the flanks or breast. I did not note the bill color, as we rush off to catch the group. The back and wings were streaked with brown. Only after consulting with Sibley Guide did I conclude that we had seen a female BLACK-CHINNED SPARROW. It had no black chin nor black on the face near the base of the bill. If there was streaking, denoting a juvenile, it was too subtle for me to see in this sighting. For a few seconds, I had a view of the bird in my Celstron C-5, with good light, perhaps 50-60 feet away. Tadd