From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Nov 3 17:26:22 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA41OX7r005823 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA41Nuke005783 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.ac.3052f1b7 (17079) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:23:47 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:23:46 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10637 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1b4+ Subject: [SBB] Sunday Birding..... X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4+ Precedence: list Cc: South Bay Birding <[[email protected]]> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: [[email protected]] Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Good evening all.... After reading John Mariani's post on Calero I thought I would go one more time to find the Rock Wren.... After looking around a bit I saw the RockWren and then spotted 5 of the most beautiful Western Bluebirds. American as well as Lesser Goldfinch. Wild Turkeys everywhere. Ruby Crowned Kinglets, Say's Phoebe, House Finch, Nuttall's and a Prairie Falcon added to my daily list. All the ducks John reported except for the Hooded Merganser.....Dunlin, Western and Least Sandpipers, Dowitchers, Black-necked Stilts, Pipits and one Wilson's Snipe....7 White Pelicans rounded off the rest of my daily list. Oops...Northern Harrier, Kestrel and Red-tailed Hawks were more additions. While at Calero I met Al (sorry Al I can't remember your last name) a local birder to Oka Ponds and he mentioned that Oka had Hooded Mergansers....so.......... Off to Oka.....entered through the Oka Lane entrance and I could see the Yellow-rumped Warblers flying about the Pepper and Euc trees. Walking towards the large pond the resident Mockingbird was protecting his new batch of berries. At the largest ponds where Ring-necked Ducks, 4 male Hooded Mergansers, Bufflehead, Ruddy Ducks, American Wigeons and Mallards. Crossing the bridge and checking out Campbell Pond # 3 on the right side, there were Lesser Scaup, American Wigeons, Gadwalls, Mallards and Ruddy Ducks. Walking down towards Campbell's Pond #1 (largest ponds) lots of Coots, Gulls and Double-crested Cormorants. Snowy and Great Egrets were along the edge, as well as a Great Blue Heron. On the way out, a Black-crowned Night Heron was in the channel. I could hear a Nuttall's and went to check it out. I found both a male and female Nuttall's in the Euc tree along the fence with their head feathers raised! They were quite upset. I kept looking at the top of the trees and there was a beautiful Red-breasted Sapsucker! I watched that bird (first of the season) for a while. I checked out the Northern Flicker as it was time to go..... Wishing you all good birding and my best regards, Linda Sullivan _______________________________________________ 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]]