From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Nov 6 15:43:32 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA6Nf67s000883 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m04.mx.aol.com (imo-m04.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.7]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA6Necke000848 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:40:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.d3.14a76fa6 (3988) for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:40:16 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:40:16 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1b4+ Subject: [SBB] Sanborn - Skyline County Park 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I decided to check out Sanborn - Skyline County Park in hopes of finding recently reported rare birds (rare in the county). We spent most of the morning along the Skyline portion of the park as we figured that this was where we were most likely to find the "good" birds. Unfortunately, it was windy and the best bird seen there was a single PURPLE FINCH, we did however spot a basic plumaged Roland Kenner and Pat Kenny trying for the same birds (I think their efforts were more productive than ours). We then decided to make a quick stop in the lower parking lot of the park. "This was a good thing" for as soon as we pulled into the center parking lot we were immediately surrounded by hundreds of birds fleeing for the nearest tree. Over the next two hours the area between the lower and middle parking lots was a scene of feverish activity as AMERICAN ROBINS, DARK-EYED JUNCOS and STELLER'S JAYS flew from the trees to the ground and back again as they alternately fed and fled. In the trees they were joined by a large mixed flock of LESSER GOLDFINCHES, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES, PINE SISKINS, and PYGMY NUTHATCHES. We also had two sightings of adult, male VARIED THRUSH feeding in the grass with the AMRO. A RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET kindly auditioned a portion of his long complicated song for us. GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS and a SPOTTED TOWHEE were a bit standoffish while a couple AMERICAN CROWS scared the whatever out of all of the other birds each time they flew. Hunger finally forced our ultimate departure. Take care, Bob Reiling, 3:22 PM, 11/6/02 _______________________________________________ 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]]