From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Nov 9 13:41:34 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA9Ldg7r021259 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:39:42 -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 gA9Lcnke021222 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:38:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.7c.30fbd2a0 (4362) for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:38:44 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:38:43 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] Wood Ducks at Campbell Ponds 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 afternoon all. Thought I would run over to Oka and see if the storm blew in any goodies...... First I drove to the Dell Ave entrance of Los Gatos Creek Park and scoped pond #1. Storm damage has further eroded the small islands. Lots of (100) DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, LESSER SCAUP, GULLS, COOTS and PIED-BILLED GREBES. I then drove to the Oka Lane entrance and lots of YELLOW-RUMPS were in the Euc and Pepper trees. A GREEN HERON was sitting quietly in the ponds weeds. Walking towards the largest pond, there was a BLACK-PHOEBE flycatching. In the largest ponds were 6 Male HOODED MERGANSERS and 4 females, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, RUDDY DUCKS, MALLARDS, RING-NECKED DUCKS, GADWALLS and AMERICAN WIGEONS, COOTS and PIED-BILLED GREBES. I then walked along the path with Los Gatos Creek to my left and the freeway to my right. In the fennel patch were SONG, LINCOLN, WHITE & GOLD CROWNED SPARROWS. BUSHTITS were flitting in and out of the fennel. Two BEWICK'S WRENS popped up. Lots of LESSER GOLDFINCH and HOUSE FINCH. A beautiful male ANNA'S HUMMER sat in the small bush where I was standing. Walking along towards "Snipe Island" a NUTTALL'S WOODPECKER was seen as well as lots of HOUSE, White and Gold-crowned Sparrows. I checked the island for snipe and found a record number of 5 WILSON'S SNIPE (3 on the first island, 1 on the smallest and two on the last island). Lots of Mallards, Coots and Pied-billed Grebes. A MOCKINGBIRD flew into the berry patch as I stopped to talk to another birder. This birder mentioned that on Wednesday a Merlin and Wood Ducks were spotted. Thinking hard were the Wood Ducks would be...I decided I needed to cross the bridge and go to Campbell Pond 3. Crossing the bridge a GREAT BLUE HERON was foraging down below. When I got to Campbell Ponds 3 I could see American Wigeons and Mallards, so I decided to walk in between ponds 2 and 3. As I rounded pond 3 in flew 3 male WOOD DUCKS and 1 female. Staying around looking for more Wood Ducks I spotted another female. Wood Ducks are a great duck for this park. Walking around pond 3 back to the bridge were 2 GREAT EGRETS, 1 SNOWY EGRET and 5 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS in their usual place in the reeds. Also in this pond were American Wigeons, Coots, Mallards, Ruddy Ducks, Pied-billed Grebe. In checking the reeds and trees across the ponds I spotted both the male and female BELTED-KINGFISHERS. I should note that in the filtering ponds along Dell Avenue were at least 8 male Bufflehead. Crossing the bridge I saw an adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWK sitting in the Sycamore Tree. I decided to check the Kirk Dam for birds, so I walked back towards the Dam spotting 20 CEDAR WAXWINGS, Lesser Goldfinch, Yellow-rumped Warblers and 2 CA TOWHEES. 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]]