From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Nov 12 11:34:09 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gACJVC7s009207 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.stanford.edu [171.64.14.116]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gACJUYke009169 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gACJUVa29637 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [171.66.166.57] (DNab42a639.Stanford.EDU [171.66.166.57]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gACJURJ29593 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:30:28 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:30:25 -0700 From: "Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Santa Clara Co. Birds, October 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]] Bill Bousman writes: October was a slow month after a busy September, and only 2 birds were added to the composite list, bringing the total to 269. A lone WHITE-FACED IBIS was found in outer Charleston Slough on 11 Oct, and apparently was seen the next day at the Baylands, but not after that. A first-winter male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was found at the Calero Reservoir stables on 27 Oct, and was seen by many over the next day or two. We have only two "4's" left to go for the year: Red-throated Loon and Black Rail. It's hard to believe we won't find at least one Red-throated in the remaining seven weeks. Although we have two high-tide periods to go, it's hard to be as confident with Black Rail. We don't know where our winter birds come from, so we don't have a clue as to how their reproduction was this year. Although this composite list countdown to the end of the year is fun, it is artificial in the sense that of the 383 species on the county list, 222 are 1's to 4's, and are by definition seen by someone every year. So the ultimate challenge for the composite list is to find 5's and 6's. There are 59 5's on the county list presently (they get shifted about now and again). Using the last three years as a basis, then we normally record about 76% of the 5's or 45 birds. This brings us to 267. Then, of the 102 6's, we normally find about 19%, or 19 birds, to give us 286 for an "average" composite list. So how are we doing this year? Mike Rogers says it looks bad, maybe the worst ever. Compare the 5's and 6's with some recent tallies: YEAR - - - 5's - - - 6's 1999 - - - 44 - - - - 21 2000 - - - 47 - - - - 19 2001 - - - 44 - - - - 16 2002 - - - 40[42] - - 9 What we see is that we aren't to far off our quota of 5's. We are five short as of 31 Oct, but Pacific Loon and Clay-colored Sparrow were found in the first week in November, so we are really only three short - we have a good chance to make our quota. But probably not for the 6's. There, we are 10 birds short and it is difficult to see how we could possibly make up the difference. So I guess Mike is right. For a complete list of the Santa Clara County Birds, see: South Bay Birders Unlimited (SBBU) http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/birds/ ----------------------------------------- Kendric C. Smith, Ph.D. 927 Mears Court Stanford, CA 94305-1041 (650) 493-7210 (voice or fax) [[email protected]] http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/ ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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]]