From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Nov 13 11:19:03 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gADJFJ7r005916 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gADJEhke005871 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from rahul ([64.169.18.242]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:14:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:50:14 -0800 From: Kris Olson <[[email protected]]> Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Subject: [SBB] Tropical Kingbird continues at CCFS 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]] Birders: This morning the TROPICAL KINGBIRD was refound at CCFS around 9am. It landed very close to my car at the waterbird pond, and Pat Kenney and Roland Kenner were watching it from afar. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE chased the bird away. When Pat and Roland joined me, Pat was able to find it again in a tall eucalyptus tree, not quite at the top. The bird then flew off over McCarthy Road near two large pieces of construction equipment and was barely visible, flycatching from a low curved piece of barbed wire. Peggy Don had joined us by then and saw it, too. Bird locations: 1) Wire fence on the far end of the waterbird/duck pond. There are 2 blue buildings in the distance behind this fence. I think they are part of the dump. 2) Eucaluptus tree just to the right of the right hand blue building. 3) Beyond that tree to the right - McCarthy Ranch Rd. When I left CCFS around 9:45am, I turned left onto McCarthy Ranch Rd. (off of Ranch Rd) just to see if I could find where the bird was. After driving almost to the end of the road (I could see Pat and Roland and their scope as I drove by), the road came to a sharp right. I turned and parked at the bottom of the grade -- next to some big conrete side-of-freeway pieces, near a little channel of water. (There is actually a Bay Trail sign upside down as you turn.) I could see the equipment well but no bird. Then I noticed that Roland was scoping up high again, presumably at the eucalyptus tree. Anyway, you could try to check this area if you see the bird fly over to these fields. The entrance to 880/Oakland is right in the middle of all this, however, and there is no place to park along McCarthy Ranch Rd. Also seen: 1 male CINNAMON TEAL 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER 2 SOOTY FOX SPARROWS 1 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (this plus the prior 2 were by the water channel to the side of the pond, you have to walk a little to see it, faces McCarthy Ranch Rd.) 1 PEREGRINE FALCON, that got chased out by a gull! 1 WHITE-TAILED KITE 3 RED-TAILED HAWKS (one was on the ground with a blinded and red eye; I reported it to the banding trail) 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS 1 Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Greater Yellowlegs Plus lots of Shovelers, gulls, dowitchers, stilts, avocets, sparrows, house finches, etc. On the way home I zipped by the Jubilee Christian Center/Arazino Ranch. In addition to several Burrowing Owls, I saw one Say's Phoebe. Good birding! Kris Olson _______________________________________________ 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]]