Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.19.30]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DI7pV19984 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:07:51 -0700 Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-4n) id LAA26110 for [[email protected]]; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:07:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Baylands Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: All, Al Eisner and I worked the fennel and ranger station trees at the Palo Alto Baylands this morning. Plenty (9+) YELLOW WARBLERS but not much else. The usual shorebirds were across the way in the yacht harbor, although a fly-by of four vocal RED-NECKED PHALAROPES was unusual for this location. Mike Rogers Received: from highstream.net (mail.highstream.net [65.214.41.101]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DKchV22147 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:38:43 -0700 Received: from default [68.130.95.31] by highstream.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id AC6B169D00EE; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:36:59 -0400 Message-ID: <035101c25b65$16edc160$935f8244@default> Reply-To: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> From: "Roland Kenner" <[[email protected]]> To: "south bay birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:32:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Note: This E-mail was scanned for spam. X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.98b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Subject: [SBB] CCFS, New Chicago Marsh Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This morning Pat Kenny and I started out at CCFS. There were numerous YELLOW WARBLERs, one WILSON'S WARBLER, one TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, one WARBLING VIREO, and a few WESTERN TANAGERs and WESTERN FLYCATCHERs (one of which called and identified itself as a PACIFIC). A dark morph adult RED TAILED HAWK was in a tree near the creek and an immature COOPER'S HAWK perched on the fence next to the road on our way out. We went to Alviso and walked out the railroad tracks through New Chicago Marsh. A PECTORAL SANDPIPER was near the beginning of the EEC entrance road. The molting adult PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER was in its usual spot on the EEC side of the tracks. A PEREGRINE FALCON made a high pass over as we walked out the tracks. There were three juvenile SANDERLINGs in the impoundment on the far side of the mainline tracks across from the junction: visible black primary tips, black arc at the bend of the folded wing, white below, black and white pattern on the back, very white faced, short black bill, black legs, much bigger than nearby Least Sandpipers. We didn't see the birds fly. Roland Kenner Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.64.14.116]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DLJaV22835 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:19:36 -0700 Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DLJXd05887 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [171.66.164.55] (DNab42a437.Stanford.EDU [171.66.164.55]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DLJUq05871 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [[email protected]] Message-Id: Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:19:21 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: "Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: [SBB] Special Ornithology Presentation Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Special Ornithology Presentation Old World Bird Migration and Conservation at Eilat, Israel by Dr. Reuven Yosef Director, International Birding & Research Center, Eilat 7:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 19 Lucy Stern Community Center 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Dr. Reuven Yosef, renowned Israeli ornithologist and head of Eilat's International Birding & Research Center, will present a fascinating look at bird migration between Africa and Eurasia. For millennia, the salt marshes bordering the Red Sea near Eilat have been the crucial stopover point for billions of birds on their biannual migrations. Decades of untrammeled development have destroyed much of this once fertile habitat, threatening the existence of these birds that play such a crucial role in Eurasia's entire ecosystem. Dr Yosef has begun to restore a natural balance by, among other things, reclaiming a trash dump as a bird sanctuary. For his vision and courage in establishing this sanctuary for migrating birds in one of Israel's most rapidly developing areas, he was selected as an Associate Laureate in the 2000 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. Refreshments provided. Donations encouraged to benefit the efforts of the IBRCE. Admission free. Space limited. Call Anita at (650) 323-9040 ----------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------ Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DNVNV24846 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:31:23 -0700 Received: from user-1120f84.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.61.4] helo=sherry) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17pzty-0000gX-00; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:31:06 -0700 Message-ID: <005a01c25b7e$4e876c20$6401a8c0@sherry> From: "Sherry Hudson" <[[email protected]]> To: "Jeffers, Richard" <[[email protected]]>, "South-bay-birds \(E-mail\)" <[[email protected]]> References: <[[email protected]] qcorp.net> Subject: Re: [SBB] Burrowing Owl in residential Santa Clara Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:35:55 -0700 Organization: SFBBO MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Interesting! I saw a Burrowing Owl nearby on the early morning of August 29th, hanging out in the grass of the county park at the corner of Saratoga and Los Padres in Santa Clara. I thought that was a strange place as well. -Sherry Hudson Santa Clara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffers, Richard" <[[email protected]]> To: "South-bay-birds (E-mail)" <[[email protected]]> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: [SBB] Burrowing Owl in residential Santa Clara > A friend of mine had a Burrowing Owl perch on his front yard fence for some period of time on September 10. He lives near the intersection of Pruneridge and Saratoga Ave. His wife took some video of it, and he emailed me a link to a still from the video. Pretty strange place for a Burrowing Owl. Cheers, > > Richard > _______________________________________________ > south-bay-birds mailing list | [[email protected]] > Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/listinfo/south-bay-birds > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [63.70.210.59]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8E241V27454 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:04:01 -0700 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS-2 SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7);); Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:01:48 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 2a12fa22-b688-11d4-a6a1-00508bfc9626 Received: from mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com [10.20.128.21]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA07003 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:04: 00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/SSM) with SMTP id g8E2401Z022088 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:04:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:03:46 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-WSS-ID: 119C4706608259-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] : Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I paid a visit to the Sunnyvale fennel patch this afternoon, 13 Sep 02. I pished up 17 YELLOW WARBLERS, 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, a WILSON'S WARBLER, and 3 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS. At least 4 LESSER YELLOWLEGS were on the Lockheed pond, and a single CLIFF SWALLOW was foraging with the BARNS. Mike Mammoser Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8EHQFV05059 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:26:15 -0700 Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.1 #46498) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:26:11 -0700 (PDT) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Cc: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Subject: [SBB] Phalarope Habitat Preference Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Folks: Nancy Teater asked about phalaropes in the South Bay: "After I enjoyed watching Wilson's Phalaropes doing their spinning act in Alviso recently, I wondered why we never see them at the Palo Alto/Mountain View Baylands. Lack of non-tidal shallow water?" It's a good question, although on rare occasions we do find both phalaropes over in Palo Alto and Mountain View. The first part of the answer is that the birds seen in Sunnyvale and Alviso are all on non-tidal areas, so there is no difference in this respect with Palo Alto and Mountain View non-tidal areas. I guess the ultimate answer is they are where they are because there are good things to eat. But sometimes they are in the more salty evaporation ponds, as north of the Alviso Marina, and sometimes large flocks are in the Sunnyvale WPCP oxidation ponds, which are fresh water. Bill Received: from caduceus.jf.intel.com (fmr06.intel.com [134.134.136.7]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8EJ6NV06314 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:06:23 -0700 Received: from talaria.jf.intel.com (talaria.jf.intel.com [10.7.209.7]) by caduceus.jf.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: outer.mc,v 1.50 2002/08/30 20:04:57 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id g8EJ4AE07141 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 19:04:10 GMT Received: from orsmsxvs040.jf.intel.com (orsmsxvs040.jf.intel.com [192.168.65.206]) by talaria.jf.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: inner.mc,v 1.24 2002/08/30 20:04:21 dmccart Exp $) with SMTP id g8EIwll23469 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:58:47 GMT Received: from orsmsx26.jf.intel.com ([192.168.65.26]) by orsmsxvs040.jf.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002091412083809067 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:08:38 -0700 Received: by orsmsx26.jf.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:06:18 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]. com> From: "Tiwari, Vivek" <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:06:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: [SBB] Sat. CCFS & Willow Flycatchers Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Spent an hour at CCFS today 10:30-11:30AM around the Eucalyptus north of the trailer. Hopping with YELLOW FLYCATCHERs (did not try to get a count, they were everywhere). A WESTERN TANAGER. 2 VAUX's SWIFTs flying high. A CEDAR WAXWING high in a tree and another calling from somewhere. Also had the opportunity to field test the info provided by Mike, Les, Bob and Linda on id'ing Willow Flycatchers. The upshot of it is that the eye-ring is a safe bet for distinguishing from Western Flycatcher. If you can see enough of a eye-ring to try and gauge its exact shape, its probably not a Willow Flycatcher, which should have a very inconspicuous eye-ring. There is a greater risk of confusing a Willow Flycatcher with a Wood-Pewee. Today I had 3 WESTERN/PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHERs and a WILLOW FLYCATCHER. The latter was distinctly brownish on the upperparts (as opposed to the distinct greenish tones on the WESTERNs), a very faint and uniform eye-ring (prominent and almond shaped in WESTERN). Whitish throat and slightly darker sides of the breast, broad buffy wingbars, and a bright orange-yellow lower mandible all the way thru the tip is what I used to distinguish from a Wood-Pewee. Vivek [[email protected]] Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8EMGWV08587 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:16:32 -0700 Received: from sdn-ar-014casfrmp208.dialsprint.net ([158.252.218.210] helo=earthlink.net) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17qLDG-0004kd-00 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:16:27 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:15:39 -0700 From: Matthew Dodder <[[email protected]]> Reply-To: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] PAAS fieldt trip: Crittenden Marsh Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: All, This morning I led my Palo Alto Adult School Birding group to Crittenden Marsh via the Shoreline Park Kite flying area. This was our first trip of the term and our first visit to this location. Shorebirds were in good numbers during the low tide on the mud flats with many opportunities to compare similar species such as Western and Least Sandpipers, Whimbrel and Long-billed Curlew as well as Semipalmated Plover and Killdeer. The Burrowing Owl area near the kite flyers was productive with two birds being seen easily. (The nearby construction was an unexpected and disturbing sight, however. I fear this locally uncommon habitat is already too small for the birds. Hopefully the work will not encroach any further on this species' fragile community. Does anybody know what is going on in this area?) As hoped for, an adult Peregrine Falcon appeared high atop one of the power lines as well as an immature Red-tailed Hawk and a Northern Harrier hunting over the marsh. The best birds of the day would have to be the Sora and Virginia Rails though. Joan Leighton and Anne Creevy discovered these secretive birds near the foot bridge and we all got to enjoy rare, extended looks at these wonderful birds. Later we heard and saw two more Virginia Rails. What a morning! Matthew Dodder http://www.birdguy.net Full list: Pied-billed Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Ring-necked Pheasant Virginia Rail Sora American Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper California Gull Forster's Tern Rock Dove Mourning Dove Burrowing Owl Anna's Hummingbird Black Phoebe Barn Swallow Western Scrub Jay American Crow Common Raven Bushtit Marsh Wren Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Common Yellowthroat Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.19.30]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8F1MBV10988 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:22:11 -0700 Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-4n) id SAA09864 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:22:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Guadalupe River, Alviso Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: All, Today 9/14/02, I started out just after 7:00am and worked the east side of the Guadalupe River from Montague Expressway to just south of Trimble Road and back. Despite spending over 3 hours here I didn't find many birds, except for the fennel just north of Trimble, which had 2/3 of the YELLOW WARBLERS and all the ORANGE-CROWNEDS. "WESTERN" FLYCATCHER - 1 WARBLING VIREO - 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH - 2 (one interspersing "whisper songs" between calls) CEDAR WAXWING - 5 in one group ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER - 3 (1 gray-headed) YELLOW WARBLER - 15 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT - 4 WILSON'S WARBLER - 2 WESTERN TANAGER - 12+ LINCOLN'S SPARROW - 3 DARK-EYED JUNCO - 2 also 2 banded SONG SPARROWS (on left leg) Next I made a 3-hour bike tour of the Alviso Salt Ponds. They have 5 pumps blocking the A14/A15 dike and filling A15 - so there is no more shorebird roosting habitat in A15. A14 is still full, so there is no high tide refuge anywhere in these salt ponds this year :( Guess the birds are roosting in Alameda County. Highlight of this bike loop was a juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER with a group of LEAST SANDPIPERS along the eastern edge of pond A15. Many FORSTER'S TERNS were foraging over A12, and some were being chased by gulls and CASPIAN TERNS when they had fish (the CASPIAN out maneuver ed the gulls and got the fish). A total of 78 BROWN PELICANS was split between A12 (11) and A9/A10 (67). The impoundment north of the Marina had 3 SNOWY PLOVERS (all with two good legs) and 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS. Scoping the shorebirds on Coyote Slough yielded 24 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and 1 WHIMBREL, the latter across the county line in Alameda County. A CLAPPER RAIL heard north of pond A9 was unusual, 2 VIRGINIA RAILS heard in Alviso Slough were more expected. The tern flock at the western edge of the A9/A10 dike held 260 FORSTER'S TERNS and a single CASPIAN TERN (had a total of 5 adult CASPIAN TERNS out there today). The swallow flock near SFBBO had again grown while I was out on the ponds - there were 180 BARN SWALLOWS and 15 VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS there at 1:30pm. Lastly, I checked New Chicago Marsh, both from State and Spreckles and from the railroad tracks. PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER - 1 worn adult (the usual bird in the usual spot) SNOWY PLOVER - 1 juvenile just before the tracks join the main line on the left - may well have been one of the ones seen earlier) LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 12+ PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 1, State and Spreckles STILT SANDPIPER - 2, the basic adult and a juvenile bird. The latter is presumably Miguel's "1st-winter" bird, although I saw virtually no basic plumage on it yet. Both of these birds were at State and Spreckles. RUFF - East of the tracks north of the PGPL pond, found by Emily Serkin. WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 27+, State and Spreckles. Mike Rogers