Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]>
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Subject: [SBB] AMERICAN REDSTART
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All,

This morning 9/15/02, I birded Stevens Creek between L'Avenida and
Crittenden Lane.  This time there was a good assortment of migrants.
The highlight was an adult male AMERICAN REDSTART, watched from 7:17am
to 7:27am as it flitted its way through the mid-level canopy.  I saw
the bird from the east side of the creek just a couple hundred yards
north of the end of L'Avenida.  There was a big wooden sign that said
"Bargain Faire Sat May 1 8:00-12:00 Moffett and Middlefield" that was
split in two and in the creek bed.  I put one half at each end of the
portion of the creek where I had the REDSTART (on the east side of the
creek along the lower path).  Among the 46 species (high!) seen along
this stretch were 4 species of HERONS/EGRETS, an immature COOPER'S
HAWK, 2 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, 8 "WESTERN" FLYCATCHERS (including one
singing its full song!), 1 WARBLING VIREO, 3 BARN SWALLOWS, 1 HOUSE
WREN (lone eucalyptus), 16 YELLOW WARBLERS, 3 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS,
2 WILSON'S WARBLERS, 1 WESTERN TANAGER, 2 SAVANNAH SPARROWS, and
2 DARK-EYED JUNCOS.  Twenty-four GREEN-WINGED TEAL and 7 NORTHERN
SHOVELERS north of the Crittenden Lane bridge were expected, but a
group of 8 NORTHERN SHOVELERS down near the lone eucalyptus were
further up the creek than I usually see them.

Mike Rogers