Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8R8D8V04381 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:13:08 -0700 Received: from acer ([12.81.1.18]) by mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.12 201-253-122-126-112-20020820) with SMTP id <20020927081253.BZMO16681.mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net@acer> for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:12:53 +0000 Message-ID: <002401c265fe$1031e880$1201510c@acer> From: "John Mariani" <[[email protected]]> To: "South-bay-birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:15:34 -0700 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 Subject: [SBB] Possible Bay-breasted Warbler? 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: Howdy South-bay-birders, Just thought I'd pass this along--I got a report from a local birder (withholding name since the person may not feel comfortable reporting this sighting to SBB) of a possible Bay-breasted Warbler seen in eucalyptus near the beginning of the Alamitos Creek Trail (just a short distance up the creek from where it flows into Almaden Lake) on Wednesday. The only description given to me was it "looked like a Bay breasted Warbler 1st winter ( in our Sibleys guide)." There have been quite a few western migrants hanging out in this general area lately--I was also there on Wednesday but didn't see an unusual warbler, although I did have YELLOW, ORANGE-CROWNED, and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, and WESTERN TANAGER along the creek between the lake and Mazzone Lane bridge. Another hot spot along the creek is across from Carrabelle Park, just downstream from the Camden Avenue bridge over Alamitos Creek. The large fennel patch there had lots of YELLOW WARBLERS the last time I was there, also COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, WESTERN TANAGER, nad other migrnats. John Mariani [[email protected]] www.birdswest.com 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 g8RFhtV10536 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:43:56 -0700 Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.1 #46498) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:43:45 -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] - 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: This morning, 9/27/2002, I noted 2500-3000 RUDDY DUCKS in Salt Pond A2W. These have apparently moved in this week as there were fewer than a dozen there last Monday. Two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS were doing their stiff-winged flight over the Renzel Wetlands in Palo Alto. A BURROWING OWL was using mound #1 at Shoreline Park. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at the Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh was nice to see. There appeared to be a southward movement of swallows at sunrise; I counted well over a hundred birds. All that I could identify were VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS. Bill Received: from imo-r01.mx.aol.com (imo-r01.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.97]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8RIWqV13502 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:32:52 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.d5.1e0fb098 (16484) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:32:42 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:32:41 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 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] Blackpoll Warbler 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 Frank Vanslager and I had a (the) BLACKPOLL WARBLER in a tree near the far southeastern corner of the Water Treatment Facility located at the end of Embarcadero Way. The tree has a smooth reddish trunk with long, fine alternating leaves (suspect it's not a native tree as I could not find it in my guide to North American Trees). This BLWA had more extensive yellow, throat and chest to the mid-belly with faint side of breast streaking, than the bird seen Sunday in Coyote Hills. It had bold white wingbars, dark eye stripe, yellowish supercillium and lower half eyering, whitish undertail coverts (not quite as bright white as the one seen at Coyote Hills but then maybe it was the darker lighting today), very short tail extension beyond the end of the undertail coverts and bright pinkish-orange feet (seen several times against the gray of the branches it perched on). The bird also foraged much differently than the YELLOW, YELLOW-RUMPED and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS seen in the same area. The bird tended to crawl along the branches making only short flights to the next branch (much like the Chestnut-sided Warbler but even more so). Take care, Bob Reiling, 11:39 AM, 9/27/02 Received: from imo-d10.mx.aol.com (imo-d10.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.42]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8RLv6V16477 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:57:06 -0700 Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.17a.f660c0f (15974) for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:57:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aol.com (mow-m04.webmail.aol.com [64.12.184.132]) by air-id10.mx.aol.com (v88.21) with ESMTP id MAILINID101-0927175701; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:57:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:57:01 -0400 From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by plaidworks.com id g8RLv6V16477 Subject: [SBB] Three (!) Blackpoll Warblers at Almaden Lake 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 decided to run over to Almaden Lake during my lunch hour to look for the possible Bay-breasted Warbler posted earlier today. While there, I ran into Mike Mammoser, who was there for the same reason. There were a lot of migrants, especially Yellow-rumped Wablers 40+ (including one coronata type) in the trees near the mouth of Alamitos Creek, along with scattered Yellow and Orange-crowned warblers (4 lutescens and 1 orestera). After around 20 minutes, I attracted the first Blackpoll by "spishing". The bird was on the west side of the creek mouth in some pepper trees, but was extremely responsive to the spishing. It responded by chipping loudly and was visibly quite agitated and getting as close to us as it could(to the point of flying straight at us to within 2-3 ft and hovering in front of us several times!). Needless to say, Mike and I got excellent views. This bird was a very bright, classic Blackpoll with entirely (or nearly so) pink legs. A few minutes later, I found a second Blackpoll in the lone Eucalyptus on the east side of the creek mouth area. This bird was considerable duller and was missing its tail. While I was looking at this bird, Mike Mammoser found yet another Blackpoll in the same tree! This bird was considerably duller than the first bird, but had a tail. This is a fairly remarkable occurrence for an inland location. With 5 in Santa Clara County over the past several days, and several other recent inland reports, it is obvious that something is going on with Blackpoll Warblers this year. Scott Terrill Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8RMnfV17236 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:49:41 -0700 Received: from c363625c ([12.234.133.26]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020927224936.DQPV6431.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@c363625c> for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:49:36 +0000 Message-ID: <001401c26678$8a4547a0$[[email protected]]> From: "Peggy L. Don" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:52:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 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] Chesnut-sided Warbler, Prairie Falcon, Reeve 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: SBBers, When I arrived at CCFS around 9:30 AM, September 27, 2002, there were hundreds of swallows, mostly VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWs, foraging over the fields. The bird activity around the north training nets was very low. It seemed like the only species I was going to see were dozens of Mourning Doves and Mallards. Then I located a WILSON'S WARBLER and a YELLOW WARBLER. In a tree adjacent to the nets a WESTERN FLYCATCHER perched. Later 2 AUDUBON'S WARBLERs flew in. Around 10 AM I spotted the CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER in a tree north of the nets. Several times during the next 3 - 4 minutes it perched in the open. Also in the tree was a Yellow Warbler. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER foraged low in the thickets as did 2 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS. The WESTERN KINGBIRD flycatched from its favorite bush. Several WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWs settled on nearby shrubs. At the banding trailer I noticed a WHITE-TAILED KITE perched on a tree behind it. It was displaced by a PRAIRIE FALCON and moved to the other side of the tree for a nice size comparison. On the way home I stopped at New Chicago Marsh and found the REEVE in the first pond. Peggy Don Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by plaidworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8S2O2V20982 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:24:02 -0700 Received: from c363625c ([12.234.133.26]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020928022357.EBKF15492.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@c363625c>; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 02:23:57 +0000 Message-ID: <002c01c26696$7bada3e0$[[email protected]]> From: "Peggy L. Don" <[[email protected]]> To: "SBB" <[[email protected]]> Cc: "Peggy L. Don" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:26:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 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] Blackpoll Warblers at Almaden Lake 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: SBBers, I couldn't resist checking out the Blackpoll Warblers at Almaden Lake this afternoon around 5 PM. As I was walking toward the lake along Alamitos Creek I ran into Ann Verdi, who was birding in the opposite direction, just before the gate. As we looked toward the creek at each yellow warbler foraging from the south I had a quick glimpse of a BLACKPOLL WARBLER in a small tree on the west side. There might have been more than one Blackpoll Warbler because we were getting only brief or partial views for a while as it (they) flitted about until one perched in the open several times for excellent eye-level views. It was possibly the "very, bright classic Blackpoll with entirely (or nearly so) pink legs" which Scott Terrill described. After Ann left I had several more views of Blackpolls in the Eucalyptus trees by the gate. There were at least two different ones because one was bright like the first one and another (with a tail) was considerably duller. 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