From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Apr 21 14:49:20 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3LLl1LR028744 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.19.30]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3LLjsE6028687 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3p2/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-5n) id OAA22666 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] a few Big Day highlights X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] All, The "Varied Twitchers" Big Day birders, including me, Mike Mammoser, Ann Verdi, and Jean Myers, birded from 4:00am to 8:30pm on Saturday April 19 and tallied a combined total of 157 species within Santa Clara County. I will forward a complete trip summary soon, but in the meantime others may be interested in the highlights noted below. Hiking out of Monte Bello Open Space Preserve on the Canyon Trail, at about mile 0.5 near the low point past the sag pond, I heard the buzz of a LAZULI BUNTING from upslope in the tree-lined drainage. Heading uphill to try and see this bird, I managed to locate an adult male HERMIT WARBLER and a HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER, both of which our entire group managed to see well before we left (behind schedule of course). This little migrant flock was a real gold mine, especially for the Santa Cruz Mountains where these species are typically harder to find as migrants than in the Diablo Range. Our other unexpected species came at the end of a very successful foray into Ed Levin Park. We got a singing male LAZULI BUNTING, singing RUFOUS-CROWNED SPARROWS, singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, two LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, and a pair of LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES near the sycamores above Sandy Wool Lake. Dozens of SELASPHORUS HUMMINGBIRDS (mostly RUFOUS) were migrating through and by carefully searching through the hummingbirds down at the Elm Picnic Area I managed to locate a perched male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD! Remarkably this bird remained perched at the same spot for over ten minutes, allowing me to run back to the car and get a scope so we could all enjoy extended scope-filling views of this beautiful little bird! The exact location was in the eucalyptus trees along the golf course edge where the middle path from the parking comes in. These migrants are likely not chaseable as they move on quickly, but this does indicate that it is a great time of year to look for migrants out there! A much more detailed trip report will follow later (tomorrow?). Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ 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]]