From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Apr 27 11:35:26 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3RIXULa002775 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3RIWvE6002737 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.22.) id t.20.fe52369 (657) for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:32:54 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:32:53 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10633 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1+ Subject: [SBB] NAWA and HEWA at Picchetti Ranch 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: On Sunday, April 27, at about 9:30 I finally found what I was searching for: a Nashville Warbler and a Hermit Warbler in the tops of the tallest Oak trees just off the southeast edge of the pond at Picchetti Ranch. These are very tall oaks and it really requires a scope (and patience) to identify specific warblers. (There was also at least one Townsend's, Orange-crowned, and Yellow-rumped Warblers.) My quick scope view of the Nashville showed a complete, but thin, eye-ring, a yellowish throat, and white on the lower belly bounded by yellow fore and aft. I also heard it sing. I'd earlier gone further out on the Zinfandel Trail to see if I could re-find the two Warblers that Bob Reiling and I had heard in the rain a few days earlier. One of the birds was giving a soft two-part song from only a few feet away, but we couldn't visually identify the culprit under those wet conditions. (The other was likely a MacGillivray's.) It was only when I got home and played the tapes that I realized that we had been hearing the Nashville, hence, this return visit. Other mentionables today include Ash-throated and Olive-sided Flycatchers, a Red-shouldered hawk in the orchard, two Blue-gray Gnatcatchers building a nest in the last large oak just south of the pond on the Zinfandel trail, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, and numerous singing Orange-crowned Warblers, Hutton's and Warbling Vireos, Spotted Towhees, Bewick's Wrens, and Wrentits. Frank Vanslager _______________________________________________ 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]]