From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Apr 29 17:00:03 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3TNwALZ016873 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3TNulE6016830 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.22.) id t.a8.1c27f95f (24895) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:56:44 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:56:43 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1+ Subject: [SBB] County birding 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, This morning Frank Vanslager and I decided to take a page out of Bill Bousman's book and bird Llagas Creek above Bloomfield Rd (a chance at one of three Yellow-breasted Chats was simply to hard to pass up). Pat Kenny and Roland Kenner felt similarly inclined as we ran into them at the ponds. Earlier we had independently seen YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS (a life bird for Pat). As stated by Bill the ponds had a good mix of ducks and shorebirds. We had CANADA GOOSE, MALLARD, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, NORTHERN SHOVELER GREEN-WINGED TEAL, CINNAMON TEAL, and RUDDY DUCK (no Ring-necked Duck). Sandpipers included WESTERN & LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER (many), both DOWITCHERS (at least one Short-billed well seen), KILLDEER, a single GREATER YELLOWLEGS, two black-bellied DUNLIN and two sightings of WILSON'S SNIPE. One pond had a few AMERICAN COOT. Passerines included Chats (coming & going), AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, CALIFORNIA THRASHER, BEWICK'S & MARSH WREN, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, SONG SPARROW, BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK and BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD. We had four types of swallows but no swifts. Frank and I then went to San Felipe Rd where the last Eucalyptus Tree had several male WESTERN TANAGER (for some time we were seeing two at a time and just as we left 5 to 6 WETA flew from the tree to the orchard across the road). At one point Frank saw at least one Kingbird fly into the last Eucalyptus but we were unable to refind it (them) in the high winds of the oncoming storm. We also had BULLOCK'S ORIOLES and one pair of HOODED ORIOLES (Frank noted that the farm toward which they were flying had a Fan Palm). The only goodie at the creek bridge was a missed Empidonax (it just disappeared while trying to get it in my scope but preliminary impression was of a Willow Flycatcher). Take care, Bob Reiling, 4:55 PM, 4/29/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]