From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Apr 30 19:31:30 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h412TOLZ009634 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m06.mx.aol.com (imo-m06.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.161]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h412S8E6009587 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.22.) id t.25.38219ae9 (4254) for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:28:02 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:28:01 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] Oka Ponds...Western Tanager! 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]] Good evening South Bay Birders...... Tonight I decided to walk the ponds, which always seem to delight me....tonight was no exception. I entered through the Oka Lane entrance and as I started down the path with the chain link fence I noticed a yellow bird fly high into the Euc. When I looked through my binocs I was shocked to see a WESTERN TANAGER.....be still my heart. Last time I saw one there was four years ago.... I walked the rest of the way down the path to see how the CANADA GOOSE is coming along in her incubating...she was still there. There were three sets of goslings tonight. A pair with 5, then 3 then 3 again. More Canada Geese are nesting in-between the ponds. The FORSTER'S TERNS and ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS were flying over the ponds. A beautifully plumaged GREEN HERON was in the first pond. Four Green Herons were seen tonight. Lots of HOUSE FINCH calling as I walked. The only ducks left now at the ponds are the male MALLARDS. A few SNOWY EGRETS foraging, as well as a GREAT BLUE HERON flying back towards Vasona.... AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, SONG SPARROW, LESSER GOLDFINCH and BUSHTITS were all in the trees as I walked towards "Snipe Island". The RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS look to be nesting along the reeds in all the ponds... Crossing the bridge ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS were chasing each other. The big surprise was that there were only 2 PIED-BILLED GREBES (in different pond from each other) tonight. Must be off nesting. The other surprise was no gulls either.... On the way out, a single VAUX'S SWIFT came in over the freeway to fly over Oka Ponds. This mornings birding took me to Vasona...the Great Blue Heron Rookery is doing well. Four active nests with 11 nestlings for this season. I birded my favorite area where the Bullock's Orioles are nesting and had a single WILSON'S WARBLER, ROBINS, CA TOWHEES and WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH were seen, as well as ACORN, NUTTALL'S and DOWNY WOODPECKERS. _______________________________________________ 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]]