From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Aug 29 18:31:08 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7U1TGkX009204 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from la.znet.com (la.znet.com [207.167.96.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7U1RBVK009157 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.42.16.107] (66-42-16-107.oak.inetworld.net [66.42.16.107] (may be forged)) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id h7U1R6QF009460 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:27:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> X-Sender: [[email protected]] (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:27:17 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: Re: [SBB] Shorebirds and Landbirds X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ 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]] Bill and All, BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON did nest in the second palm tree from the left, as you view them from across the duck pond, this year. The nest is very hard to spot unless the young are up and active or earlier when the adults were changing places on the nest. The adults raised two young to at least a week or two before fledging when I lost track. A few days ago I noted a single juvenile standing in the nest. As I understand it from Deborah Bartens, the Naturalist at the Center, the Black-crowned Night Herons have not otherwise nested in the palms in recent years but did sometime in the past. Dean Manley >Folks: > >This morning, 8/29/2003, I checked the Palo Alto Baylands and the end of >Embarcadero Way for early landbird migrants, but found none. Two unfledged >SNOWY EGRETS are in a nest at the Palo Alto Duck Pond and I counted 5 >immature birds in the palms, presumably still dependent on their >parents. A juvenile BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON was here as well and I >suspect that this species nested here this year as adults have been present >throughout the season. > >I then made a visit to New Chicago Marsh where I found two juvenile >PECTORAL SANDPIPERS east of the RR tracks. I then joined Dean Manley, Bob >Reiling and Dave McIntyre at State and Spreckles. Dean had been studying a >godwit-like bird here that he had also seen Wednesday and Thursday. Based >on the power of group thinking we concluded it was juvenile HUDSONIAN >GODWIT and Dave McIntyre was then kind enough to call Mammoser and Rogers >on his cell phone. Just after Mike Mammoser arrived, the godwit flew and >we were delighted in the contrast on the lower wing between the black >underwing coverts and white bases on the secondaries and inner primaries, >creating a white stripe. The black tail and white rump was also quite >distinctive. This bird appears to have less pink-flesh coloring on the >inner portion of the bill than is typical. We have two previous records >for the county: another juvenile at Sunnyvale in 1990 and a 1st-spring bird >at the Sunnyvale-Santa Clara WPCP drying ponds in 2000. I left before Mike >Mammoser found the Stilt Sandpiper, sigh. > >Bill _______________________________________________ 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]]