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From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]>
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Subject: [SBB] Sage Thrasher at SWPCP
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All,

Today 12/12/03, I met Mike Mammoser at the Sunnyvale Water Pollution
Control Plant to exchange CBC materials and to make a quick check of
the ducks from atop the old dump south of the west pond.  We headed up
along the upper of the two paths from west of the parking lot and
then, when the upper path splits, we took the lower split.  Within 30
yards of this split I found a SAGE THRASHER foraging along the road.
This bird was extremely cooperative, eventually walking towards us
along the road to the point where we could no longer focus on it in
our scopes!  It is a well-marked bird with strong streaking below, a
somewhat mangy face on the left side (some missing feathers) and
appears to be in molt (the upper two tertials on the right side have
been dropped).  The bird was still present at 12:22pm when we left it
to scope ducks.  Among the interesting ducks on the west pond were 10
REDHEAD (4 males and 6 females) and 2 male EURASIAN WIGEON (1 adult
and 1 immature).  Mike spotted an apparent dark male columbarius
MERLIN on a power tower south of A4.

The Sage Thrasher is a great count week bird for the Palo Alto CBC
and, I believe, the first December record for the county!

Mike Rogers
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