From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Dec 19 23:00:59 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBK6wsPJ014566 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:58:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBK6vGUP014502 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-2ivfmr4.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.219.100] helo=kirstennt) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AXb33-0000gY-00 for [[email protected]]; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:57:14 -0800 From: "Kirsten R. Holmquist" <[[email protected]]> To: "South Bay Birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:57:09 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001A_01C3C683.6EEE43F0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: <[[email protected]]> Importance: Normal Subject: [SBB] San Jose CBC Review 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]] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C3C683.6EEE43F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The San Jose CBC took place in clear weather this year. A welcome sight to counters who were braced for a rainy day right up to a few hours before daylight on count day (Sunday, the 14th). Many thanks to all those who nonetheless braved the predicted bad weather to make this count a success. And many thanks to the sector leaders who worked so hard to coordinate the activities of all those volunteers. The preliminary species total for the San Jose count is 162. We had a number of great sitings for the day. Some of them have already been alluded to in postings over the last week. But, an overall review of the write-up worthy follows. Ann Verdi's party (including Rich Page and Coralisa Hughes) hit the rare bird motherlode in Overfelt Gardens in San Jose, near the Chinese Cultural Garden. Foraging with a mixed flock were a NASHVILLE WARBLER and a WESTERN TANAGER. Sparrows were well represented this year. David McIntyre and Vicki Silvas-Young located a SWAMP SPARROW at the north end of Gold Street Bridge in Alviso CA. Grant and Karen Hoyt found a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (tan-stripe) on the NE side of Coyote Creek about 300 meters upstream of HWY 237. Another WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (also tan-stripe) was found at Trimble and the Guadalupe River by Dan Keller and Al DeMartini. A couple of interesting shorebirds made an appearance. Mike Mammoser re-located a RUFF in the New Chicago Marsh next to the Environmental Education Center. A LESSER YELLOWLEGS associated with some of its larger brethren in full view of Bill Bousman, Paul Pickering, and Paul Ayars. Love the birds with the funky hair-dos? Then Kep Stone's and Howard Higley's PHAINOPEPLA (male) is the bird for you. The bird was on the ridge to the SW of the Calaveras Creek Drainage. Allen Royer and a crew that included Chris Prendergast and Joanna Bowden Royer found a COMMON LOON floating at the mouth of Arroyo Hondo at the Calaveras Reservoir. Hawks completed the round-up with a couple FERRUGINOUS HAWKS making an appearance. Allen Royer's crew found one of them at Arroyo Hondo. The other was located by Al DeMartini along the Guadalupe River, south of Trimble. Al DeMartini and Dan Keller also refound the HARLAN'S RED-TAILED HAWK in the same area. This interesting color morph of the Red-Tailed Hawk made its 7th straight appearance this winter. Winning the award for the "Most-Inexplicable-Blank" this year are the Band-Tailed Pigeons. Apparently none felt like perching up and being counted this year. Best Regards, Kirsten R. 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