From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Dec 20 18:14:32 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBL2BpPG004321 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (smtp1.stanford.edu [171.67.16.120]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBL2B8UP004264 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from kahuna.stanford.edu (SW-90-736-701-2.Stanford.EDU [171.66.158.125]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBL2B6ph025976 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:11:06 -0800 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Sender: [[email protected]] (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:11:06 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: Tom Wiggins <[[email protected]]> In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [SBB] Node gone? 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]] ...the viral node that is? How are tings ober dere? You are awfully quiet...must be up to tricks or something. Morning CBC reading below.... Watching SU play Gonzaga. Just started...and I'm already wondering if I have "the right truck." The Accord doesn't have 375hp or a cummins diesel or holly carburetor or.... Maybe I should just upgrade.... Dad was sounding morose today...and I never know how to take that...cry wolf thing or not? He was doing that just about *every* day I was there...so.... 16 days off! Yee haw! Did you hear the Jim Bday story? What to do...what to do.... --Piddler-- >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:57:09 -0800 >From: "Kirsten R. Holmquist" <[[email protected]]> >Subject: [SBB] San Jose CBC Review >To: "South Bay Birds" <[[email protected]]> >Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > >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. Holmquist > >[[email protected]] >408.747.0988 _______________________________________________ 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]]