From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Feb 4 09:02:56 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h14Gtw4x023969 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:55:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h14GtDSE023931 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.2 #30665) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:54:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:54:52 -0800 (PST) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii cc: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] - X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 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]] Folks: Yesterday, 2/3/2003, I biked north from the Alviso Marina and encountered Peggy Don and her husband and RUFF mania. The female Ruff was cooperative in the morning light. I was only certain of one LESSER YELLOWLEGS and counted 14 SANDERLING on the impoundment there (later there were four more along the A13/A15 dike). Peggy, her husband, and I then biked out to the outer edge of Salt Pond A15 where the 'MALLARD' is digging on the levee and no one can pass. We biked back to the A13/A15 levee and bypassed the dredge. An adult PEREGRINE FALCON was perched along the dike. This brought us to A9 which was full of ducks. I guessed 3000+ AM. WIGEONS and 2000+ RUDDY DUCKS, with lesser numbers of CANVASBACKS and dabblers. I was able to find three male EURASIAN WIGEON in the flocks. Also there were at least three male REDHEADS as well. I continued around and found a pale adult PEREGRINE FALCON on the A9/A10 dike and two female/imm RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS in A10. As an aside, I haven't made a careful measurement recently of the Alviso Slough trail, but I don't think 2.5 miles will get you anywhere close to Salt Pond A9--it's more like 4+ miles to a spot where you can watch the birds on this furthest-out pond. This morning, 2/4/2003, there was an immature PEREGRINE FALCON on a tower on Salt Pond A2W. 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]]