From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Feb 6 14:22:39 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h16MJ04r014949 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m07.mx.aol.com (imo-m07.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.162]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h16MILSE014907 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.21.) id t.4a.17c51e4d (4206) for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:17:55 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:17:54 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] County birding 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]] All, This morning Frank Vanslager and I saw the adult ROSS'S GOOSE with a small group of CANADA GEESE on the southern edge of the pond where it was found yesterday by Mike Mammoser (the open water pond adjacent to the west side of Calabazas Creek) north of the pump station. We accessed this pond via Calabazas Creek and Old Mountain View Alviso Rd. (parking just west of the creek). We also had a MERLIN (a fairly lightly marked bird with a well defined supercillium and almost no mustache) in a small tree west of the creek, a PEREGRINE FALCON was on a power tower near Twin Creeks, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was having breakfast on a fence post in the south central portion of the park, and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was perched on a fence post a couple hundred feet from the dike. Some shallow ponds south of Yerba Buena Way near Lafayette St. had several LEAST SANDPIPERS and a couple KILLDEER but no hoped for rarities. We then saw at least six GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE near a pond on the western edge of Arzino Ranch (several BURROWING OWLS were also spotted). A second Peregrine Falcon was on a power tower along the entrance road to the Environmental Education Center (EEC), it later flew past us and on toward San Jose. Many MEW and RING-BILLED GULLS were in the Water treatment facility off Los Esteros Rd (only behind the entrance kiosk this time). A trip to the Coyote Creek Field Station was primarily for the exercise as we had no "mentionables," lots of the usual gulls and hundreds of Dowitchers. Several THAYER'S GULLS were at our final stop at the EEC. We didn't see any owls in the nest box there but Frank was thinking that they should be setting up house soon. Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:18 PM, 2/6/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]