From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Feb 8 15:59:47 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h18NvS4s025330 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mms1.broadcom.com (mms1.broadcom.com [63.70.210.58]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h18NujSE025288 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:56:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom MMS1 SMTP Relay (MMS v5.5.0)); Sat, 08 Feb 2003 15:55:54 -0700 Received: from mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com [10.20.128.21]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA07428 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:56:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc2kmikem (dhcpe1-sjcw-254 [10.20.64.254]) by mail-sjcw-1.sw.broadcom.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/SSM) with SMTP id h18NuBVE024886 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:56:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Mike Mammoser" <[[email protected]]> To: SBB <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:55:02 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal X-WSS-ID: 125B4680270209-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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]] On Saturday, 8 Feb 03, I visited a few south county spots and the Palo Alto Baylands. First off, at the Baylands I saw a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS that look as though they may be interested in breeding in the old raven nest on the power tower overlooking the mouth of the estuary. I was watching one of the birds flying over the marsh, and followed it in my binoculars back to the tower. As it landed, I noticed a second bird swoop up and land on the raven nest. This bird spent the next half hour or so standing on the nest, laying in the nest, turning around in circles on the nest, and calling to the other bird. As I compared the two birds, the one on the nest looked smaller, indicating that it was the male. His antics may have been a display attempting to elicit acceptance of the location as a breeding site from the female. I alerted Deborah Bartons to their presence, and we watched them together, along with Dean Manley, who had been seeing one or both of these birds recently. It will be interesting to see how this scenario plays out. Other than that, I returned to the Coyote Creek Golf Course, where I was unable to find the Pacific Loon. Evidently, it was capable of leaving the area after all. There were no Grackles in evidence either. What was there were 5 WILSON'S SNIPE working the edge of the ponds and the grassy periphery, a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE behind the club house, a BELTED KINGFISHER perched on the rock dam between ponds, and a single TREE SWALLOW working the skies overhead. At the Coyote Ranch Marsh I had 13 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS tucked away in the reeds, a COMMON MOORHEN paddling around through the reeds, and a vocal pair of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in the vicinity of last year's nest along the creek. At Parkway Lakes I had 15 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS. Are these the same 15 birds I've been seeing there all winter? It seems like every time I go by there and count them, there's always 15. At the north end of the middle lake (near where the dam is) there is a GREAT BLUE HERON rookery being established in a tree. I saw 2 nests evidently complete with a bird standing on each and another pair laying down the foundation of a third nest. A fifth bird was wandering through the tree looking for loose branches to break off. Mike Mammoser _______________________________________________ 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]]