From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Feb 10 00:38:03 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1A8WZ4s018300 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:32:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1A8VVSE018228 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:31:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0066.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.66] helo=209.179.192.66) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18i9KD-0007lI-00 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:30:02 -0800 Date: 10 Feb 2003 00:30:08 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 2.1 (Mac) X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-Ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h1A8VVSE018228 Subject: [SBB] Ducky day 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]] A group from my birding class did "Duck Dash" today where we tried to find as many waterfowl species as possible, within a reasonable distance. We ended up enjoying the sunny weather so much that we lost a bit of our "dash" and lingered to enjoy the birds a bit longer. Highlights: - 2 HOODED MERGANSERs, male and female, at point-blank range in the low tide channel seen from across the street from the Duck Pond. Prob. the same birds mentioned by Kendric Smith, although we did not spy said Smith. - 1 female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER at Leo Ryan Park in Foster City. - BLUE-WINGED TEAL and EURASIAN WIGEON in the pond behind the shopping center off Redwood Shores Parkway. I think we saw 4 males of the teal, although I don't think anyone actually saw all 4 at the same time. - 2 DUCK HAWKs (okay, PEREGRINE FALCONs) at the PA Baylands. One stood on a nest on a tower by Hooks Island. These were the birds mentioned by Deb Bartens and Mike Mammoser in posts on South-Bay- Birds. We looked for but could not find the Harlequin Duck at Coyote Point (tide probably not high enough), and the Common Teal at Redwood Shores and at Stevens Creek Tidal Marsh (tide too low?). We ended up with 19 waterfowl species. We ran out of time and steam and didn't run down to Almaden Reservoir for Wood Duck and Common Merganser, and we didn't turn up Ring-necked Ducks anywhere. We knew that there were Redheads a few miles out in the Alviso salt ponds, Barrow's Goldeneye in (and Tufted Duck?) in Lake Merritt in Oakland, more Harlequin Ducks in Monterey, along with Long-tailed Ducks in several Bay Area locations, a Tufted Duck in Harkins Slough on the coast, Black and White-winged Scoters in the Ft. Funston area and Ross's and Greater White-fronted Goose were in Alviso and Sunnyvale. By my count, if you went far enough, you could currrently tally 28 ducks (plus one subspecies) and 5 species of geese. Les -- Les Chibana BirdNUTZ(TM) - Ornigasmic Birding em <[[email protected]]> - web ph 650-949-4335 - fx 650-949-4137 snailmail: SR 2, Box 335, La Honda CA 94020 _______________________________________________ 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]]