From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Feb 14 20:52:47 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1F4og4t028961 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:50:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1F4o0SE028927 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [12.255.140.38] (12-255-140-38.client.attbi.com[12.255.140.38]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <200302150449230020031spje>; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:49:23 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:50:42 -0800 From: Dennis Braddy <[[email protected]]> To: SouthBayBirds <[[email protected]]> Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [SBB] Chukars and Eagles 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]] SouthBayBirders, This morning two miles north of Paicines a pair of GREAT BLUE HERONS in flight caught our attention. They landed in a rookery containing another dozen herons and several nests. We observed both nest building and copulation. Two adult BALD EAGLES perched together in a tree on the far shore of Paicines Reservoir. They soon moved to an Oak on the near side. The pair watched a juvenile BALD EAGLE fly over them and land nearby. Between Paicines and the Panoche Valley another adult BALD EAGLE sat atop a distant ridge. Along the way we also had a male PHAINOPEPLA. In the Panoche Valley we saw a MERLIN and a FERRUGINOUS HAWK. As the Ferruginous Hawk sat in a field two Common Ravens sidled-up to him. The hawk decided he had business elsewhere. Also on the valley floor were a VESPER SPARROW and a flock of 90+ HORNED LARKS. In Shotgun Pass two CHUKARS foraged on a steep hillside. One of them lacked the usual high contrast markings of an adult Chukar. A juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE paused briefly on a hilltop overlooking the pass before continuing north. A couple of miles west of the Little Panoche Detention Dam, a GOLDEN EAGLE was repeatedly strafed by a Common Raven with half the eagle's enormous wingspan. In spite of the harassment the Golden Eagle continued to circle over the same area. When a pair of Red-tailed Hawks took over for the raven, the eagle departed with the two smaller raptors in tow. Dennis and Patricia Braddy San Ramon _______________________________________________ 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]]