From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Feb 14 13:06:54 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1EL2p4t022366 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail07a.vwh1.net (mail07a.vwh1.net [209.238.9.57]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1EL2ISE022333 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hiddenvilla.org (209.238.206.251) by mail07a.vwh1.net (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 047009 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:01:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <008601c2d46c$12abca40$[[email protected]]> From: "Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:00:14 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] Pygmy Owl, White-throateds at Hidden Villa 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h1EL2p4t022366 Hello all, Last night, Thurs 2/13/03, between 7:15 and 7:30 PM a Northern Pygmy-Owl was very vocal just a few yards behind my office (on Adobe Creek about 1/4 mile W of Moody Rd.) This is the first time I've heard one here in many months. There are at least 2 continuing White-throated Sparrows on the farm too. They are highly dependable in two different flocks of Golden-crowned Sparrows: one at the children's garden by the hostel building, and the other close by the chicken coop (I have actually seen it inside the coop scavenging spilled seed.) Both are tan-striped individuals. I have seen two tan-striped WTSP together on several occasions over the past few weeks, always up by the chickens, leading me to wonder if the one that seems always to be down by the hostel is still a third? In any case, this is a good spot to come and find this species right now. Last year, a twosome remained throughout the winter, leaving a couple of weeks before the Goldens in late spring. Tuesday of this week I observed at least 2000 excited American Robins swarming through the forested portions of Hidden Villa. Eighteen Varied Thrushes and 6 Hermit Thrushes also, but only 8 waxwings and NO Band-tailed Pigeons...which intrigues me because I'm pretty sure the source of the excitement for the Thrushes is a bumper crop of Toyon berries, finally ripe after the recent cold nights. Why aren't those other winter fruit specialists getting in on the feast? I continue to look for sapsuckers here, but no luck recently, although I heard calls at 2 locations yesterday. --Garth Harwood _______________________________________________ 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]]