From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Feb 22 23:24:49 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1N7MZOG005525 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:22:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1N7Lg3w005487 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0077.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.77] helo=209.179.192.77) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18mqN9-0002Zf-00 for [[email protected]]; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:16:27 -0800 Date: 22 Feb 2003 23:16:39 -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 h1N7Lg3w005487 Subject: [SBB] Atrastradero owls 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]] Thursday night, 2/20, I took a group of people on a night hike in Arastradero Preserve for Acterra. We had four successive sightings of a Great Horned Owl as we walked in. It was not vocalizing and was probably hunting. Halfway up to the second pond (John Selby Pond), I got active responses from 3 WESTERN SCREECH-OWLs. One was seen briefly. A hundred yards further up-trail, I got another screech-owl to respond, but not for long. The most impressive experience was the "wall of sound" of the Pacific Tree Frogs at the upper pond. We were mesmerized by the sound for 20 minutes. It was like a composition by Steve Reich or Philip Glass with complex layers of polyrythmic croaking, the overall patterns gradually changing over time. When I scouted the area on the previous night, the frogs all went silent for a few seconds. Then one started calling, eventually joined by a second, and it continued until they were all going full bore again. The good news is that we didn't hear any bullfrogs. 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]]