From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Feb 27 00:15:57 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1R8E7EM027874 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:14:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1R8Ddfr027840 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0036.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.36] helo=216.244.42.36) by albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18oJAg-0000dN-00 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:13:38 -0800 Date: 27 Feb 2003 00:13:52 -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 h1R8Ddfr027840 Subject: [SBB] Short-eared Owl at PAFCB, Shoreline X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1+ 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]] Finally, after many tries, morning and evening, from Byxby Park and from the Charleston Slough pumphouse, I finally saw the Short-eared Owl on Wednesday, 2/26/03. At 5:30p, while looking for a skimmer that I thought I saw skimming in Pond A1, I saw the owl from the trail between the forebay and Pond A1. It was flapping erratically over the capped landfill, west of Byxbee Park. I got a 15 second view, then hoofed it back to the bleachers. I couldn't refind it! At 5:50p, I relocated it foraging along the Charleston Slough trail. Got some good scope views. It crossed the slough and made a few passes over the largest vegetated island in the slough when I lost track of it, again. I refound it perched on a white post (PVC pipe?) on the levee separating Charleston Slough and Pond A1. The post has blue flagging tape tied to it and the post appears to be duct-taped to a red & white metal fence post. This could be a favored perch and worth checking. It watched the gulls flying by. Then it took off across Pond A1 toward Shoreline Lake. It foraged along the sloping edge of the pond north of Shoreline Park. I lost sight of it at 6:00p when it disappeared into the dried fennel(?) brush approx. halfway along this edge of the pond. I was beginning to think that there really wasn't a Short-eared Owl in the area and that people must have been mis-IDing harriers. Alternately, I thought that this must be one of the more unreliable birds around. It's funny how one's perspective changes having seen the bird.... 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]]