From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jan 2 17:37:05 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h031YJPM002275 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (rtjones.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.19.30]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h031XX3Y002234 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:33:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-5n) id RAA60826 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:33:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:33:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Swamp Sparrow continues 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]] All, I headed out to the Palo Alto Baylands for the high tide at mid-day today. The tide made it into the bottom half of the "S" on the post, which was quite decent. I finally found the SWAMP SPARROW after the tide was already heading back out. Again the bird's call alerted me to its presence before it popped up briefly just off the airport levee. Once again the bird was well past the last Coyote bush on the east side of the path. On Tuesday it was just past the very last white pole in the marsh; today it was not quite that far, being right next to the dike at the third white pole in from the end (the short pole two poles closer than the farthest pole). All three common rails were also heard here and a BROWN PELICAN was hunting over the marsh. At the old yacht harbor I saw the breeding plumaged BONAPARTE'S GULL in with the flock. This bird was photographed previously at the nearby Water Pollution Control Plant (thanks Deborah!). There was not even a white fleck in this bird's hood - remarkable! An immature PEREGRINE FALCON was atop the Elwell Court tower and another PEREGRINE FALCON was spotted by Pete LaTourrette at the Baylands. Shoreline Lake had 137+ SURF SCOTERS and the male BARROW'S x COMMON GOLDENEYE but I could not find the pure male Barrow's Goldeneye. Mike Rogers _______________________________________________ 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]]