From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jan 14 16:12:24 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0F09h4q024035 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com (imo-d03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.35]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0F09FSE023995 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id t.21.2a2d3804 (3842) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:09:02 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:09:01 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10634 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] County birding 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, This morning Frank Vanslager and I decided to "git some goodies while the gittens good." First stop was at Calero Reservoir where we quickly found the RED-NECKED GREBE (it was west of the boat ramp near one of the speed control buoys). Frank just as quickly spotted the adult BALD EAGLE but it managed to fly before I could get on it. Luckily he was able to refind the bird on the far western shore just south of the main dam (in a bare tree perhaps 30 feet above water). A SPOTTED SANDPIPER was in the rocky area on the north shore just south of some picnic tables, a SAY'S PHOEBE was a bit further west while a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was on the fence a couple hundred yards west of the of the first dam. GOLDEN EAGLES were on the skyline across from the boat launch and on the power towers northwest of the reservoir (total of three). We then went to the mouth of Stevens Creek where Frank managed to find a solitary RED KNOT. This bird was atypical in that it was hanging back from the water line with a small group of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. Unfortunately we were unable to locate the (a) Pacific Golden-Plover among the dozens of Plovers there and a later check of the mitigation pond also proved futile (where did it go?). We did manage to pick out a couple SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS (these were the only Dowitchers seen at the creek mouth). All of the Dowitchers identified in the Stevens Creek Mitigation Pond were LONG-BILLED. I might add that earlier on we had a very dark adult RED-TAILED HAWK with a "normally colored" western Red-tailed Hawk on one of the power towers. From below the bird initially appeared to have a white tail but when it flew the upper surface of the tail was rufous. Take care, Bob Reiling, 4:08 PM, 1/14/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]