From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Jan 15 11:12:26 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0FJ8x4p008982 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0FJ8ASE008942 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.2 #30665) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:08:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:08:07 -0800 (PST) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]], [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii cc: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] - 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]] Folks: I apologize for the delay of some of the earlier observations that follow. On Friday, 1/10/2003, I visited Chesbro Reservoir at sunrise, but there was no sun, just rain. The best I could do for WOOD DUCKS was a single pair and there were also two female/immature COMMON MERGANSERS. At Calero Reservoir, the most of the good birds have already been described by Mike Rogers. After scoping the reservoir with Mike, I walked around the west shore to the further dam, where I could look up Oak and Cherry Coves. The RED-NECKED GREBE was most of the way up Cherry Cove, along with four male and three female SURF SCOTERS. A SPOTTED SANDPIPER was along the western shore. I then stopped by Edenvale Garden Park and found the immature WHITE-THROATED SPARROW with the other sparrows. An intergrade NORTHERN FLICKER was active there. This bird had red wing/tail color, red malar marks, a gray throat, a brown forecrown, but the rear crown was gray and there was a red nuchal crescent. About noon, I tromped out to Salt A10 along Alviso Slough. There was no sign of Red Phalaropes on A10 or A11. Five RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS was the best I could muster. On Saturday, 1/11/2003, I found a male BLUE-WINGED TEAL in the north pond of the Palo Alto FCB on a brief visit. On Monday, 1/13/2003, I took a New Jersey birder, Ryan Bakelaar, and a friend on a Panoche Valley trip. We made a brief stop in the morning fog at the Coyote Creek GC club house and saw two male GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES and the PACIFIC LOON, still in the pond there. By the time we reached Paicines Reservoir we were in sun and had excellent viewing. On the reservoir was an immature ROSS'S GOOSE associating with American Wigeon. In the trees and poles above reservoir were two adult BALD EAGLES and a FERRUGINOUS HAWK. (Later, driving up the valley from Paicines, we saw an adult BALD EAGLE flying up the creek and this was likely one of the reservoir birds.) In the ruderal growth at the south end of the reservoir we saw a GREATER ROADRUNNER and a CASSIN'S KINGBIRD. Leaving Paicines, we had two more GREATER ROADRUNNERS at 6.1 miles. PHAINOPEPLA were found from Willow Springs Ranch (19.0 miles) to Summit Ranch and we totaled four males and three females. In Panoche Valley, about 0.9 miles before the junction, we had MOUNTAIN PLOVER to the left (east) of the road. Most were well out in the fields, but a half dozen were within 15-30 m of the road (one had an aluminum band on its left leg). I counted 171 birds in the field while Ryan had another group of 40 flying further off. We took the New Idria Road up to the Griswold Hills. One of the mixed LARK SPARROW/SAVANNAH SPARROW flocks near some ranch houses included a single VESPER SPARROW. After turning around, we returned to the junction and took J1 towards the Central Valley. East of Shotgun Pass we ran into our first MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS, counting about 10 below the pass. Then, driving into Fresno County we found 10-20 more MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS--pretty gorgeous birds. We ended the trip with one more GREATER ROADRUNNER at the retention dam. Surprising for a Panoche trip was that we didn't see Ferruginous Hawk or Prairie Falcon (no complaints, 'though). Yesterday, 1/14/2003, Ryan and I birded Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties for the most part. We finished the day looking for and finding the strip mall queen--the RUSTY BLACKBIRD at Lawrence and El Camino. We then made a sunset trip to the Arzino Ranch and saw the small form (Cackling) CANADA GOOSE mentioned by Mike Mammoser, but only three BURROWING OWLS. Bill _______________________________________________ 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]]