From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Jan 15 20:00:30 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0G3vY4q016325 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11402.mail.yahoo.com (web11402.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.232]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with SMTP id h0G3v3SE016285 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:57:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from [69.3.144.244] by web11402.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:57:02 PST Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:57:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jack Cole <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] Panoche Valley 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]] Today, Wednesday, Ed Frost and I made our 16th annual visit to Panoche Valley. Highlights are as follows. Picenes Reservoir produced the Bald Eagle perched in its usual spot at the far end, and also Ed Gustafson and two friends. No Roadrunners or Kingbirds were seen. About .7 of a mile this side of the Panoche Inn, 25 Mountain Plovers were close to the road on the left side. Along Panoche Road, a single Ferruginous Hawk was on a telephone pole, giving us excellent looks through our open sun roof. A lone Vesper Sparrow was along the dirt road with the dip in it that starts at the second curve on Penoche Road past the junction with Little Panoche Road. A Merlin was in the trees on the right side of the road before the school house corner. We were surprised to see the restoration project underway at what we call the Abandoned Ranch. At Mercy Hot Springs we located the owner (Larry?) and requested permission to bird the property. As usual he graciously gave his concent, and thanked us for asking. He showed us the progress on restoring the small chapel. We did not see the expected Barn Owls, but did see three Long-eared Owls in the tamarisk trees. I debated about reporting these birds, because some people think that they could be chased off from over-zealous birders. My feeling is that with proper ediquette and caution, other should be permitted to see these very special birds. A lone Mountain Bluebird was along the BLM road, and 6-8 more were in the field just before the large barn and windmill as we continued east (north?) along Little Panoche Road. Of interest near the Hot Springs was a single Tri-colored Blackbird in a flock of about 100 Brewer's Blackbirds and Starlings. It was also neat to hear Say's Phoebe's and Loggerhead Shrike's calling. A singing California Thrasher was near the old buildings at Mercy Hot Springs. We saw or heard a total of 72 species. Jack Cole and Ed Frost --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now _______________________________________________ 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]]