From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Jan 20 17:50:53 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0L1n84s013783 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0L1mXSE013748 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from miata (12-234-62-156.client.attbi.com[12.234.62.156]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <2003012101483100100hr2mle>; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:48:31 +0000 Message-ID: <090301c2c0ee$d55ebb60$[[email protected]]> From: "Matthew O'Brien" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:45:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1 Subject: [SBB] Panoche Valley on Martin Luther King Day 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]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h0L1n84s013783 Had an excellent day for weather and birds on Monday driving down to New Idria Mine through Paicines and the Panoche Valley. While there was fog in the valley down to Hollister and fog in the San Joaquin Valley, the Panoche Valley was sunny, warm and without wind, with the snow-covered Sierra Nevada visible to the east. At Paicines Reservoir, two BALD EAGLES were in the oak trees on the far side of the lake. A GREATER ROADRUNNER was catching insects below the parking area near the willows. We also saw a GREAT EGRET swallowing a good sized rat after repeatedly dipping (washing?) it in the water at the edge of the lake. There was a flock of perhaps 15 COMMON MERGANSERS on the lake. Driving over the hills to the Panoche Valley, we first saw two GOLDEN EAGLES north of the road in a power tower, then a distant oak tree. We had one PHAINOPEPLA and a PRARIE FALCON in the oak trees just before Summit Ranch. Entering the valley before the Little Panoche junction, there was a second PRAIRIE FALCON in the field about 70 years off the road to the north. Coming back down from New Idria Mine, we first saw a GOLDEN EAGLE on a hillside east of the road, then a large (~120) flock of LONG-BILLED CURLEWS covering a hillside. _______________________________________________ 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]]