From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jan 28 14:24:58 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0SMMN50015652 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:22:23 -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 h0SMLvSE015615 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrogers@localhost) by rtjones.nas.nasa.gov (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3/NAS 8.9.3-5n) id OAA16806 for [[email protected]]; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:21:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:21:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Michael M. Rogers" <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] Charleston Rd marsh 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 walked around the Charleston Road Marsh off Shoreline Blvd this morning 1/28/03, hoping for a Northern Waterthrush - no luck with this, but the health of the marsh is attested to by the number of waterbirds there: 1 GREAT EGRET, 3 SNOWY EGRETS, 1 GREEN HERON, 5 MALLARDS, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, and a female BELTED KINGFISHER. Other birds of note included a pair of DARK-EYED JUNCOS, an immature male TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, a HERMIT THRUSH, and 25+ AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. In the breeding bird department, I had a female ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD adding to, and incubating, a nest in a pine tree and a female LESSER GOLDFINCH dismantling a used nest from last year and flying across the marsh with her booty. Our earliest breeding bird atlas nest-building records for this species are from late March, so this would be two months early! Still, the bird made a determined effort to extract as much material as possible from the old nest and then flew away with the whole lot - hard to imagine what else she was up to besides building a nest elsewhere. 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]]