From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Jul 7 14:16:02 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h67LDUGS027248 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h67LD28b027210 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id t.185.1da37391 (2612) for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:12:59 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:12:59 EDT To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Least Terns, Salt Pond A2E X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ 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 check out the mouth of Stevens Creek. On the way we noted that there were at least two very small Terns on the wooden walkway in Salt Pond A2E (just north of Crittenden Marsh). We finally decided to continue on to bay hoping we would get better looks later on our way out. The mouth of the creek had large numbers of shorebirds including hundreds of "peeps" (most if not all WESTERN SANDPIPERS), BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS (alternate and basic plumage), WILLETS, a few LONG-BILLED CURLEWS, FORSTER'S TERNS and a few Gulls. On our way back past Salt Pond A2E we now noted that we had three alternate plumaged LEAST TERNS on the walkway (light gray backs and all yellow-orange bills). We subsequently got excellent views of one of the LETE as it flew nearby. (This is one day earlier than MY earliest previous Santa Clara County sighting.) We then decided to check out the area in Milpitas where the possible Eurasian Collard-Dove was seen. No joy there and so we quickly headed to the Coyote Creek Field Station Waterbird Pond where we had a small flock of Western Sandpipers, a small flock of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS (with their constant soft chatter as they fed), 12 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, several other Gulls (didn't bother to ID as none looked interesting), a couple Long-billed Curlews and one adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON. Take care, Bob Reiling, 2:15 PM, 7/7/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]