From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Tue Jun 24 16:46:41 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5ONgQGM021920 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m01.mx.aol.com (imo-m01.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.4]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5ONfE8b021877 for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36.3.) id t.67.13ac9147 (24895) for <[[email protected]]>; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:40:59 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] County birding 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, First stop this morning for Frank Vanslager and I was the northern portion of Ed Levin County Park where we were concerned to find the they are in the process of building a Dog Park northeast of Sandy Wool Lake below the Eucalyptus trees (where we often find the first Rufous Hummingbirds of the year and where Frank and I had a Calliope Hummingbird a couple years ago). There were no "notable" birds in this portion of the park. In the Elm Grove Picnic Area we saw many BULLOCK'S ORIOLES (literally all over this area of the park), a BARN OWL, a singing PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, a heard only ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, a WESTERN KINGBIRD and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. After a quick trip to the southern portion of Ed Levin County Park we went to the Coyote Creek Field Station "Waterbird Pond" where we saw a GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 14 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and three WILSON'S PHALAROPES. A front only view of an adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON standing tall in the middle of the pond with a bit more white on the top of it's head then we are used to seeing caused some, if all to brief, excitement as to an "improbable." A brief stop at the Jubilee Christian Center to scan Arzino Ranch resulted in a couple BURROWING OWLS and a flock of six young RING-NECKED PHEASANTS (a gorgeous adult male was also seen running across the field a short distance away). Our last stop of the morning was at the Environmental Education Center which provided a distant view of an adult PEREGRINE FALCON (on a power tower alongside the entrance road) as well as of a pair of BLACK SKIMMERS (on the first island in Salt Pond A16). We really first became aware of the BLSKs when one of the Skimmers became aggressive toward two people running on the dike. This, of course, piqued our curiosity as to the reason for it's action. Upon closer examination we found that there was at least one tiny young BLSK was being shaded by the other parent. Take care, Bob Reiling, 4:44 PM, 6/24/03 _______________________________________________ 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]]