From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Mar 30 10:20:06 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.8/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2UIGuit018459 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:16:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgw2a.lmco.com (mailgw2a.lmco.com [192.91.147.7]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.8/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2UIG7ZQ018412 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw2a.lmco.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2UIG5m15421 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:16:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.lmco.com by lmco.com (PMDF V6.1-1 #40643) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:16:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from EMSS01I00.us.lmco.com ([129.197.181.70]) by lmco.com (PMDF V6.1-1 #40643) [[email protected]]; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:16:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by EMSS01I00.us.lmco.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:16:03 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:15:56 -0800 From: "Miller, Steve E" <[[email protected]]> To: "'sbbirds'" <[[email protected]]> Message-id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [SBB] Shorebirds staging at Baylands X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1+ 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]] Hello All: On Saturday evening (3/30), I ventured to Baylands. The tide was low but I decided to scope from the end of the boardwalk. Deb Bartons was taping the locations of the new interpretive signs going up. She says they will be installed soon. Many local birders contributed to this effort. I digress. While the birds were very distant (possibly even outside the county), there were a very large number of calidrids feeding out there. I was not able to resolve individuals to species but I estimated approximately 60,000 individuals in a line about 2 miles long. In previous studies I have done here, 95% will be WESTERN SANDPIPER. This should be rechecked on a rising tide. A pair of COMMON RAVENS was occupying the nest two power towers south of the boardwalk. At dusk (6:15 pm) I went over to Byxbee Park where 4 CLAPPER RAILS were calling. I hiked to the top of the mountain and (at 6:24 pm) observed 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS foraging over the flood control basin. About 250 BONAPARTES GULLS flew out of the sewage plant. Steve Miller _______________________________________________ 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]]