From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat May 24 22:08:19 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4P56PaA016576 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 24 May 2003 22:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4P55efF016539 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 24 May 2003 22:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from KrisDesktop (adsl-64-169-18-243.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.18.243]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4P55csX000344 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 25 May 2003 00:05:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]> To: "South Bay Birders" <[[email protected]]> Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 22:05:34 -0700 Message-ID: <041f01c3227b$4625f3c0$6501a8c0@KrisDesktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h4P55efF016539 Subject: [SBB] Ibis & Chat continue at Llagas Creek 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]] Hello All: This afternoon, my dad and I decided to look for the Yellow-breasted Chat along Llagas Creek, off Bloomfield Road (thanks to those who provided directions! They worked perfectly.) We arrived about 3pm. We heard a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT after walking a little ways up the west levee, and heard another further along near the ponds, but saw neither. We did manage to see a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, GREEN HERON, BULLOCKS ORIOLES, and lots of CLIFF SWALLOWS. In the ponds, we were able to refind the WHITE-FACED IBIS found May 21 by "birdermom" Jean Myers. Like Jean, I could see its back, neck, wing colors well, despite looking into the sun, but did not see the leg color or any sign of white around its face. We didn't get as close as Jean had, and it did seem shy of humans. I don't know how the ponds are numbered (ah! Another map for Kendrick's website!), but the Ibis was first in the right hand pond closest to the levee, then in the second set of ponds to the left of the levee (if you are walking out from Bloomfield R.), the right hand pond. Then it flew out and over toward the creek, headed north. [There seemed to be 4 ponds that had water, in sets of two: 2 close to the main levee, two further out-- one looking as if it had brown grass in it but in fact it had water. I did not walk beyond those 4 in either direction, so perhaps there are more wet ones.] We found the same list of ducks/birds as Bill Bousman found on May 22: GADWALL, MALLARD (many), CINNAMON TEAL, and NORTHERN SHOVELER (one male only). I also saw a pair of NORTHERN PINTAIL hidden in the reeds. The Cinnamon Teal were one pair that kept together and maybe 3-5 males. We saw three Killdeer, 50+ Black-necked Stilts and 20-30 American Avocets. One pair of Stilts played the broken-wing routine, so I assume they had a nest? No Spotted Sandpiper. Since we weren't quite ready to go home, we made a detour past Coyote Lake, where I had never been. We enjoyed a family of 4 YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIES around the first picnic area, along with two WESTERN BLUEBIRDS. At the far end of the lake by the dam, we found four kinds of swallows: NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED (nesting in the little holes in the spillway; we watched one try to fit a 12" stick into the hole, but the stick, of course, was way too wide, so it was pretty funny; the swallow actually did try to turn in it three different directions to get it to fit, but gave up); TREE, VIOLET-GREEN and CLIFF. We saw one CASPIAN TERN, two FORSTER'S TERNS, one BELTED KINGFISHER, ACORN WOODPECKERS, a pair of WOOD DUCKS, and an ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER. Question: Birding at the Bottom of the Bay says that Rock Wrens and Rufous-crowned Sparrows are seen on the rocks near the dam. Is that true? Even at 7pm there were lots of people there, fishing, and it did not seem conducive to birds living there. Driving out, we passed a Bobcat on the road. Happy Memorial Day! Kris Olson _______________________________________________ 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]]