From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed May 28 10:37:52 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4SHZJaA023265 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.arc.nasa.gov (merlin.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.219.21]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4SHXvfF023209 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV by merlin.ARC.NASA.GOV (PMDF V6.2 #30665) id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:33:55 -0700 (PDT) From: [[email protected]] To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Cc: [[email protected]] Subject: [SBB] - 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]] Folks: On Monday, 5/26/2003, I visited Llagas Creek above Bloomfield Road at sunrise, about 0550 hrs, to see if an early visit might reveal any information on the local bitterns. I had no success with this endeavor. A GREEN HERON and a singing YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT were the only notable birds. I then covered the Coyote Creek Bike Trail from the Ogier Avenue ponds to the upper end of the Parkway Lakes by bike, hopeing for the unexpected. Again, not much more than the usual kinds of birds. A GREEN HERON was over the Parkways Lakes. I had two groups of two male WOOD DUCKS in two areas in the Ogier Avenue ponds and another set of two males where the bike trail crosses at a ford upstream of the gallery forest segment south of Metcalf Road. A single COMMON MOORHEN was at the Coyote percolation ponds. A couple of MARSH WRENS were singing, one of the few places they nest away from the South Bay edge. (None have been along Llagas Creek in my recent trips). The resident male GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE was singing from the cottonwood at the southern tip of the peninsula at Parkway Lakes. By the way, Mark Paxton has recounted a bit of the history of the ponds west of the levee along Llagas Creek above Bloomfield. The 15' Morgan Hill topo from 1941 shows this area as still an extensive freshwater marsh. At some point the city of Gilroy diked the marsh and attempted to use the ponds as part of their sewage treatment. This effort failed and the ponds that we see along the levee are abandoned and are not a part of the plant's sewage treatment. Bill _______________________________________________ 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]]